Posted Oct 09, 2007 at 10:35PM by Nicolo S. Listed in: Interviews, Games, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Tags: Square Enix, Sony, Akitoshi Kawazu
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Square Enix answered a few questions about the Ivalice Alliance in an interview and even hinted at the possibility of a Vagrant Story port to the Sony PSP. From how Squeenix responded to the query, we'd also bet on a game starring Basch and a U.S. version of Final Fantasy XII International: Zodiac Job System.

Now that Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is out, we've seen how Square Enix can port such dated games to the PlayStation Portable. Vagrant Story, another PlayStation title from the Ivalice Alliance, is sure to woo fans if it gets a makeover. When asked if there are plans to port that to the PSP like what Square Enix did with FFT, Ivalice Executive Producer Akitoshi Kawazu replied:

Vagrant Story was a title that pushed the PS one to its limits. The technical hurdles in porting it to the PSP would be extremely high. Of course, I think it's the next natural candidate for such an update, and there's no denying its extreme popularity overseas.


Basch, who was initially intended to be Final Fantasy XII's leading man, doesn't seem to be out of the scene. FFXII: Revenant Wings for the Nintendo DS has Vaan as the main guy, which leaves the question of what happens to who's supposedly the main character in FFXII. Square Enix declined to answer, and left us scrambling for our thinking caps.

On another note, producer Hiroyuki Ito left a tiny open window for any North American FFXII International: Zodiac Job System release. Chances are slim, but enough for the faithful. According to Ito:

Right now, the prospects of a North American version are the playoff prospects of a 9-6 team, down 2 with 2:02 left to play, facing 4th and 7 on the opponent's 43-yard line.


You can check out the entire interview of Kawazu and Ito with 1Up by following the Read link below.




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   by Logic - 2007-10-09
 » difficult to port

Yeah, my copy through the PSX emulator works fine. I ported it myself in like 3 minutes. Changing this bad boy over to PSP and having it run smooth would be a cake walk. Don't feed us poo. PSP > PSX, we all know that.


   Re: rawrskies - 2007-10-10
 » meh

That's called emulation. While they could easily emulate it, I guess converting the whole thing into native psp code would require some work and optimization. At least, that's the only way you can explain how the FFT port runs so crap.
   by shrimpdude - 2007-10-10
 » no.

There's no good reason why FFT runs better emulated than ported. It defies all logic.

Maybe they're saying that porting Vagrant Story would be a "technical hurdle", because they'll need an excuse for the crappy way it will inevitably turn out, if they hire TOSE to do the job.

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   by weapon33 - 2007-10-10
 » what would be even better

would be a sequel or spinoff of vagrant story to make it more tied to the ivalice of ffxii at some historical point, with an overhaul on graphics and gameplay.

   by misthero - 2007-10-10
 » omg

one of the best games ever!! I can't wait..even if I'm playing it emulated yet :P

   by Hissatsunowaza - 2007-10-10
 » hmmm

What are they thinking?

They should be rereleasing these ports as downloadable games from the ps3 store so we don't have godam lag!! UMD is a failure!

   by BrendanL - 2007-10-10
 » Final Fantasy Tactis The War of The Lion

I just started playing and I think it plays just as well as the PSX version. Basch would be a nice add-on to Vagrant Story and I wouldn't doubt that they wouldn't because he's already in FFT : The War of The Lion.

   by WarLord - 2007-10-10
 » Hopefully they ported

I never got around to actually playing the game, but if they do decide to port it for the psp, it'll be on my top priority to buy it.



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