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Mark Marrow
07 Feb, 2003

Final Fantasy X-2 Media BlowOut

PS2 News | Final Fantasy X-2 website updates with heaps of new images and new features. So get ready for a PALGN PS2 massive media blowout with amazing new cut-scene footage, battle screens, new characters and information.
Squaresoft has recently put up a number of new details and screens on the official website on the upcoming Final Fantasy X sequel, FFX-2. We must warn you first - this article may get you extremely hyped up, and drooling is allowed.

Firstly, new information and screens were given about the new character to the game, Nooj. This character is the leader of the Young Allies, which is an organization rivaling the New Yevon Order in power. Before that, Nooj had fought within the Suppression Corps, where he earned the nickname “die-hard”. Known as a reckless man, he is known to say things such as ”It’s my life, I’ll do as I want to”.

In the new game there will be Chocobos. This time around they’ll be able to board airships like the Celsius- A feature that’ll add a lot of last ability will also be featured - You’ll have the ability to breed your Chocobos, including to feed, buy food/veggies, breed, info, recover, restock food, exchange, release, and discover them.

Lastly, Square released information on the series' return to job classes. The currently announced jobs are Gunner, Warrior, Thief, White Mage, Black Mage, Dark Knight, Gambler, and Song Princess/Pop Star.

FFX-2 varies many of these abilities by what your character decides to wear. Ability Points earned in battle will power these up, and the game's menus will show a completion percentage next to each individual's dresses and jobs. You can even earn abilities during battle.

Unlike many games, the main characters will change appearance based on their job, at least in battle. It’s as such in our last update with pictures of Rikku dressed as a black mage. This is a good change, meaning you’ll be able to give those less qualified strong characters the job to be a Dark Knight, giving the character strong attack skills, and even the awesome leech power.

Here is a sample of the abilities that each class learns:

Gunner:
- Fight: Basic starting ability.
- Power Shot: Hits an enemy every time.
- Magic Shot
- Burst Shot
- Hard Shot
- Reverse Shot
- Blind Guard: Guards against the Blind ailment
- Gunplay
- Quick Trigger: Mastered in advance, allows you to attack the number of times you press the R1 button within a limited time, creating chain combos. It can be raised to Level 2 variety.

Gambler:
- Double Dice: The character rolls two dice and deals the sum in damage. If the same two numbers are rolled again, the player deals double damage.

Dark Knight:
- Darkness: Leeches HP from a character but deals it in damage to target.
- Demonic Craft
- Take Down

White Mage:
- Cure: Unlike FFX, cure can now be cast on your entire party or a single member.
- Pray

Thief:
- Steal Will Power: Makes the target enemy lose the will/courage to fight and forces them to flee the battle.

Black Mage:
- Black Magic
– Concentrate

Warrior:
- Gravity Sword: A regular strike bound with the element of Gravity.
- Flame Tan: The same as Gravity Sword, Flame Tan retains the power of fire.
- Armor Break: Lowers the target opponent's defense.

So there're all the new main details that were revealed from Squaresoft recently on their upcoming game ‘Final Fantasy X-2’. Now the new images that can be seen in our media panel will reveal a lot of what was just said above.

Expect more updates in the near future.

EXTREME MEDIA BLOWOUT

Related Final Fantasy X-2 Content

Final Fantasy X-2 Review
05 Mar, 2004 The first ever Final Fantasy sequel is released - how does it compare to its predecessor?
Final Fantasy X-2 Preview
13 Oct, 2003 PALGN's impressions on the game based on the PAL demo and the Japanese version.
Final Fantasy X-2 Scan
16 Feb, 2003 Scan from a Japanese magazine reveals new in-game-footage and characters
2 Comments
9 years ago
Excellent. Unfortunately for me, I don't have a PS2, or live in Japan... icon_razz.gif
8 years ago
This game just went from a bit dull, to one of my new must haves, if you ask me....
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