Site Updates ------------ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, June 16 2004 Added some new monsters and made several corrections. I thank vilaeth for helping me translate the Cockatrice. The pictures will come later. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, June 15 2004 I decided to use .txt for site updates as I realized I can't take the time it PageBuilder loads. A short 30 second movie has came out. You can check it at Squarenet.de . Quite a few monsters which I can't see properly and don't know how to get screenshots of. I'll make an update as soon as possible. I need feedback and I still need some Japanese translators. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, June 10 2004 I had a look at a new gameplay trailer from E3 and found several new monsters. Indeed the FF11 Mandragora model has been used by the FF12 team. Because I can't take screenshots of my Media Player, I decided to use the FF11 model instead. And I also found out that the bandersnatch/muu monster is actually a wolf. I made several fixes to the pages and I will make a monster detail page soon detailing some monster abilities and stuff. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday, June 5 2004 Well, latests set of Famitsu info has came out. A lot of monster names reported as well as three new monster pictures. One is Hyena which had already been added without the picture, another is one very identical to FF8's Anacondaur. The third is a little bit hard as it really resembles the Mesmerize/Ixion monster we already see. There's a difference in color though and this worries me. Could this be a pallete swap?!? By looking at the color it looked a little bit like the Lamashtu from FF10. I also removed quite a lot of my old news and I hope of redoing my links page. UPDATE: I just found out that the Zuh/Cockatrice-like monster is actually Owlbear. Which makes space for two monsters as Cockatrice has been reported. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, May 31 2004 New details coming out from some interviews by magazines. Unfortunately, following a copyright incident by gameonline.jp, many are afraid to post scans. However we do know a few new things and as usual you can find it at Squarenet.de . One of it is that Matsuno has asked Hiromichi Tanaka, producer of FF11 to borrow some monsters from the game. Apparently one such monster is the Mandragora which has been seen by some people. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, May 23 2004 A new interview conducted by Famitsu with Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yasumi Matsuno has surfaced. For more information head to Squarenet.de . This comes with the revealing of Moogles. But my job is to bring you monsters and I've got two new pictures and some reported names. I might also need help translating some Japanese names so if anyone is willing please e-mail me. Considering ffxii.org is down, I really hope that someone is still here. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, May 16 2004 Well this update is pretty late.There are a few reasons actually. The first is because my computer was hit by the Sasser virus as well as a few other viruses simultaneously. The second was because I have exams coming soon. And the third is because I was waiting for the dust from the latest information explosion to settle. As you know E3 was held recently and there were many new FF12 information release and there were also English-subtitled playable demos! These demos revealed the battle system, a snippet of the introduction to the game (Matsuno's style is very obvious here), a few new character and my favorite more monsters! The demos had six different scenarios you could pick from. A few of were just free battles while the rest had a little to do with the story. For more information read it at Squarenet.de with babelfish. There's also a detailed impression over at http://www.1up.com although you can find some at other sites like Gamespot. I shall not go into detail. Over at battles system, the game has a radical new battle system, the Active Dimensional Battle(ADB) which has no random encounter and is a mix between FFXI, the ATB, SW: KotOR and a few other Bioware games. I shall not go into detail. You can read about it at the sites above. There are alot of new monsters from the trailers and I am planning to redo the pages. Be patient, updates will come. *UPDATE*: Finished redoing the pages. Now there's no description of the monster but there just the North American version name in bold. If there's no NA version, then the JP translation is in bold. If there're none then I will just put my own guess there with the "(?)". To not confuse you, I've put the names for NA and JP versions also but just bolded the main one. "(reportedly)" means it has been reported but I've yet to see them. Some of them don't have screenshots because I can't find a screenshot of the creatures.I'll post it as soon as I get it. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 28 2004 The new FamitsuWaveDVD is just a better quality Jump Festa trailer which might hold the key to the battle system. Here's a few images which look like they're from the DVD. Here are some other images, this and this. UPDATE: I found out that the ability at the top left is Fight, Magic, Technique and Item. The second screen to its right shows two Empire Swordsman with the numbers 1 and 8 next to them. Since they look like the Prison Guards, I'm going to update __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, April 25 2004 Sorry for the lack of updates. I was delayed for a while A new character has been revealed by various Japanese magazines. Pannero/Penelo is a female dancer who is supposed to be Vaan's girlfriend. She lost her parents in a previous war. She is quite skilled in martial arts although she lacks experience. She was taught by her brother, a member of the order of knights, who might possibly be deceased as well. According to the latest Dorimaga issue, the game has reached an 80% completion status in comparison to the 70% status reported a while back. And the new screenshots shown have shown that the circle shadows which left many complaining have been repaired. Anyway, the latest batch of screenshots have not shown any battle pictures so I won't be able to update. But don't worry. A trailer on the FamitsuWaveDVD will be releasing soon and hopefully there's some battle shots there __________________________________________________________________________________________ *All times are GMT +8.00 Press back on your browser to return