The Official Square-Enix members section is updating with the FFTA2 side stories seen on the Japanese site. Currently only Luso's story is up.

http://member.square-enix.com/na/features/ffta2/04/

Two new interviews are up from the developers of FFTA2. This last one is pretty interesting since it talks about a Job Class that never made it into the game and how originally the story was going to be much darker and Luso was originally from Ivalice and not from some other world.

• Part 3 of FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: Grimoire of the Rift interview ( Read more... )

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From the Square-Enix Members section blog:

To celebrate today's release of FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: Grimoire of the Rift, we updated SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS with more FFTA2 stuff: Part 1 of an interview with the development team and viera job-class wallpapers.

Also, remember to send in your messages to the FFTA2 team after you play the game ( Read more... )

IGN.com has a review up for Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift.

10 Presentation
One of the best Japanese to English translations we've seen. The dialogue is well-written, the music is great -- everything has that classic Square Enix polish. 9.0 GraphicsThis is a beautiful DS game. The sprites don't come with a lot of animation, but ( Read more... )

Got a question for the FFTA2 developers? Well the Square-Enix NA members section is now taking questions that you can submit to them:

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: Grimoire of the Rift is coming in a little more than two weeks (June 24). Are you excited? We thought that you might be, so we created a special submission form for you to send messages to ( Read more... )

Has anyone noticed when playing through the FFT remake that the random battles are a bit more...bizarre? I have fond memories of being attacked by swarms of chocobos on Barius Hill and getting wasted by chocometeor every once in a while, but some of the ones I've run into now... I hardly believe some of them XD ( Read more... )

Gametrailer.com has some clips up for Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift:

FFTA2 Shiva Gameplay
FFTA2 Ifrit Gameplay
FFTA2 Thundaga Gameplay

The SE Memebers blog has updated with info on the FFTA2 site update and answered some questions.

We updated the official FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: Grimoire of the Rift web site today and now it's more than just a static page with a release date. We promised you that we'll talk about this game soon so here we go ( Read more... )

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