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The newest chapter of the Final Fantasy saga secures another first place in overall sales in Japan in traditional low-sales period.

Square Enix can boast about possibly the largest fanbase in the world, based mostly around the highly successfull (and addictive) Final Fantasy series, and to a lesser extent around the Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts series. And surely such a large crowd will buy your game if there is any “Final Fantasy” snippet in the title.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2 on the DS follows the successes of Final Fantasy Tactics PSP and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy PSP in May, and September respectively, debuting on the first place in the japanese sales charts at 142,000 units units. This is a commercial success, if you take into consideration the following games in the charts: #2 Ar Tonelico 2 for the PS2 and World Soccer Winning Eleven DS.

To quote a famous future game hero, “It’s about time!”

After 4 years, Electronic Arts finally released Flagship’s signature piece. Bill Roper, ex Blizzard North and currently CEO of Flagship Studios (with several ex-Blizzard members whom worked on Diablo) is convinced that the game will bring a lot of enjoyment to all rabid fans out there, waiting for another quality hack-n-slash-action RPG.

I have played the demo, things are looking up, and this will probably a GREAT game. You just need to go to the local game shop and get convinced yourself. I just wouldn’t want to be paying to play multiplayer (still not very sure what the plans are about this).