Destiny, here we come: Dissidia demo video on Story Mode chessboard

December 4, 2008

No better way to start the day than with some news item on Dissidia! If yesterday, we had scans, today, we get a video! Square Enix’s official website for the game was updated with a walkthrough video of how Story Mode works. It’s mostly in Japanese, but we already know what’s going on here: the video demonstrates how the chessboard (aka Dissidia‘s own reincarnation of the Sphere Grid or License Board) works – something we’ve already covered here. If you want to see all that in action, check out the vid in the full article!

No better way to start the day than with some news item on Dissidia! If yesterday, we had scans, today, we get a video!

Square Enix‘s official website for the game was updated with a walkthrough video of how Story Mode works. It’s mostly in Japanese, but we already know what’s going on here: the video demonstrates how the chessboard (aka Dissidia‘s own reincarnation of the Sphere Grid or License Board) works – something we’ve already covered here.

If you’re too busy to read that previous article, the basics are these:

each character gets his/her own chessboard field
your goal: get to the other end and fight the boss
Destiny Points (DPs) are your standard mode of travel around the board (just like AP or LP in FFX and FFXII)
enemies and items are found randomly on the grid – accessing these need only that you’re adjacent to their square
the big red X mark on the grid means you have a requirement to fulfill (say, clear all enemies or something) before it gets unblocked

You can check out the video via the source link, or if you don’t mind a video with slightly less quality, this YouTube embed would do: