CHARACTER PLUS GAMEPLAY INFORMATION REVEALED
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Updated on 12.17.2003 by Sifar
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Famitsu magazine held an interview with some of the key makers of Final Fantasy XII. This has led to a good amount of information being revealed about the game. It is said that Balfrea and Fran will join the team (Vaan and Ashe) fairly early on in the story. Balfrea's age has been confirmed as being 22 and that he is of the hume race. He will have the ability to fight in a number of ways including the use of a firearm. Yoshida (Character Designer) mentioned how he designed Balfrea to look like a hero and thus is also his favourite of the game. In regards to Balfrea's small airship, its being kept a secret whether it is his or not. Yoshida also mentioned that gamers should look at Balfrea's face during the game since a lot of effort has gone into working on his expressions. For Fran, the FFXII team said that she was from a remote location where people were in very few numbers. Her character reflects that of someone who is reliable and beautiful. Just like Balfrea, Fran has more than one method of combat. They including the use of fencing swords (?), bows + arrows, and martial arts. Matsuno mentioned in the Famitsu interview that there will be a lot of character involvement in the story and that there were a few more main characters yet to be announced.
In terms of gameplay, it was mentioned that there would be a free rotating camera in both the quest mode and in battle. It was also mentioned that gamers will be able to see the weapon being equiped by characters during quest mode. For example, if you have equiped a sword, it will be visible on you as you search towns and so on. Matsuno mentioned how the worlds in FFXII would be wide like those in Final Fanatsy XI (but not as large). There was also mention of creating different languages for each of the races. Each language would have different characters (letters and symbols) of its own. The only race not to have a new language would be the Hume race. However, this feature may not make it to the final game due to time constraints.
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(Source: GameOnline)
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