Square Enix may have given the Dissidia Final Fantasy the pretentious moniker of being about 'dramatic progressive action' but for all intents and purposes, it's a fighting game that celebrates everything Final Fantasy. Nowhere else can you fight against Cloud Strife as Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning or beat the living snot out of Squall Leonhart as Sephiroth. The core mechanics of the series may be brain-meltingly obscure when you first try to understand the millions of different numbers and text present on the user interface, but a few good matches will iron out the confusion and enable you to enjoy one of the PlayStation Portable's greatest titles. It's now a series thanks to the sequel released in 2011, and here's to hoping that it eventually leaves its handheld console trappings, and becomes a fully-fledged console title for current-gen. Dissidia exists for fan-fiction lovers, it's a game that unashamedly lets Final Fantasy fans live out their greatest fantasies matching up any combinations they can think of as far as their favourite characters are concerned.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
