EDGE Interview Nomura on Final Fantasy Versus XIII

[Kitmitsu]

EDGE Magazine from the UK has a section dedicated to Final Fantasy in their latest issue. They also attended the Square-Enix Party and managed to get an interview with Tetsuya Nomura on Final Fantasy Versus XIII. There isn't much more information that other interviews haven't already given us but this one is actually written in English rather than one of our translations. There's also small sections on each compilation game and a huge picture of our Protagonist from Versus at the begining of the section we've put up here just because it looks cool. Thanks to Dante from FinalFantasyVersusXIII.net for the scans.

Scan One: Final Fantasy Section Cover
Scan Two: Final Fantasy Section Page 2
Scan Three: Info on each game
Scan Four: Interview Page 1
Scan Five: Interview Page 2

Source: FinalFantasyVersusXIII.net

[Shana]

I love the cover. ;D

Real-World Events huh?...

[Alphonse]

Ooh yeah! Thanks man and Dante!

[Desi]

Originally Posted by Nomura

There are no explicit rules...so every version is the design teams interpretation

Sure there aren't. Let me just call up Matsuno and Co. and see how much square made them change. "Oops Basch story? No no, too old throw it a naked boy. Armor? To scary, only bad people can wear armor." Now I like naked boys as much as the next person but I want to go out and pull off a Delita.

This is Edge dude, where are the hard hitting questions? They weren't allowed like everyone else i suppose.


His talk about the battle between the gods makes me think of FFXI. I mean this whole crystallis project keeps reminding me of what has happened in the XI storyline. I guess since Tanaka doesn't want to do a Vana d'iel offline they use a handful of the mythos in the XIII games?

[Kitmitsu]

Originally Posted by Desi

This is Edge dude, where are the hard hitting questions? They weren't allowed like everyone else i suppose.

I thought that. I've read some interviews from their previous issues off Neogaf and they actually ask questions people want to know answers to. What I think this was though was a press conference between Nomura and some journalists and they've all reported on whatever questions people managed ask. Hope they actually get a one to one with them sometime although Nomura doesn't seem to like the European press.

[Hitoshura]

Nice

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