Jump Festa 2007 Report - Part 1
(WARNING: This entry is image-heavy/not modem-friendly)
And so we start up the Jump Festa 2007 Report.
And get greeted by a big-headed Ichigo.
(Blurry photo FTW)
And also Naruto and Gintoki. (Shut up about the blurriness; I was rushing towards Squenix's booth >__>)
And from afar I could already see something familiar...
And so I easily found Squenix's booth thanks to their giant Chocobo! 8D
ROXAS!! THEY FINALLY MADE A GIANT ROXAS FIGURE!! Here's another photo but quite blurry.
Aaww, this was on one of the walls of the Open Mega Theatre. (Forgot to spend some time there but I caught the new FFTA trailer there! Awesome cel-shaded(?) CG! D8)
Aaaand here's the Nomura Zone!
A better view of SubaSekai's demo booth.
And behind you can see... The Closed Mega Theatre!
And so here are my impressions of the new stuff shown in the theatre!
Subarashiki Kono Sekai
- Same trailer as the one on the official website but they added in some new scenes, like the Seifer lookalike facing off with Neku, Seifer-lookalike and Namine-lookalike kicking some butts, more Shinigamis (many of them are MEGANES!! *_*) and... Neku trying to kill Shiki with his telekinesis. DDD8 That scene is where Shiki's "Watashi wo korosanaide" (Please don't kill me) line came from.
- Review of the playable demo:
-- Eeyup, I really was acting like a newb at the start because I didn't know where they keep those touch-pens and the staff pulled it out from under the NDS for me and I went "Oh!" *_*; The main menu had a Scenario Mode and a Battle Mode; I believe Scenario Mode is where you explore around the place looking for Hachikou so I decided to go for Battle Mode since that's what I wanted to try out the most. The waiting time for the demo was half an hour and I spent that whole half an hour trying to memorize the controls from the manual and stuff. 8D;; The battle was chaotiiiicc. I had trouble keeping track of both battle screens and my Neku was dying because I got too busy with Shiki's buttons. XDDD;; And I got confused on how to heal him so I pretty much went "*tap* Why am I not healing!? *tap tap* WHY AM I NOT HEALING WHY AM I NOT HEALING *TAPTAPTAP* Aaahh there we go" OTL
-- In short periods between battles you get some interaction between Neku+Shiki with that Shinigami lady and I find them funny. XD That Shinigami has a temper problem and so does Shiki, so whenever the two ladies hissed at each other, Neku's the one who put in the brakes.
Crisis Core: FFVII
- Some new footages! Friendship moments between Zack and Cloud! Cloud being so much less emo! *_* There's also an FMV of Genesis and Amzil(sp?) fighting Sephiroth. What else what else... Eeeerr, I get the feeling there's more but those are the only new things I remember of the trailer right now, sorry. DX
Final Fantasy XIII
- The beginning of the trailer starts with a woman's voice explaining the world's background, in English. I couldn't hear the voice well (since I'm waaay at the back of the theatre) so I relied to the Japanese subtitles instead. I'm not gonna write down the world's background in case I misinterpret anything the woman said so I'd recommend waiting until a proper gaming news site (like IGN) put some coverage on it. The FF13 heroine's name is confirmed to be Lightning (the voice mentioned Lightning being chosen by the crystal, too) but it's not her real name either. It turns out she's a mysterious character in the game, too. :P
- Most of the footages are the same as the TGS'06 trailer but at the end they added a new scene where the soldiers were outnumbering Lightning and she was making a face that says "*sigh* This is so bothersome" and then suddenly a guy came into the scene with a motorbike and shot away at the soldiers. He was wearing a long trench coat, had shoulder-length blonde hair and wore a black bandanna. What I can remember of him:
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Same trailer music but longer and more violins inserted.
- The trailer started by showing a car going through the city, with Mr. No Socks in the backseat, listening to the radio (couldn't hear what the radio reporter was saying) .
