When was Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy released?
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy was released in the winter of 2011. The game was developed starting in August 2009 and launched on the PlayStation Portable platform.
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Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy was released in the winter of 2011. The game was developed starting in August 2009 and launched on the PlayStation Portable platform.
The game introduced nine new playable characters including Lightning, Vaan, Laguna Loire, Yuna, Kain Highwind, Cecil Harvey, Tifa Lockhart, Prishe, and Gilgamesh. These characters were added to the existing roster to bring the total number of playable fighters to thirty-one.
The main story follows the twelfth cycle of the eternal war between Chaos and Cosmos where death becomes permanent due to the Manikins. The narrative continues into the thirteenth cycle and concludes with the Confessions of the Creator arc involving Shinryu and Feral Chaos.
Tetsuya Nomura stated that the combined storylines of the game would result in approximately 60 hours of gameplay. This duration represents a significant increase in content compared to the original Dissidia Final Fantasy.
Square Enix released the Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy Original Soundtrack on the 3rd of March 2011. The soundtrack features three discs containing a total of 71 tracks composed by Takeharu Ishimoto.
Dissidia 012 sold 286,117 units in Japan during its first week of release. This sales figure placed the game at the top of the Media Create charts but remained below the predecessor which sold close to 500,000 units in its first week on the 18th of December 2008.