Undecided on Dissidia

    What will you fight for? Cosmos or chaos, life or death, good or evil?!
All great questions and all questions asked of you by SQUARE-ENIX’S latest game for the PSP  DISSIDIA:FINAL FANTASY. The problem is when you start the game the only choice your given is to fight for good. In fact there are a multitude of problems with DISSIDIA.
   
    Now before I have every FF fan boy on the Internet e-mailing me death threats let me explain. I LOVE final fantasy, I do. I’ve been a huge fan ever since I played FINAL FANTASY II (also know as FINAL FANTASY IV) on the SNES .I have always stuck by the franchise even through the tough times I.e. Final fantasy xii and when I heard about DISSIDIA trust me I was just as ecstatic as everyone else. But then I bought the game, the first couple minutes were okay until I realized I was lied to. You can not actually pick a side when you start the story mode, you have to fight for cosmos. The chaos side does not become available until you unlock them. This take quite awhile because to do it you must collect AP (a familiar term for FF fans meaning ability points) to purchase the characters from the catalog.

    Then I discovered that the storyline battles were fought (mostly) against crystal golems of various characters. good and evil. in the game. I was let down but I persevered. I beat the game with the entire cosmos team and was disappointed even more to learn you can not play the story line with the chaos team. I chalked this up to false advertising and pressed forward. I played through inward chaos (the games ultimate mode) and found it to be fairly fun, but still lacking.

    The graphics are great, for the PSP. The game play itself, while repetitive and occasionally redundant, was fine. Not since Ehrgeiz have fans had the opportunity to battle it out with each other as FF characters. It just seems like SQUARE should have taken a little more time on the game and developed it for PS3. It had so much potential that was wasted on the PSP.

    In the end I’m really undecided on the game, to true hardcore FINAL FANTASY fans I say go buy it. But to anyone else I think you might want to rent this one first.