- Then the usual sleeping on his throne, getting up from it and then going out of the building to greet the soldiers. But this time they showed more than a minute more of him kicking those soldiers' butts. OMG there was so many things that happened, I don't know how to describe it! And because my English sucks, I'm gonna try my best to describe the action scenes here. >__>
- First he ran towards the soldiers with his swords and hack-and-slashed away at them, then with a sword he broke a soldier's arm and with the rifle still shooting out of the soldier's hand, he moved around the soldier so that the aiming went towards the other soldiers. After he finished shooting, he looked up at the building and many soldiers were climbing down the bulding by ropes. He jumped back to the stairs and started walking towards the building but suddenly he disappeared into thin air! The camera moved to the right and left, looking for Mr. No Socks, and suddenly at the corner we see one of soldiers falling down from the building and the camera went to focus there.
From there, you see Mr. No Socks falling down too, but in style and slashing away at the climbing soldiers while he's at it. He kept teleporting in and out and his swords kept popping out and in everywhere and he easily slashed away at the many soldiers.This whole scene is actually quite morbid, because you see the swords go through the soldiers, blood splattering out and those sorts. Once Mr. No Socks' done, he stood back at the stairs, but suddenly a soldier shot a bazooka at him and a huge explosion erupted. Once the smokes cleared off, you see Mr. No Socks still standing, unscarred, because his swords deflected the explosion. Lastly, he slowly walked back into the building.
- At the end of trailer, I can't really remember the full text, but there was a text saying the real him(?) was still in slumber. And the end.
- ..... So yes, Mr. No Socks was hawt. I love seeing how they put so much details in his clothes and seeing how leathery or whatever the fabric for his clothes is. *_*
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
- Showed more cutscenes, even up to Sora meeting Namine at Destiny Island. Sora was going "I've fought all this way just to meet you!" and was happily shaking Namine's hand but Namine replied, "I'm happy that you came all the way here for me, Sora, but... I... I'm not the one that's in your heart" (paraphrased) and slowly let go of Sora's hands. It's amazing how a sad scene in a GBA game that was in 2D and voice-less can feel so much sadder once it's in 3D and voiced. ;_;
- Zexy talked A LOT. XD; And I had trouble listening to what he was saying because they were like blasting "Hikari" at full volume or something but basically it's the scene where Zexion meets Riku and blabbering about darkness. Then they showed the Zexion VS Riku battle and Zexion was weapon-less at first but later he spawned out Soul Eater. Still nothing to show what's his real weapon, though. D:
- This time they showed new footages of Halloween Town (which wasn't in the TGS trailer). I didn't check out the playable demo for the game because I already tried it out at TGS but after looking at other blogs, it turns out they added Halloween Town and the Vexen battle into the demo!! DX WAAAAHHH I WOULD LOVE TO QUEUE UP FOR HOURS AGAIN FOR A BATTLE WITH VEXEEEENN *whinewhinewhine*
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix
- Sora's Christmas costume HAHAHAHAH!! XDDD
- ORGANIZATION MUSHROOMS!! OMG THEY WERE SO CUTE AND SO MANY AND IN VARIOUS SIZES OMGGGGG XDDDD ( This LJ entry already has scans of Christmas Sora and Organization Mushroom)
- NEW AREAS. One place (or two?) looked like a new area in Hollow Bastion.
- SORA GOT A NEW DRIVE. He had his KH1 colour scheme and did a bunch of cool stuff on screen. (Don't ask me to describe unless you're fine with me saying stuff like "There were sparklies and sparklies and some twirling around and some coolness")
- SORA GETS TO FIGHT THE COM ORGANIZATION MEMBERS IN THE COLISEUM. Or the place looked like the coliseum, anyway. There were footages of Sora fighting Lexaeus and Marluxia (in separate battles for each). Marluxia's battle looked awesome. Marluxia was slicing away at Sora as if he's a weed! But the Reaction Command for Marluxia got Sora stealing away his scythe and slicing back at him hahahah. XDD
- There was a meeting between the Organization members and they mentioned Axel's meeting with Sora (I think they were refering to Axel's death, though) could have triggered the Roxas in Sora to wake up. That explains why the Sora VS Roxas scene, then. (I KNEW Axel's death was what triggered it!)
