…Unless the game becomes SUCH a huge hit that Square says, “Hey, this crossover thing really works, let’s do more before the fad fades!” THEN we’ll likely get more Dissidias, anniversary or not. Besides, it’s just fun to guess who else they might use. 
Yeah, the whole “anniversary” thing might just be a starting point. And knowing Square, they probably will stick to that formula more or less, but I sincerely hope they don’t.
Well I can’t comment on the gameplay or the story. But the music is quite awesome, though I’m a sucker for remixes of oldschool music.
I’m disappointed that Dancing Mad didn’t get a remix, and we get yet another version of One-Winged-Freakin-Angel (though it sounds identical to some other version I’ve probably heard). I think Square could’ve dropped the ‘Fierce Battle’ music from FF6 (Atma Weapon, Statues) and gave us a remix of the final part of Dancing Mad instead, but oh well.
The remix of Battle on the Big Bridge is pretty sweet. I like it better than the one in FFXII anyway.
There’s a few tracks that are the originals from the game, and not remixed at all. Mostly FFX-XII music is just taken straight from the original source. The FFIX Boss theme is another original track too, which I found odd. They remixed the overworld theme and standard battle theme in FFIX, but they didn’t remix the boss theme.
I’m a bit disappointed that they also didn’t remix the villain’s themes, like they essentially did for the heroes (rather they remixed the main overworld theme from each game, but that usually doubles as the hero’s theme in most games).
I’m not sure what to think of the final battle theme for Dissidia itself, I’m not too fond of the lyrics, but maybe it works better in-game.
If you’ll excuse my laziness, what songs did they pull from XI, if any?
There’s only one FFXI track in Dissidia, it seems. ‘Ishimoto - The Federation of Windurst’ is the track title. It’s marked as ‘original’ so I guess it’s a straight port like the others, I wouldn’t know any difference since I’ve never played FFXI.
(One final gripe on the soundtrack, I wish they remixed JENOVA instead of the FFVII Boss theme)
…Unless the game becomes SUCH a huge hit that Square says, “Hey, this crossover thing really works, let’s do more before the fad fades!” THEN we’ll likely get more Dissidias, anniversary or not.
I think an anniversery idea fits better - gives time for new characters to be made (as i said in 5 years we’ll have several more games to take characters from)
Anyone else playing the Japanese version?
US TRAILER
Confirmed cast so far.
Warrior of Light: Grant George (Izuru Kira, Bleach)
Firion: Johnny Yong Bosch (Leouch, Code Geass)
Cecil: Yuri Lowenthal
Cloud: Steve Burton
Zidane: Sam Riegel (Edward, FF4; Viral, Gurren Lagann)
Tidus: James Arnold Taylor