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TYPE-0 TO HERO<br />
The PS4 remake of Final<br />
Fantasy Type-0 is more than<br />
just a way to grab the FFXV<br />
demo. Many consider 2011’s<br />
Japan-only PSP hit to be one<br />
of the best FFs in years.<br />
ORIES EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT<br />
info patches<br />
update your brain<br />
The demo’s set in FFXV’s ‘Duscae’<br />
region and has 3-4 hours of gameplay.<br />
we’ve ever seen – in an extended<br />
TGS demo we watch Tabata spin<br />
the camera around characters so<br />
gorgeous it’s hard to believe they’re<br />
in-engine models and not simply<br />
parts of a pre-rendered cutscene.<br />
Individual raindrops falling in<br />
the scene soak our future friends,<br />
wetting their hair and dampening<br />
their clothes before pooling in<br />
puddles that evaporate when the<br />
sun comes out. And is that… Is that<br />
a tiny frog we see emerge in the<br />
rain to splash about on the sodden<br />
ground? Yes, yes it is. Ribbit.<br />
HUNGRY AND HOME-LESS<br />
The awkward digital dancing news just<br />
keeps on getting worse. Following on from<br />
last month’s announcement of PS Home’s<br />
impending Japanese closure in this very slot,<br />
Sony has confirmed the service will be shut<br />
down globally next March. From 12 November,<br />
no new content will be posted on Home.<br />
017<br />
Here at OPM we’re big fans<br />
of classic Fant’ combat. Give us<br />
turn-based scrapping any day and<br />
we’ll be happy. Final Fantasy XV<br />
doesn’t do that. Actually, it makes<br />
it more action-y than ever with you<br />
seamlessly drifting in and out of<br />
scraps whenever you want. You’ll<br />
have full, real-time control of Noctis’<br />
every move, rather than queueing<br />
up attacks Lightning-style.<br />
So why aren’t our alarms blaring?<br />
Because this system transforms<br />
combat into sequences that could<br />
have been taken directly out of a<br />
Kingdom Hearts. It may not be true<br />
to the pre-XII Final Fantasy titles, but<br />
if the series must continue to evolve<br />
in the combat space, making it more<br />
like Kingdom Hearts is no bad thing.<br />
Mercifully, it looks every part the<br />
new-gen proposition, too. There’s no<br />
PS3 hangover in sight for what’s one<br />
of the most visually arresting games<br />
ONE FOR THE ROAD<br />
The thought of crossing the world<br />
via a motor with an all-male party,<br />
hopping out and adventuring<br />
whenever we choose, is so far<br />
removed from what we’re used<br />
to from the series that we’re sure<br />
it’s not for every FF fan out there.<br />
Do we pine for a return to the old<br />
formula or, dare we say it, the longrumoured<br />
VII remake? Of course.<br />
But after more failed starts than<br />
the average RAC worker fixes in<br />
a morning, FFXV’s final stretch is<br />
something to be celebrated. Doubly<br />
so because it looks ruddy brilliant.<br />
We’ll have much more on Final Fantasy<br />
Type-0 HD in OPM 104 out 21 November.<br />
Though you can grab the voucher on<br />
20 March, the demo date itself is TBC.<br />
<br />
PUT YOUR FOOT IN IT<br />
Throw those Converse in the bin – we’ve just<br />
found you the must-have footwear of 2014.<br />
A designer called John Barry has made ten<br />
pairs of limited edition ‘PS4 Air Jordans’.<br />
Aside from rocking your favourite console’s<br />
logo, the trainers come with a sodding HDMI<br />
port in the heels. To you, ‘guv? A mere $950.<br />
WATCH (DOGS) THIS SPACE<br />
You may still have the sting of 7/10 in your<br />
nostrils from Pearce’s first peeping quest,<br />
but Ubisoft already has plans for Watch Dogs<br />
2. Speaking to Digital Spy, creative director<br />
Jonathan Morin admits he wants Aiden’s<br />
Profiler expanded to help tell more emergent<br />
tales that could, “push the industry forward.”