- Roxas VS Sora battle. Um. HOLY SHIT ROXAS HAD WAAAAAAAAAAYYY TOOOOOO MAAAAAANNYYYYY HP BARS!! It's either for real or the staff members decided to play around with the dummy HP bars for trailer use. >__> And I dunno if the player just sucked at the game but damn, the battle looked as hard as an optional boss battle! Sora could barely put much damage to Roxas! And Roxas has Samurai's Reaction Command "Duelbout"! (can't remember what it's called in the ENG ver >_>;) Since the player didn't press the command fast enough, Roxas totally pwned Sora. *_*;;
- Around the end of the trailer, an Organization member (hooded and no voice heard so we dunno who he is) entered this hidden white chamber that's full of Nobody symbols in it. He sat on this throne-like chair in the middle of the room and further away in the room someone (we could only see half of that person's body but they resembled the Sunset Horizon knights a bit) was lying on the floor. The Organization member said something to that person (I forgot what, sorry) and called him a "friend." (「友よ」)
- And finally in the end you see a sneak peek of the Broken Masked Knight (same footage as TGS'06 trailer) and after that the "NEW PROJECT START IN 2007" text.
That's all.
After that I went to the Squenix Shop and bought the FF13 Poster Set! *_* Some other cool stuff that's on display:
A keyblade!
And they had these little KH charms. From left to right, from top: Sora's crown keychain, Mickey Mouse symbol, Kairi's charm, Heartless symbol, Keyblade, and Roxas' zipper. I so totally wanted to buy Roxas' zipper but each is 5,200 YEN. *heart crushes into pieces*
There are more photos put up here so go browse around if you want more (it goes on for 2 pages).
That's for Squenix's booth only. Next entry will be off Namco's booth plus a bunch of random cool Jump stuffz.
Edit:
Oh bah, looks like many people in 0kingdom_hearts went to JF'07, too. If I had known, I would have skipped writing this entry down because I don't like repeating stuff that's already widely known to everyone else. :/ (Especially since there are already two reports plugged in a LJ community)
And so we start up the Jump Festa 2007 Report.
And get greeted by a big-headed Ichigo.
(Blurry photo FTW)
And also Naruto and Gintoki. (Shut up about the blurriness; I was rushing towards Squenix's booth >__>)
And from afar I could already see something familiar...
And so I easily found Squenix's booth thanks to their giant Chocobo! 8D
ROXAS!! THEY FINALLY MADE A GIANT ROXAS FIGURE!! Here's another photo but quite blurry.
Aaww, this was on one of the walls of the Open Mega Theatre. (Forgot to spend some time there but I caught the new FFTA trailer there! Awesome cel-shaded(?) CG! D8)
Aaaand here's the Nomura Zone!
A better view of SubaSekai's demo booth.
And behind you can see... The Closed Mega Theatre!
And so here are my impressions of the new stuff shown in the theatre!
Subarashiki Kono Sekai
- Same trailer as the one on the official website but they added in some new scenes, like the Seifer lookalike facing off with Neku, Seifer-lookalike and Namine-lookalike kicking some butts, more Shinigamis (many of them are MEGANES!! *_*) and... Neku trying to kill Shiki with his telekinesis. DDD8 That scene is where Shiki's "Watashi wo korosanaide" (Please don't kill me) line came from.
- Review of the playable demo:
-- Eeyup, I really was acting like a newb at the start because I didn't know where they keep those touch-pens and the staff pulled it out from under the NDS for me and I went "Oh!" *_*; The main menu had a Scenario Mode and a Battle Mode; I believe Scenario Mode is where you explore around the place looking for Hachikou so I decided to go for Battle Mode since that's what I wanted to try out the most. The waiting time for the demo was half an hour and I spent that whole half an hour trying to memorize the controls from the manual and stuff. 8D;; The battle was chaotiiiicc. I had trouble keeping track of both battle screens and my Neku was dying because I got too busy with Shiki's buttons. XDDD;; And I got confused on how to heal him so I pretty much went "*tap* Why am I not healing!? *tap tap* WHY AM I NOT HEALING WHY AM I NOT HEALING *TAPTAPTAP* Aaahh there we go" OTL
-- In short periods between battles you get some interaction between Neku+Shiki with that Shinigami lady and I find them funny. XD That Shinigami has a temper problem and so does Shiki, so whenever the two ladies hissed at each other, Neku's the one who put in the brakes.
