Seems like they learned from their mistake (that's what i call it) from FF X-2 and are making games with the same number but no relation to each other's story at all. This is most eveident in the FF XIII trilogy (agito's on a cell phone. Darn you SE). This looks like (from the characters in the trailer) to be before FF XII, becuase they look younger. Or it could be that this is an alternate story to FF XII, and they couldn't (can't) get that much character detail on the DS, becuase it is a portable. Hopefully, making this game simplar won't diminish the overall quality of the game.

If wikipedia is right, then this takes place after FF XII. It says that Ashe in FF XII is 19, and that Vaan is younger, meaning that he is either 17 or 18 (guessing here). In FF XII Revenant wings, it says he is 18 and

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He is an 18-year-old pirate with his own airship with Penolo as his 17-year-old navigator. In the FF XII page, is says at the end he finally gets a small one man airship.

It doesn't give the ages for the characters (at least Vaan and Penelo) so we can't make the comparison for sure.

Edit: NVM, it looks like the ages are on the Final Fantasy Neo Portal. So this is a year after FF XII.

No, i was just using her as a comparison to Vaa's age. She is in XII, and she is 19, older than Vaan, meaning he would probably be 18. I don't remember reading or saying that she was in Revenant Wings. I was using that to say that RW was after XII, but don't need to anymore becuase i found the ages of the characters in XII.

So that means that possibly this game could go back and have random battles again? It would make it simplar for the player and seem less intimidating for first time FF gamers.

Well, the battle system in FF XII may seem a little intimidating to people new to the series. I prefer random battles anyway.

I like the DS becuase it can play DS and GBA games. The PSP i would get because you can play music and movies on it, but you can do that on the iPod i'm getting. But still, the DS, IMO, has a better selection of games on it than the PSP. I would get a PSP for the Metal Gear games.

Well, far as i know, this hasn't been released anywhere yet, so it should be release in the US and other places as well. The only FF game that didn't release outside Japan was FF III, and that recently saw a DS remake. I'm sure this will be released outside of Japan.