Alongside Dengeki leaks from yesterday, leaks from Famitsu magazine have surfaced:

• Your characters in Versus will not have jobs. However, your enemies will include dragon knights (or dragoons if you prefer) and summoners
• There is a summoning element to the game.
• Your weapon selection will include: swords, axes, spheres, hand guns, machine guns, rifles, bazookas, and shot guns. This is just a partial list, though.
• The Ignis character (the guy with the glasses) is good with assist-style attacks. He can toss knives at enemies. (Note: I’m not sure if Nomura actually uses the Ignis name, or if it’s just the person who wrote the summary.)
• The character with the scar on his face uses a fighting style. He can make use of a pile bunker and broad sword.
• The blonde character is a gunner.
• The game will have positional damage elements for attacking enemies.
• Larger enemies will have weak points.
• The game does not have team attacks for your party members. Repeat: does not.
• You can combo your attacks across character changes — that is, you can keep your combo going when you switch the character you’re currently controlling. As an example, you can make the scarfaced character do positional damage with his hammer, then switch to Ignis, or you can make the enemy shrink away in fear from Ignis’s magic then call in another character to attack.
• You can bring party members back to life if they die. The exception is Noctis. If he dies, the game ends.
• The difficulty is being set towards the high end.

Translation provided by Andriasang. Thanks again!
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Source: Andriasang

The final round of Dengeki Leaks includes new details on Final Fantasy Versus XIII. This weeks issue will come with a four page spread dedicated to Final Fantasy Versus XIII packed with new details. The most noteworthy revelation is Nomura’s attempt to quell release date speculation by asking everyone to concentrate on XIII-2 and Type-0 this year. This obviously indicates that a 2011 release date for Versus is very unlikely. The rest of the information leaked from the latest issue so far can be found below.

• The actual battle screen in the final game will show character names.
• Some areas regarding how the battle screen shows commands will probably change for the final.
• Magic has different effects depending on the character who uses it.
• A young blonde male character shown in the magazine’s screenshots is good with guns. He alone has aiming controls and can aim for enemy weak spots.
• When other characters use guns, they have just a normal lock-on.
• The game has a large number of weapons. Main character Noctis can use them all.
• Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren’t taking part in the battle will join in on conversations.
• There are more party members than the four shown in the magazine. However, the game doesn’t have a massive number of party members.
• Main character Noctis is not “cool.” He’s just a normal youth. He feels “I am strong,” but he’s not as strong as he thinks.
• Some segments of the trailer show natural landscapes. These are like the fields you encounter in other games. The game will have time progression: morning, afternoon, evening and night.
• Contrary to some theories, the dragon rider character who appears in the trailer is not heroine Stella. Nomura says he wouldn’t show Stella in such a state. The character you see in that sequence is an enemy.
• You can steal army vehicles for your use. You can ride air ships, cars and Chocobos.
• The blonde character shown in the trailer is Noctis’s friend. The other two characters are friends from Noctis’s childhood. The person with glasses is like Noctis’s tactician.
• You’ll recall that someone in the trailer says “You’re not fit to be king,” or something to that effect. This statement is not directed at Noctis.
• Nomura says something along the lines of: This year, we have Type-0 and XIII-2, so please forget about Versus for a while. He asked that people be patient and understand that they’re trying to do something incredible.
• At the earliest, we could see more from Versus XIII at E3.

That last comment could mean we won’t be hearing anything more about Versus until June.

Thanks to Andriasang for the great translations.

Source: Andrisang

UPDATE: Extended version – Andriasang