Crisis Core: FFVII
- Some new footages! Friendship moments between Zack and Cloud! Cloud being so much less emo! *_* There's also an FMV of Genesis and Amzil(sp?) fighting Sephiroth. What else what else... Eeeerr, I get the feeling there's more but those are the only new things I remember of the trailer right now, sorry. DX
Final Fantasy XIII
- The beginning of the trailer starts with a woman's voice explaining the world's background, in English. I couldn't hear the voice well (since I'm waaay at the back of the theatre) so I relied to the Japanese subtitles instead. I'm not gonna write down the world's background in case I misinterpret anything the woman said so I'd recommend waiting until a proper gaming news site (like IGN) put some coverage on it. The FF13 heroine's name is confirmed to be Lightning (the voice mentioned Lightning being chosen by the crystal, too) but it's not her real name either. It turns out she's a mysterious character in the game, too. :P
- Most of the footages are the same as the TGS'06 trailer but at the end they added a new scene where the soldiers were outnumbering Lightning and she was making a face that says "*sigh* This is so bothersome" and then suddenly a guy came into the scene with a motorbike and shot away at the soldiers. He was wearing a long trench coat, had shoulder-length blonde hair and wore a black bandanna. What I can remember of him:
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Same trailer music but longer and more violins inserted.
- The trailer started by showing a car going through the city, with Mr. No Socks in the backseat, listening to the radio (couldn't hear what the radio reporter was saying) .
- Then the usual sleeping on his throne, getting up from it and then going out of the building to greet the soldiers. But this time they showed more than a minute more of him kicking those soldiers' butts. OMG there was so many things that happened, I don't know how to describe it! And because my English sucks, I'm gonna try my best to describe the action scenes here. >__>
- First he ran towards the soldiers with his swords and hack-and-slashed away at them, then with a sword he broke a soldier's arm and with the rifle still shooting out of the soldier's hand, he moved around the soldier so that the aiming went towards the other soldiers. After he finished shooting, he looked up at the building and many soldiers were climbing down the bulding by ropes. He jumped back to the stairs and started walking towards the building but suddenly he disappeared into thin air! The camera moved to the right and left, looking for Mr. No Socks, and suddenly at the corner we see one of soldiers falling down from the building and the camera went to focus there.
From there, you see Mr. No Socks falling down too, but in style and slashing away at the climbing soldiers while he's at it. He kept teleporting in and out and his swords kept popping out and in everywhere and he easily slashed away at the many soldiers.This whole scene is actually quite morbid, because you see the swords go through the soldiers, blood splattering out and those sorts. Once Mr. No Socks' done, he stood back at the stairs, but suddenly a soldier shot a bazooka at him and a huge explosion erupted. Once the smokes cleared off, you see Mr. No Socks still standing, unscarred, because his swords deflected the explosion. Lastly, he slowly walked back into the building.
- At the end of trailer, I can't really remember the full text, but there was a text saying the real him(?) was still in slumber. And the end.
