Pokemon in FF

[Xairos]

Lord of Vermillion in the Gold Saucer (*via Live letter)

Well not pokemon, just battle minigame using minions.

Bayhone Live Summary:

Gold Saucer-related

We’ll be adding new content known as "Lords of Verminion."
This was a joke brought up in the past in a Developers’ Blog post, but we actually went ahead and made it real.

Lords of Verminion is an RTS-like battle game where you use minions. You place minions in the field and once you decide where you want them to move they will automatically attack. This is why Minagawa has created a new option for gamepad controls.

It might be wise to go ahead and collect all the minions you can. However, it’s not like you won’t be able to win if you don’t possess rare minions, so don't worry. Also, we'll have a rating system for matching, so you'll be matched depending on your win rates.

Live Letter English Info Thread It is updated often throughout the Live Letter

Also from Live letter:

* Multi Try-On Feature
* Multi Slot Gear can be glamoured
* Ways to reclaim your land and house
* New FC content
* New 24 man Raid

[Roda]

Real time strategy???! O_o

[Garlyle]

I'M SO EXCITED THIS IS ACTUALLY BECOMING A THING

[Kotemon]

Yep, like I said elsewhere. got to collect them all.

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Lord of Verminion

[Itseotle]

Didn't they have something like this in Xi too? :P

[EdwinLi]

Guess they will be making more money from the Cash shop with the Cash Shop exclusive Minions now

Got to collect them all!

[myahele]

I predict the price of minions to be skyrocketing in the upcoming weeks, maybe even right now!

[Ultimatecalibur]

Guess they will be making more money from the Cash shop with the Cash Shop exclusive Minions now

Got to collect them all!

That will depend on how good the cash shop minions are compared to the more common minions. If they basically end up being alternate skins for minions we already have access to...

[BreathlessTao]

Apparently it was a joke in a Dev's Blog post. But they went ahead and made it. I'd still much rather have the NPC-relationship system instead of this, tbh...

Watch everyone rushing to this when it's released... and watch it die down extremely quickly. Reasons will be: having to get the minions we want to use again because they'll have to be special with stats and everything; not every minion will be usable; the whole thing will be an incredibly mind-numbing grindfest, just like TT and Chocobo racing - a frustrating mess instead of downtime fun.

Please look forward to it!