I really enjoyed the intro Simo posted, even if I can't understand not 2% of what they say I can guess what it means.

I just don't see why use chocobos in a fight when you have flying machines with guns ... But I won't complain since the chocobos looked really cool in that armor.

Melee combat mostly, plus it looked like they were using Nephicite to create a barrier over the city to protect it from any air attacks.

Speaking of Chocobos, here's a short clip from Bebpo at Gaming-Age controlling a Chocobo. You also get a sample of the "Chocobo Theme" in the clip too:
http://www.playsyde.com/leech_2280_en.html

So FFXII is going to coincide with the release of PS3, or what.

Actually, I was talking about the song as a stand alone entity, but whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out exactly how I imagine it, however. That's what happened for "Truth". I thought to myself "Wow, it sounds like you're surrounded by an infinite white expanse." And a few months later when I played the game, BAM, there it was.

that sucks so much monkeys ass !!!

it's like the game has been delayed for two years and now Square is like "shit we forgot the translation"

But i sense commercial purpouses behind all that ... i think i have a 6th sense :cow:

Anyone here imported original from Japan?

I'm actually somewhat surprised they're pushing it to November along with the PS3.

I downloaded it. It's done now, but of course, I can't understand a much of it. Somehow, I've made my way out into the town. After a few minutes of figuring out what does what, The battle system seems fairly straightforward, although I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface, because I can't read any of the menus.

The voice acting is top-notch, and the graphcis seem very sharp, nice textures and character models. The music has been great so far. What's really nice is the ability to pan the camera around and look wherever you want. The lack of this ability was a fatal flaw in FFX, IMO.

I really wish that I could read Japanese, because I really can't get any more out of this. Well, it's nice to have anyway.

The Strike of the Blade is fantastic!!!

It would be a good way for the PS3 to be all like "Hey, check it: BOOSTED GRAPHICS & SOUND! Booyah!

Probably a combination of PR and getting Translation done with.

I did, but it won't be here until next week sometime.

Is it just me or does Penelo's Theme sound really familiar. The second part is obviously a variation of one of those FF12 themes but I'm sure I've heard the first part elsewhere before. At first I thought it would be Nobunaga's Ambition, but it's not...

Son of a BITCH.

Somebody mentioned 2 pages back that Penelo's Theme was originally an early track for FF Tactics that didn't make it into the game, so perhaps that's why it's familiar?

New CG FMV, again from maskrider and BlimBlim at Gaming-Age/PlaySyde:
http://www.playsyde.com/leech_2284_en.html

No real spoilers.

Maskrider is really Felix M.C. Li. He have the biggest collection of his favourite games like Silent Hill or Shadow Hearts I had ever seen. Besides his PC is just:

# Intel Pentium 4 3GHz 800MHz FSB w/Cooler Master Jet 4 Heatsink/Fan kit
# ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
# 1GB Kingston PC3200 DDR SDRAM
# 2theMax HE550 3xIO 660W Power Supply
# ATI RADEON 9800 PRO
# E-MU 1212m Digital Audio System
# AverMedia EZ DVD Maker Gold (Philips SAA7130 based PCTV card)
# Hitachi T7K250 250G SATA II x 2
# Seagate 7200.7 160G ATA inside Sarotech USB 2.0 Hardbox
# Acer Ferrari F-20 20" LCD Monitor
# Microsoft Natural MultiMedia Keyboard
# Logitech MX518 Mouse
# Canon CanoScan D1250U2
# Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB 2.0 hardware MPEG-2 encoder

Well he like to make screen caps. He was helping me with my Shadow of the Colossus site. Great man!!

Yep I know. :) I usually check out his site for some SH caps and images of the various covers and whatnot.

Yeah hes one golden man =D. Doh I can't get FF XII Cover Scan anywhere =(

Have you tried asking maskrider? I can drop a PM to him over at GAF if you like?

No I haven't you can try =) But it need to be 1200 or 600 DPI scan resized to 300 DPI just like he did ICO JAP scan =). Thanks!!

I'm pretty much filling my media player with much FFXII tracks. Road of Hope from the Symphonic Tracks, East Darmasca Desert, and The Strike of the Blade are amongst my favorite tracks.

Oh, great. Just what we need, people ripping off one of the most anticipated games ever.

I fully intend on buying a copy when it comes out here, at which point I won't need the Japanese copy any more. Besides, it's not like they actually lost any money.

True, but by the time it's released out of japan(November) you could of completed it not knowing japanese.

I don't have the patience for foreign material myself, as much as I'd love to involve myself with the Sakura Taisen series, if it isn't in english I'll pretty much give it up.

You still have quite a long wait. Gamefaqs will probably have a translation/guide up within a month.

I do intend WILL PREORDER a copy come October-ish, praying that the November release date holds true. Yes, Elixir, there's quite a few Japanese games that I'd love to try as well, but due to the obvious language barrier, very very few of these keep my attention span for an adequate time to complete the game, unless the concept is quite elementary - a few sports/competition games for example. Something with the likes of an RPG requires utmost patience to try everything out and talk to every NPC in hopes of progressing in a foreign language video game.

I don't usually bother with japanese games that aren't pretty straight foward. You have the easy, understandable games which are in japanese but that's irrelevant.

Shooting games, fighting games, arcade games. Hell, even arcade games can be confusing - the japanese copy of Taiko no Tatsujin has traditional horizontal japanese bars and nothing's translated. I can only remember what I've discovered through trial and error.

The only RPG in japanese I own is Chrono Trigger, and even I haven't completed it. It just isn't the same. Apparently XII isn't as startling enough to complete through even though the language barrier is there.