Soulcalibur IV is hilarious. It isn’t just the character-creation tool's astounding capacity for spreading mirth or the fact that you can watch a bi-pedal lizard beat a gimp unconscious with an enormous leg of lam. It’s the detailed story behind every character in the game that’s so funny. Darth Vader, in a feat of fan-fictioneering to make even the most base deviantART dweller blush, has a discernable reason for lightsabering folks in the 16th century. You can’t help but laugh. This is why the existence of Dissidia: Final Fantasy concerns me. We have, given recent events, been discussing how Final Fantasy affects gamers’ minds at length here at 61FPS. If the discussion has proven anything, it’s that folks take their Final Fantasy very, very seriously. Since Dissidia’s narrative leaps of logic have the potential to be even more comical than Soulcalibur’s, what is going to happen in the aftermath of its release?
The answer is internet riots. Trashcans will be thrown through digital windows. Funny pictures of cars will be turned over in the streets. Forum moderators will distribute ban-beatings across the land.
Now that DKS3713 has come and gone, people have finally gotten to play Dissidia and it sounds, well, strange. An odd mix of Power Stone and Star Ocean in play, wanton Nomura-fetishism in presentation. These fresh screens, from Gamespot Japan, show that, yes, Dissidia is a good looking PSP title but, at the same time, Square-Enix has managed to make its characters look even more ridiculous.
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