Final Fantasy is arguably one of the longest and largest gaming franchises in existence, it’s been across four generations of consoles and is about to emerge into a third. It’s been ported across consoles over time and been shrunk down into handheld chunks of fun on the DS and PSP, it’s spawned new series of games that range from pseudo hack ‘n’ slash to Real Time Strategies (FF Tactics) and even been through 2 incarnations on film. It even survived the merger of the two Japanese RPG giants Squaresoft and Einx in 2003.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy is the latest in Square-Einxs epic and takes a different approach into the series as a swish and sleek fighting game. Spanning across all of the Final Fantasy universe, from I to X, and containing the lead protagonists and antagonists from each of these games who have joined together onto two opposing sides; the side of Cosmos made up of the protagonists and the side of Chaos which consist of the antagonists from the series. The story is the standard affair for a Final Fantasy series; without wanting to reveal all, the side of Chaos (the God of Discord) attacks and tries to kill Cosmos (the God of Hope), this means