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Famitsu has a short write up on all of the races and jobs in this soon-to-be-released new DS game. Now, my Japanese isn’t spectacular, but I’ll give an outline here.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Seal Grimoire, the sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, goes on sale in Japan in Q4 2007, and is TBA released everywhere else. Poo.

“Hiyumu”, the human-like race, are jack-of-all-trades, good at attack and support. The standard and simple race that’s probably good to have in a party.

“Moguri” hit up aerial-assault style jobs. Resembling mice and specializing in engineering skills, they’re the only ones that can surf in the clouds and drop wtfbombs on the enemy.

“Vuiera”, like Hiyumu, are a bit of all-rounders. They have rabbit-style ears and tend to be better for support and healing positions.

“Banga”, being covered in scales as they are lizard-like, are great at tanking, offensive assaults. They’re the ones that will suck up all that high-HP damage while everyone else is laying down the smack on things.

The “Mou”, are the opposites of Banga. They’re delicate but possess powerful magical abilities with which to nuke the living crap out of opponents. And quite honestly, I can’t even begin to tell what animal they look like. In this screen-grab they look kind of like Tails.

[Google mangles translates it here. And I just had to snipe one of their screen shots, they’re purdy …]

Part one talked about the early history of games. Visiting such systems as the Game Boy, the TurboExpress and Game Gear.

Also, a look at single-game systems such as Game & Watch. In part two, a look at the more recent history, indeed right up to modern game systems.

So, now, onwards! Read the rest of this entry »