Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings was released in America today for the Nintendo DS.

It's a true sequel to Final Fantasy XII for the PS2, taking place in the same world with several of the same characters after the events in Final Fantasy XII. It stars Vaan and Penelo (who's personalities have changed completely), with guest appearances by Fran and Balthier during the first tutorial missions. I'm not sure if they're in it after that though, I'm not too far.

The story (so far) is after the events of 12, an explosion caused the barrier around a floating continent in the sky to disappear, making it accessible to all. An airship comes down, so Vaan and lackies decide to commandeer it for a while. After a brief run in with a character you will remember from 12, the ship takes off and brings it's new crew up to the floating continent. During the first battle you meet a winged man named Llyud, who tells you about the trouble his race is having; sky pirates are taking over, looking for aurocite which allows them to summon creatures from another reality; the illusion world. I guess it's up to Vaan to save everyone again......

The game starts off explaining the battle system... which at first is the entirety of the game. It's basically point and click, the directional buttons are used only to move the camera. The maps are actually pretty big. At least they seem that way, considering how slowly the characters walk until you get Sprint for Vaan. The first 5 or 6 missions are basically tutorial based and pretty boring. The second boss (who I mentioned in my story synopsis) is actually pretty fucking hard considering what level you are at to start with, and not being used to the battle system. Luckily if you die, your characters gain levels and you can restart with those. So if you keep going you'll eventually beat them.

Things start getting neat upon the retrieval of the airship, which is right at the beginning. You can walk around freely on the airship, and talk to your partners and such. As you complete missions new things on the ship become available... mostly reading though. Not a lot of fun, yet. The game has an alchemy system much like the trade system from 12. You scavenge (YEAH) goods on the battle fields from rocks and such and then use them to create new equipment.

The battles are generally pretty huge. There are tons of enemies on each field and even your party can be pretty big, each character being able to control up to 5 monsters in a party. I currently have 6 characters, and each has 5 monsters which puts me in control of... 36 characters in a battle. It can get pretty chaotic. I generally send my monsters away and just leave the characters out to gain levels, but I'm sure I'll regret that later when things start getting harder.

Monsters are gained using a system like the skill board in 12, except it's a ring and you need aurocite instead of SP to unlock new monsters. It looks like there's a lot of them, too.

Gambits are back but you can only equip one per person, and it just makes it so that character will constantly use one attack. For example, I have the Sprint gambit on Vaan right now, so he casts sprint on himself every time the affects wear off.

Oh and it has cinemas.


I'll post a screen, too, I guess. This doesn't even begin to show how chaotic things can get though.



and a link to gamespot reviews and shit FFXII:RW

Yeah, I thought my settings on no$gba would transfer but they didn't. But that's what you need to use (what ds posted)

Anyway, just FYI for anyone who decides to play this and thinks that letting lots of monsters spawn would be a good idea to gain lots of levels. It's NOT. Do not spend any more time than you need to in a battle besides getting items and shit. Experience is given out for the mission completion, not for the defeat of monsters.

I just spent an hour and a half in one battle and got the same amount of experience as I would've if I had completed it right away. Kind of gay.

Yeah those are the instructions for running it on the emulator I uploaded it with it. What I put on the zoo was the actual rom. Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings.nds

do you need the sfv file?

And it works fine on the PC. Lags a little bit, though.

This, FFT, Kingdom Hearts 2 prequel, and FF3 = me buying a DS.
Hell, Pokemon is reason enough. :\

Just tried this for a while using no$gba, it seems pretty good so far. The tutorial missions are pretty boring but after that it starts picking up. I didn't like FF12 enough to finish it so I don't know about how the story connects, but I've understood everything in the story so far so I don't think you really have to finish FF12 before trying this.

Also somewhat offtopic but the jap version of FFTA2 has an English patch with enough to play the game (equipment, skills, jobs, etc.)

The Rom I got from ndsroms worked fine on my R4. I'm actually sort of surprised they nailed the RTS control scheme with the stylus. It's too bad they just reused the whole FFXII soundtrack though.

They didn't reuse the WHOLE soundtrack >_> Just about 95% of it... there's a new song or two.

 I guess for a small indie developer like Square Enix it makes sense that they'd cut corners.

After getting used to FFXII on the ds, it wasnt too bad. My only complaint with this game is that the movements are too slow for my liking. I mean it takes so god damn long to walk from point A to point B, let alone attack the enemy at point B. Ugh, this game gave me the inspiration to start FF3 DS over again