- ..... So yes, Mr. No Socks was hawt. I love seeing how they put so much details in his clothes and seeing how leathery or whatever the fabric for his clothes is. *_*
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
- Showed more cutscenes, even up to Sora meeting Namine at Destiny Island. Sora was going "I've fought all this way just to meet you!" and was happily shaking Namine's hand but Namine replied, "I'm happy that you came all the way here for me, Sora, but... I... I'm not the one that's in your heart" (paraphrased) and slowly let go of Sora's hands. It's amazing how a sad scene in a GBA game that was in 2D and voice-less can feel so much sadder once it's in 3D and voiced. ;_;
- Zexy talked A LOT. XD; And I had trouble listening to what he was saying because they were like blasting "Hikari" at full volume or something but basically it's the scene where Zexion meets Riku and blabbering about darkness. Then they showed the Zexion VS Riku battle and Zexion was weapon-less at first but later he spawned out Soul Eater. Still nothing to show what's his real weapon, though. D:
- This time they showed new footages of Halloween Town (which wasn't in the TGS trailer). I didn't check out the playable demo for the game because I already tried it out at TGS but after looking at other blogs, it turns out they added Halloween Town and the Vexen battle into the demo!! DX WAAAAHHH I WOULD LOVE TO QUEUE UP FOR HOURS AGAIN FOR A BATTLE WITH VEXEEEENN *whinewhinewhine*
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix
- Sora's Christmas costume HAHAHAHAH!! XDDD
- ORGANIZATION MUSHROOMS!! OMG THEY WERE SO CUTE AND SO MANY AND IN VARIOUS SIZES OMGGGGG XDDDD ( This LJ entry already has scans of Christmas Sora and Organization Mushroom)
- NEW AREAS. One place (or two?) looked like a new area in Hollow Bastion.
- SORA GOT A NEW DRIVE. He had his KH1 colour scheme and did a bunch of cool stuff on screen. (Don't ask me to describe unless you're fine with me saying stuff like "There were sparklies and sparklies and some twirling around and some coolness")
- SORA GETS TO FIGHT THE COM ORGANIZATION MEMBERS IN THE COLISEUM. Or the place looked like the coliseum, anyway. There were footages of Sora fighting Lexaeus and Marluxia (in separate battles for each). Marluxia's battle looked awesome. Marluxia was slicing away at Sora as if he's a weed! But the Reaction Command for Marluxia got Sora stealing away his scythe and slicing back at him hahahah. XDD
- There was a meeting between the Organization members and they mentioned Axel's meeting with Sora (I think they were refering to Axel's death, though) could have triggered the Roxas in Sora to wake up. That explains why the Sora VS Roxas scene, then. (I KNEW Axel's death was what triggered it!)
- Roxas VS Sora battle. Um. HOLY SHIT ROXAS HAD WAAAAAAAAAAYYY TOOOOOO MAAAAAANNYYYYY HP BARS!! It's either for real or the staff members decided to play around with the dummy HP bars for trailer use. >__> And I dunno if the player just sucked at the game but damn, the battle looked as hard as an optional boss battle! Sora could barely put much damage to Roxas! And Roxas has Samurai's Reaction Command "Duelbout"! (can't remember what it's called in the ENG ver >_>;) Since the player didn't press the command fast enough, Roxas totally pwned Sora. *_*;;
- Around the end of the trailer, an Organization member (hooded and no voice heard so we dunno who he is) entered this hidden white chamber that's full of Nobody symbols in it. He sat on this throne-like chair in the middle of the room and further away in the room someone (we could only see half of that person's body but they resembled the Sunset Horizon knights a bit) was lying on the floor. The Organization member said something to that person (I forgot what, sorry) and called him a "friend." (「友よ」)
- And finally in the end you see a sneak peek of the Broken Masked Knight (same footage as TGS'06 trailer) and after that the "NEW PROJECT START IN 2007" text.
That's all.
After that I went to the Squenix Shop and bought the FF13 Poster Set! *_* Some other cool stuff that's on display:
A keyblade!
And they had these little KH charms. From left to right, from top: Sora's crown keychain, Mickey Mouse symbol, Kairi's charm, Heartless symbol, Keyblade, and Roxas' zipper. I so totally wanted to buy Roxas' zipper but each is 5,200 YEN. *heart crushes into pieces*
There are more photos put up here so go browse around if you want more (it goes on for 2 pages).
That's for Squenix's booth only. Next entry will be off Namco's booth plus a bunch of random cool Jump stuffz.
Edit:
Oh bah, looks like many people in 0kingdom_hearts went to JF'07, too. If I had known, I would have skipped writing this entry down because I don't like repeating stuff that's already widely known to everyone else. :/ (Especially since there are already two reports plugged in a LJ community)