Resonance Of Fate (End Of Eternity) has been confirmed for release during Q3, 2010 in Europe and North America.
Published by Sega and developed by tri-Ace, the title is being pushed forward in the hope of garnering renewed interest in Japanese role-playing games.
"America and Europe is the same release," said Sega's Jun Yoshino. "Usually the European version comes a year after, let's say the Japanese release. During the year, a lot of people are going to be like, well this is old news now.
"We're going to be losing a lot of interest if there is such a long time as a year. We've scheduled it in so we can get it out as quick as possible."
Resonance Of Fate (End Of Eternity) will be released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
tri-Ace has revealed that Resonance Of Fate will take between 50 and 100 hours to complete.
Director Takayuki Suguro and producer Mitsuhiro Shimano said that the Japanese role-playing title will be a minimum of 50 hours in length.
"The first-time play through without any side quests or extras is around 50 hours," they said.
"If you try to do all the side missions and unlock everything, it's going to take more than 100 hours."
The pair added that they are unsure about downloadable content since the title is already so feature rich, saying: "Nothing has been planned for now, but we might do in the future, we may not.
"It's hard to tell since the game already has all those features that would have been downloadable content for some other titles. There is so much in there that it's hard to find where we can add even more. That's why it's the reason why it's hard to tell whether we'll do that or not."
Resonance Of Fate will be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year.
Yes I'm super-dooper hyped for FF_XIII but the videos for this making me think twice about what to buy after it (sometime in August?!?)
Game Opening Sequence:
I'd buy any RPG made by SquareSoft, TriAce or Nippon Ichi. So i'll be buying this!! :)
what I dont understand is why this would be released in the same month as FF? Surely its marketing suicide!!
meh! i will buy it after i finish FF13, so they'll still get my moneyz anyhow
Achievements (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/resonance-of-fate/achievements/)
Although the descriptions are a bit vague, they sound easy
You can bet those 3 90 point secret achievements take about 50 hours each.
yeh, like every other RPG ever, easy 500 ... followed by a solid 500.
Resonance of Fate 'beats Final Fantasy XIII'
Sega RPG heads in "completely the opposite direction" to Square, says XBW
Tri-Ace RPG, Resonance of Fate "beats FFXIII," according to Xbox World 360 magazine's review.
"While Final Fantasy tries to be progressive by appealing to the masses - chopping and streamlining and simplifying to the point where the series' evocative branding is no longer even applicable - Resonance of Fate raises an eyebrow and then heads in completely the opposite direction," the mag says.
"Tri-Ace has focused primarily on its battle system and its world and on these grounds, if on no other, Resonance of Fate beats Final Fantasy XII hands down."
There's a debate for you then. You can read PSM3's Resonance of Fate review (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=239947) for a slightly different opinion and also Mike Jackson's opinion piece, FFXIII: Why the haters are wrong (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=237956), which looks Xbox World square in the face and then says naughty words.
almost all the metacritic review-bites have the word 'difficult' in them. lol, one for the hardcore JRPG'r it seems