Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

**vrumpt** · 2012-07-06 23:08

Is there any benefit to farming existing dark notes for new drops vs trying out new ones that unlock for those drops?

**Insanecyclone** · 2012-07-07 12:00

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/02...her-questions/

How did you get the Final Fantasy Versus XIII song "Somnus" available as downloadable content? It must have been tough since the game, although it was announced six years ago, hasn’t come out yet.
Ichiro Hazama, Producer: A fan like yourself, who have heard the song before would be pleasantly surprised with a Versus XIII tune in the game. The music was announced earlier [through a trailer] and many people have heard the song already. It wasn’t anything too secretive.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is commemorated as a 25th anniversary title, so we wanted to be a little bit playful by adding this song. When we asked Nomura-san he casually approved it saying, "let’s do it" and that’s how we got it in.

Yeah, while this is a 25th anniversary title, there aren’t any songs in for Final Fantasy XIV, which is available for PCs, or spinoff titles like Final Fantasy USA (aka Final Fantasy Mystic Quest in Japan).

When you look up the collection of music in Theatrhythm, songs were collected from the mainstream Final Fantasy titles. We didn’t use spinoffs or anything like that and because of that USA was not included. Versus XIII is part of Fabula Nova Crystallis, the Final Fantasy XIII family, and we put music from every single game in that series into Theatrhythm.

In terms of Final Fantasy XIV, I personally thought that they were not ready to be incorporated into it. This was just my opinion, but they are changing the game. Maybe in the future, when they are ready, we may add songs from XIV.

Will DLC be the same in North America?

Nothing has been confirmed yet, but we also don’t have a plan to just do all of those DLC songs for Japan only.

In Japan, it looked like Theatrhythm Final Fantasy sold beyond expectations since stores had to restock the game right away. As the game’s producer, how did you feel about this?

As a producer, I felt sorry for fans who were waiting for the game because it was sold out. Some people had, in a worst case scenario, had to wait two weeks so the only feeling I felt was sorry.

In an Iwata Asks interview, you mentioned you had the idea for Theatrhythm after working on Advent Children when the DS first came out, but the hardware wasn’t powerful enough. How has the concept for Theatrhythm evolved?

It didn’t evolve from that time because it wasn’t possible on DS. I had to stop thinking about making it. In my mind, I was always warming up the idea, but we didn’t move forward with development. When 3DS was available and we had a talk with Nintendo, I thought with this we can resume planning and that’s how development resumed.

Did you always settle on the Kingdom Hearts Mobile art style or did you test other designs for the Final Fantasy characters before choosing the cutesy art style?

From the beginning, we were discussing how to present characters from the entire Final Fantasy franchise. When we saw the designs of the Final Fantasy guest characters in Kingdom Hearts Mobile we thought this is going to work.

It’s interesting that you used the gods from Dissidia in Theatrhythm. Are Chaos and Cosmos now overarching gods for the entire Final Fantasy universe?

[Laughs.] I didn’t feel that ambitious when I was planning Theatrhythm! The only titles that cover the Final Fantasy series from the first game to XIII are Dissidia and Theatrhythm. Nomura, the creative director, thought it would be great to use the artwork from Dissidia. Did you notice the logo has the gods on it? I worked on the Dissidia: Final Fantasy games too and because I worked on those titles, Nomura and I wanted to continue using those gods.

Do you view Theatrhythm as a series now? What series would you want to work with… Manarhythm? Theatrhythm… Hitman?

[Laughs.] Personally, I hope this will be come a series, but Theatrhythm Hitman will probably be really far off. There are many series that I would want to work on for Theatrhythm. Dragon Quest has a lot of music and Kingdom Hearts would be wonderful to do if it’s possible. I’m not to familiar with the Eidos collection, but Tomb Raider has a long history so it must have a great collection of songs. That might be fun.

Can you tell us what you want to work on next?

In my career, I used to work on merchandise. I worked on movies like Advent Children, then I worked on social games in Japan. Theatrhythm is something new too. It’s a music game for the Final Fantasy franchise. If I can do something new that nobody has done that would be very exciting.

**Ratatapa** · 2012-07-08 10:29

Just got 3 char

Minwu (silver)
Yuna (Turquoise)
Prishe (puple)

I'm almost full on crimson but can't see if it's Aerith or Faris

**Rokku** · 2012-07-08 18:28

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

Just got 3 char

Minwu (silver)
Yuna (Turquoise)
Prishe (puple)

I'm almost full on crimson but can't see if it's Aerith or Faris

Crimson is Faris. Aerith is red.

**vrumpt** · 2012-07-08 22:34

So yeah, magic pots give tons of xp. Found myself a nice dark note that has a magic pot if you go boss 2/3 route, the 3rd boss dropping rainbow shards to boot. Pretty kick ass note to farm. Party gets 10k xp each time the pot shows up.

**Psion** · 2012-07-08 22:50

Anyone know how i get the gold bars for crits on the non-chocobo/espers/extended routes? I can't seem to figure it out. theres the ||||||||||||| then a |||| underneath, with an overlapping area between the two. But when i do the extended version, the shorter one fills up with crits (naturally) but when i intentionally fail the special part to go the nonspecial route for crits, generally only one of the bars in the beginning or end fills up and the rest stay blank. Is there like an item or ability that prevents the special part from kicking in or something that i need? Trying to get the all critical bars filled bonus.

