Dissidia Final Fantasy

This article is about the 2008 video game. For the 2015 arcade game, see Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
North American box art featuring the protagonists from the first ten Final Fantasy games.
Developer(s)Square Enix
Publisher(s)Square Enix
Director(s)Takeshi Arakawa
Producer(s)Yoshinori Kitase
Designer(s)Mitsunori Takahashi
Programmer(s)Ryuji Ikeda
Artist(s)Takayuki Odachi
Writer(s)
Composer(s)Takeharu Ishimoto
SeriesFinal Fantasy
Platform(s)PlayStation Portable
Release
  • JP: December 18, 2008
  • NA: August 25, 2009[1]
  • AU: September 3, 2009[2]
  • EU: September 4, 2009[3]
Universal Tuning
  • JP: November 1, 2009
Genre(s)Action role-playing, fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Dissidia Final Fantasy[a] is a fighting game with action role-playing elements developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign for the Final Fantasy series' 20th anniversary. It was released in Japan on December 18, 2008, in North America on August 25, 2009, and in Australia and Europe in September. It was then re-released in Japan, based on the North American version, as Dissidia Final Fantasy: Universal Tuning, on November 1, 2009.

The game features characters from different Final Fantasy games and centers on a great conflict between Cosmos, the goddess of harmony, and Chaos, the god of discord. The two summon multiple warriors to fight for their sides in their thirteenth war. During the story, the player controls the ten warriors chosen by Cosmos, the protagonists from the first ten Final Fantasy games, in their journey. The game's English and international versions give access to other features such an arcade mode.

Dissidia originated from Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura's desire to create a spin-off for the franchise but then changed to the Final Fantasy series. Besides designing the characters, Nomura worked with the Square staff with the desire to make it appealing to Western players. Dissidia was well-received commercially and critically, with positive reviews and sales of over 1.8 million.[4] A follow-up titled Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy was released in March 2011 and features several new characters and gameplay features.

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  4. ^ "プレイステーション・ポータブル専用ソフト「DISSIDIA duodecim prologus FINAL FANTASY」配信開始のお知らせ". Square Enix. January 18, 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2016.


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