It appears that popular J-pop star Gackt will be performing the main theme to the upcoming title, Dirge of Cerberus. In addition to “Redemption”, Gackt will also perform another song in the game, entitled “Longing”. But that is not all of the surprises available in terms of Dirge of Cerberus. Gackt will also appear in the game itself. However, he will not be a virtual character, but the real Gackt will make a special appearance in the game.
 

Angela Aki, a new singer in the Japanese
market, will be the artist to sing the FF XII theme song. She released her first single, "HOME," on September 14, 2005. Although that is not the theme
song to FF XII, you can listen to audio/video clips of that single on her webpage.

As announced at the Square-Enix party recently held,  FFXII is once again composed by Nobuo Uematsu and the theme song will be performed by the artist Angela Aki. The title of the song will be “Kiss me goodbye.”

[image source: Angela Aki Official Website]

Recently, Square-Enix has announced that Final Fantasy VII: Advent
Children has been a top-seller in Japan and has currently sold over 700,000
copies to date. The limited edition versions of the DVD have also been
completely sold out for awhile now. Congrats to Square-Enix on the success
and we hope that its popularity will continue in North America and Europe.
 

Recently, it was revealed in Famitsu magazine that the main theme song to the Japanese version of FFVII: Advent Children is titled "Calling."  It is to be performed by popular male artist Kyosuke Himuro.  The song will also be part of the two-disc FFVII:AC soundtrack which goes on sale on September 28th in Japan.  The movie is set to release September 14th in Japan and it will hit the US sometime this holiday season.

On another note, we will be getting the Japanese version of FFVII: AC and we promise to release our AC section with information and a review as soon as possible.

New character and summons information revealed:
Some of you may have seen various pieces of recent FFXII magazine scans and have noticed a dark-haired man appearing in some of them. Recently, Square-Enix has explained more details regarding this character. His name is Vayne and he is the heir of Gramis, the Emperor of Arcadia. It’s too early to determine whether Vayne is a playable character in FFXII or not. The two new summons shown are Berias, the fire summon and Hashmarim, the earth summon. It appears that summons will play a similar role in battle to the ones in FFX.

Japan release date confirmed:
Those who are waiting for FFXII will have to wait longer, unfortunately. Square-Enix has finally announced a release date for Japan. FFXII is slated for release on March 16th, 2006. No word yet on a North American release date. When it happens, you can be sure that we’ll report it as soon as possible.
 

It was four years ago (August 9, 2001) when our site first launched. It has grown since then, and we are proud to celebrate four years on the internet. We thank all our viewers for our success. Extra thanks to our volunteers, who have helped out on many things in the past. We will continue to bring out quality Final Fantasy information on this site for many years to come.

We would definitely want our site to grow. One way to do this is for our viewers to participate on FF Odyssey. Whether it would be through volunteering through our jobs page, reporting errors, or submitting fan art / fan fiction / wallpapers, you are making substantial contributions to the quality and depth of content on the site.

The upcoming expansion section, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, is set to be up and completely functional this fall/winter. In addition, we are awaiting the arrival of various FF VII spinoff games, including Dirge of Cerberus, and Before Crisis. Another section which we will be reviewing is the highly anticipated FF XII, set for release next year after the PlayStation 3’s Japanese launch.

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