So, as time goes by for Final Fantasy's first real fighting game, people start looking into the code. And, when you look into the code, you can find some interesting things.
Like Cosmos was going to be playable.
While there is no playable model, or even text, three in game portraits are assigned to her. If they are ever summoned, they appear as darkened Zidane portraits, but the coding indicates the are actually Cosmos'.
And in the second game, Aerith has slightly more coding than you would expect. She has outfit and weapon data and you can hack her to appear in quick battle, but the game will crash once the battle loads. Admittedly, this may be necessary for her to be an assist, but it is interesting...
Who would you like to have seen in Dissidia?
((I would like to have seen Final Fantasy VI's Cyan.))
I'm really excited. I LOVE video game music, especially the Final Fantasy music. After Elite Beat Agents, I'll give rhythm games a shot. And LOCKE is in it. VI and VII are my favorite FF's (I'm going to try to play all of them.) Cyan is my favorite, but SE FINALLY gives VI some love. (It and IX were the only non NES games kept from gaining extra characters. VI has the largest cast in FF history. They couldn't pick ONE person to add? Especially weird since Locke was almost put in the original Dissidia instead of Terra. But then they realized Cosmos needed some more girls non sword users.) Anyway, this is good news. SE decided to localize, and it's the MUSIC.
I've talked about DLC before. When I did, I mentioned that SE had basically just found out DLC existed. The previous DLC content (not including their MMO's) consisted of alternate costumes for Dissidia. When Final Fantasy XIII-2 was announced, they also announced there would be some DLC for the game.
Alright, so the game is released, people unlock all the endings and.... it ends on a To Be Continued. I'll note that they did register a XIII-3 trademark a few months before the game was released, and they claimed it was to pre empt any filings, but it's easy to assume they were lying after that ending. But there is one thing that really bugs me.
Like I said, they just found out about DLC. Their first foray into DLC was in Dissidia 012. The DLC consisted of extra costumes and songs on top of their already expanded in game content. However, the newest costumes and songs were only available if you paid. A large number was released in Japan, a lesser amount was brought over to the US (I don't know why, some of those would have been great! Look!)
And that is fair enough. The original game only had 2 sets of costumes, default and alternate. While it was annoying some of it was tied into preorders and so on over here (I only got KH Cloud, which is fine. I love that outfit) it was hard to get all of it before, and then SE just stopped bringing the costumes over even though they had already been made.
Then we get to XIII-2. It ends on a complete cliffhanger, In fact, we see Lightning turn to Crystal on Valhalla, Serah dies, and it's all confusion (even more so for me since I haven't played the game, but I have heard about this) Now, before the game was released they did talk a bit about DLC. There would be costumes (Pre order based. I HATE those.) and then they talked about a Sazh episode. Now, that makes sort of sense for me. It would probably be a minor or pointless side story. Don't get me wrong, I love Sazh I'm annoyed it wasn't in the full release, but it could have been cut but instead it's DLC. Unless Sazh ended up actively involved with the plot and changed it due to him being there then DLC works. It fills us in with some minor details, some fanservice, but won't cause alot of headaches if we miss it. There is another DLC, the coliseum battles between Serah, Noel and various monsters so that you can catch the monsters and use them later. Okay, I can see how that could be used. I would like to have it in there already, but it works.
It's the last piece of DLC that I've heard about that makes me mad. LIGHTNING'S STORY is going to be DLC. I don't know if it will cover her side of what happened in XIII-2 or it will be a continuation of the game, but that is a MAJOR part of the plot and it SHOULD have been put in the game. Other games switch players around all the time. In fact, Final Fantasy has done it before!
So, why did this have to be DLC? If it's a side story, it's probably going to explain a HECK of a lot. If it's a continuation of the story, then that SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FINAL RELEASE. And then they're going to do it again with Theathrythm, it's getting some Day 1 DLC of songs that could probably have actually been on the cart. Unless they are giving it away for free, it's a complete rip off.
Game companies, clean up your act. It's not just Square Enix who does this.
DLC can be a VERY wonderful thing, as long as you are NOT cutting things out of the actual release and/or restricting it only to people who buy it new. I'm sure it brings in a lot of money now, but people are getting sick of it. Sooner or later, that revenue stream will dry up, and people will stop buying the games.
Please, just give us the whole game. You may have to delay it, but I'd rather pay sixty for it later then pay 100 dollars in installments for something I'm not even sure I own.
AKA deleted content: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep part 2.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Dissidia Duodecim would both come out at about the same time. And Square Enix decided that they would need to make a decision.
Which game would star Laguna Loire?
Eventually, they decided to go with Dissidia and Laguna was cut some time before Birth By Sleeps release (As of this writing, no data has been found in the game that deals with Laguna. However, this tidbit was revealed in the Birth By Sleep Ultimania)
That being said, from what was in Dissidia (I have yet to play FF8) Laguna would make a nice eventual addition. A.V. Kennedy does a nice job voicing him (which is great, as far as I can tell, this is his first time doing anything besides background voices and he gets a big character in a big Square Enix release. GO A.V. KENNEDY!) (cough) and the character is fantastic. Laguna is kind, funny, absentminded, interested in people, likes girls (but not in a pervy way), a perfect gentleman, and can MORE then keep up with the rest of Cosmos and Chaos' warriors despite having absolutely no magic.
In fact, he's the only Cosmos warrior who doesn't have at least one magic spell. Tidus has a magic HP attack, Tifa has Ice, Cloud has Fire, Jecht has laser beams from his eyes (and transforms into SIN), and... all Laguna gets is his weapons turning gold which is really just Leon and Company lending their strength.
With Dream Drop Distance coming up, and at least considered worlds confirmed to be in the roster, maybe we can see some considered heroes?
After all, he was more then considered for Birth By Sleep, he had his own plot line. He was to run the Mirage Arena. We don't know anything other then that, but judging from Dissidia (And FF8, which I can't comment on) it would have been interesting. Especially considering what he could have happened if he interacted with Aqua.
As for future released, we don't know. But I would LOVE to have him show up again.
