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Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy’s Second Tier Stars
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Lightning, The Warrior of Light, and Cloud are some of the main characters in Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy. Snow is in the musical spinoff too as an unlockable sub-character. You can free Snow and other secondary stars like Minwu and Seifer by collecting crystal fragments.
Here’s all of the sub-characters in Theatrhythm. The Nintendo 3DS game comes out in Japan on February 16.
Dancing Mad With Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy
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Thanks to a demo for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, I have "Dancing Mad" stuck in my head. The downloadable demo, now available on the Nintendo eShop in Japan, only includes the Final Fantasy VI boss battle melody.
A brief tutorial explains the three kinds of notes:
Red – tap the screen
Yellow: swipe in that direction
Green: hold down until the next green note
Notes move towards one of the four characters and hitting them makes that character slash their weapon at the air. If your tap is perfectly on beat you’ll score a critical attack. Miss a note and the lead character takes damage.
While the demo only had one song, there were three difficulty modes. The first is a cakewalk and in the middle you can summon Shiva who attacks with Diamond Dust if you get all of the notes in the feature zone right. She’s new, the Tokyo Game Show only had Ifrit. Ramuh is also in the demo and he shocks enemies with lightning. The enemies change from Ultros to a Bomb to a Cactuar, a Behemonth, and Deathgaze if you’re good enough. Level two upped the tempo and variety of notes adding in more holds. Level three took a couple of tries to beat with notes flying across the screen. Like other demos, the Theatrhythm demo is limited to 30 plays.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Second Demo and Download Content Planned
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One of the first 3DS demos is getting a sequel. In an interview in this week's issue of Weekly Famitsu, Square Enix producer Tetsuya Nomura revealed that a second demo for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is being planned for release in early February. The demo will consist of two songs, said Nomura.
While Nomura did not share a specific date, Theatrhythm sees release on February 16, so the demo will presumably be released before then.
Nomura also confirmed with Famitsu that Square Enix will release downloadable songs for the game following release. The hope is that players are able to play the game for a long time. He did not say if the content will be paid or free.
Tetsuya Nomura, famed character designer for many of the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games, said previously that Theatrhythm Final Fantasy would include DLC, but now there is tangible proof.
The Japanese box confirms that there will be paid DLC, as well as evidence of something called the Nintendo Network.
This is all news regarding the Japanese release of the game, but it's a fair assumption that the North American version will have comparable features.
For more about the easy to spell Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (I didn't have to look up how to spell Theatrhythm because it's such a normal word), check out Tim Turi's hands-on time with the game here.
Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy’s First Batch Of DLC Will Be These 8 Songs
The first batch of DLC, Famitsu reveals, will be available at launch. Japanese players will be able to download these 8 additional songs, each one priced at 150 yen (about $2):
Battle stage songs:
Final Fantasy II: Battle Scene 1
Final Fantasy IV: The Final Battle
Final Fantasy IX: Fighters of the Crystal
Final Fantasy XIII: Fighting Fate
Field stage songs:
Final Fantasy V: Seeking the Light
Final Fantasy VII: Cosmo Canyon
Final Fantasy VIII: Ride On
Final Fantasy X: Someday the Dream Will End
That’s a total of 1,200 yen (about $15.60) for all 8 tracks. Square Enix will release new downloadable songs for Theatrhythm every 2-3 weeks. These songs won’t be limited to just the mainline numbered games.
Love Plus, Theatrhythm and Binary Domain Score 10s in Famitsu
New Love Plus (3DS): 10, 10, 9, 9 Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (3DS): 10, 9, 9, 8
Tekken 3D Prime Edition (3DS): 8, 8, 8, 8
Good People Die (3DS/Vita): 9, 8, 9, 8
Samurai Warriors 3Z Special (PSP): 8, 8, 8, 7
Binary Domain (PS3/X360): 10, 9, 9, 7
WRC 2 FIA World Rally Championship (PS3/X360): 7, 7, 8, 6
The Story Of Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Begins On The DS
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Ichiro Hazama, producer of Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, spoke with Satoru Iwata about his first Final Fantasy experience. Since game consoles weren’t allowed in his house, Hazama played video games when he went to a friend’s house. When he was living on his own, Hazama saved up money to buy a Super Famicom and Final Fantasy VI. He was amazed by the opening scene of Magitek Armor walking through a video. Hazama likened it to something out of a movie.
Hazama would later work on a Final Fantasy movie. He was on the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children staff and while working with Tetsuya Nomura, Hazama came up with the idea for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy. He thought about creating the game for the Nintendo DS, but the project was shelved due to technical limitations of the DS.
When he saw the Nintendo 3DS, Hazama thought now is the time and asked developer indieszero to finalize the plan. With the design ready, Hazama brought the plan to Nomura who gave it a greenlight on the same day.
While Theatrhyhtm: Final Fantasy was developed in secret, fans made an impact on the game’s song list via Square Enix Members questionnaires that asked fans what their favorite Final Fantasy song was. Hazama wouldn’t tell Iwata exactly how many songs are in Theatrhythm, but said there are over 70.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Song Appears in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
The Theatrhythm official site was updated today with samples for the following songs:
Final Fantasy II Dungeon (field stage)
Final Fantasy V Saigo no Tatakai (battle stage)
Final Fantasy XII East Dalmasca Desert (field stage)
Final Fantasy XIII-2: Megami no Kishi
Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy confirmed for Western release - Summer 2012. More soon!
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EDIT -
UPDATE!
Square’s English press release for the game says that there will be over 70 tracks in the game when it comes over. We don’t know yet if that includes some of the downloadable songs that Japan’s been seeing every couple of weeks or not.
