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When choosing whom to include in this latest DISSIDIA title, did any beloved characters and summons just barely miss the cut? If so, why?

There were lots of characters we wanted to put in but couldn’t.

We based the selection around the protagonists and antagonists from the FF games, so the battle to be included for the supporting-cast characters was pretty fierce.

The considerations that we based our decisions on included how easy it would be to reflect a character’s personality in DISSIDIA’s battle gameplay, and whether their fighting style would overlap too much with existing characters.

I would be here forever, even if I just listed the ones that I personally wanted to include, such as Rydia from FFIV, Zack from FFVII, Noel from FFXIII-2, and Delita from FFT.

For the summons, we picked the ones that are most well-known and considered the core members of the summon lineup across the series, and this was not too difficult to do.

We basically picked the ones that appear in the most FF games.

Some that just missed the cut were Titan (one of the most regularly appearing summons), Garuda (we wanted her for the element she embodies), Diabolos (a very unique summon and the most popular), and Phoenix (also unique and the second-most popular).

Takeo Kujiraoka, Game Director