

During the story, the player controls the ten warriors chosen by Cosmos, the protagonists from the first ten Final Fantasy games, in their journey. The two summon multiple warriors to fight for their sides in their thirteenth war. The game features characters from different Final Fantasy games and centers on a great conflict between Cosmos, goddess of harmony, and Chaos, the god of discord. It was then re-released as an international version in Japan, based on the North American port, as Dissidia Final Fantasy: Universal Tuning, on November 1, 2009.

It was released in Japan on December 18, 2008, in North America on August 25, 2009, in Australia on Septemand in Europe on September 4, 2009. It's not the worst arena fighter, but it can be pretty frustrating and tedious to get into.Dissidia Final Fantasy is a fighting game with action RPG elements developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign for the Final Fantasy series' 20th anniversary. It doesn't help that the game's tutorial trolls you with an unbeatable enemy in respond to claiming you've mastered the previous game. There's a bit of meat in the character customization, but the game starts off slow and other modes are practically impossible to beat on Normal difficulty if you don't have any moves and equipment to add to characters.

All things considered, the gameplay is rather shallow and encourages a lot of turtling due to how parries and dodges work. The game has a Story Mode, Arcade Mode, and full character customization that allows you equip items and change the attacks and supports characters have access to. It is technically possible to beat opponents in one Bravery attack under such circumstances. Combat involves some cinematic chase moves here and there, but it's mostly about dealing enough damage to put the opponent into Bravery Break so you can earn enough Bravery points to deal significant real damage to the opponent's HP. Players lock on to each other with the L button and R acts as a parry for incoming attacks. Players can also interact with the environment in combat with triangle to run on walls and other such acrobatic stunts and jump with the X button. Players attack with the circle button to build up Bravery points that strengthens the damage of their Bravery attacks performed with the square button.

Dissidia 012 Duodecim Final Fantasy is a 3D arena fighter similar to games like Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi.