Also, i managed to get an all critical chain after many retries. (on easy

) Turns out that there's an acheivement for that, plus instead of a perfect chain stamp it gives you an all critical stamp instead heh.

**Rokku** · 2012-07-08 23:23

Originally Posted by Psion

Anyone know how i get the gold bars for crits on the non-chocobo/espers/extended routes? I can't seem to figure it out. theres the ||||||||||||| then a |||| underneath, with an overlapping area between the two. But when i do the extended version, the shorter one fills up with crits (naturally) but when i intentionally fail the special part to go the nonspecial route for crits, generally only one of the bars in the beginning or end fills up and the rest stay blank. Is there like an item or ability that prevents the special part from kicking in or something that i need? Trying to get the all critical bars filled bonus.

Also, i managed to get an all critical chain after many retries. (on easy

) Turns out that there's an acheivement for that, plus instead of a perfect chain stamp it gives you an all critical stamp instead heh.

Unequip the abilities from all your in-party characters and don't carry any equipped items to go into stoic mode. That's how you fill up those bars.

**Psion** · 2012-07-09 02:42

Originally Posted by Rokku

Unequip the abilities from all your in-party characters and don't carry any equipped items to go into stoic mode. That's how you fill up those bars.

awesome, ty!

**TacoTaru** · 2012-07-09 09:56

Wait, on the Dark Notes that drop the shards, you can farm them over and over again to unlock characters? ~_~ For some reason I thought the shard was a one time drop.

**Ratatapa** · 2012-07-09 09:58

nope just repeat the note

Also some notes boss #3 can drop 3 different shards

**TacoTaru** · 2012-07-09 10:04

I am a dumb dinosaur. Well that's neat I guess. I think I have four of five different shards in my list now that I could go farm. I'm still a little hazy on the Dark Notes so I hope someone can clear this up for me: is it random which boss you will get in your Dark Note or can you fight all three in one note? I replayed one of my notes a few times last night trying to change the boss and always got the same one. I did the intro to the Chaos Shrine really late so I don't remember what any of the tutorial text said.

**Rokku** · 2012-07-09 10:26

Originally Posted by TacoTaru

I am a dumb dinosaur. Well that's neat I guess. I think I have four of five different shards in my list now that I could go farm. I'm still a little hazy on the Dark Notes so I hope someone can clear this up for me: is it random which boss you will get in your Dark Note or can you fight all three in one note? I replayed one of my notes a few times last night trying to change the boss and always got the same one. I did the intro to the Chaos Shrine really late so I don't remember what any of the tutorial text said.

If you don't pass the sign that says "Boss No.2 or No.3" during the FMS part of the dark note, you fight boss one. If you pass that sign and do poorly on the BMS before the third mob spawns, you'll fight boss 2. If you kick the BMS's ass up to the third mob, it'll flash "Boss No.3" under your character portrait, and you'll fight that one.

**shaddix** · 2012-07-09 10:27

This game is great, I bought the game but I am waiting to get a 3ds XL so I can't play it. I played a couple songs on my friend's 3ds. This is a system seller for me

**Ratatapa** · 2012-07-09 11:00

i've been wondering 2 things

1) Can SE pull a SE aka if you fight a boss can he still drop a shard of the char you already unlocked?
2) Anyone was able to summon bahamut (outside magicite use)

**TacoTaru** · 2012-07-09 11:25

Going to piggyback Rata and ask is Leviathan in the game? I started playing around with the passwords and when I put in:

Spoiler: show

it gave me a Tonberry card. I've never seen him pop up as a summon in game, but I just assumed I wasn't playing the right characters. The password through me for a loop given the nature of it's relation to him so I was baffled that I got a Tonberry.

**Ratatapa** · 2012-07-09 11:37

Doubt LEvi is in look in the game case on the right side you see all the avatars

**Rokku** · 2012-07-09 13:55

Bahamut can only be summoned with his magicite. And yes, shards are very much still capable of dropping even if you've unlocked that character. If you have Red/Navy/Black on a Boss 3 and you've unlocked Aerith and Kain, you're still going to be getting their shards. It doesn't force the drop onto the last remaining color.

**Psion** · 2012-07-09 22:50

I think shinryu is in the game, though im not sure if he's a summon or a boss. He's a card at any rate, and his move is tidal wave.

Also, thanks for telling me about stoic status. I managed to pull off an all critical on two easy songs with stoic, and found out stoic gives 200,000 bonus points. If you get all critical on a song, that's 799,999 points. So if you do both, you get 999,999 points and get a SSS rank. :D

My main grief with the game though is that there's no full versions of songs like suteki da ne and melodies of life... they just play part of the song and last only a couple minutes. Feels cheap. I could understand it for the battle, but why no full version in the music player? ; ;

**vrumpt** · 2012-07-09 22:55

I know, I'm still raging at no full melodies of life (or an english version...) Game is still pretty amazing though. I'd love to see this get a sequel on the Wii U someday.

**MoogleAura** · 2012-07-10 04:48

Rainbow Shards dropping like crazy for me during a lot of Dark Notes. Does that unlock Cosmos? Currently at 6/8.

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