December 2005

Here you can find news items that were posted on Hell and Heaven Net in the past.

All members from the Hell and Heaven Net staff whishes you a Happy New Year!! May 2006 be a good RPG year with some cool releases!

Recently Square Enix has announced on their PlayOnline website the multiplayer fee of Dirge of Cerberus. One month will cost 760 yen (about $6.50 USD/€5.50 EUR) and another 100 yen per character (about $0.80 USD/€0.70 EUR).

From the Hell and Heaven Net staff we all wish you a Merry Chirstmas! You can expect no updates the next 2 days, so I can spend more time on other things like playing Final Fantasy XI and my family.

Kingdom Hearts II

Today the Japanese folks finally have the chance to play Kingdom Hearts II themselfs. It's been released there!
Oh, and Square-Enix has updated their Japanese KH2 website with some new stuff.

» Official Website

The release in the US and Europe is expected in March, so you'll have to wait 3 months, unless you're gonna import the game and learn Japanese. 

For people asking why they can't download the roms. They are temporary offline due to the huge amount of bandwidth they use. HHN has 60 GB bandwidth a month and on the 18th of December it used ¾ of the total bandwidth already. I rather put them offline then the site to be down a couple of days due to the bandwidth limit being exceeded.
The roms will be back hopefully at begin 2006. Maybe they won't, cause I think people are hotlinking to them, and I hate that.

Square Enix has revealed some new details regarding its upcoming gun action RPG Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. The game will not only tell the story of protagonist Vincent Valentine after the events of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, but also explain the remaining riddles of Vincent's past. In the game's tutorial mode, players will even be able to play as a young Vincent (who back then was still a member of the Turks).

During his new adventure, Vincent will face off with one particularly nasty type of Deepground Soldier. In addition to a heavy body armor, these foes wield bazookas, machine guns, swords and multiple other weapons. Today's update also revealed a new character. Nero is a mysterious Deepground soldier whose face is bandaged. His body radiates a strange dark aura.

Source: RPGFan

In Shounen JUMP, a Japanese magazine, the first details are revealed of Seiken Densetsu 4! The game will be, according to the magazine, a 3D action adventure. Nao Ikeda will take care of the character designs, which he already did in Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana and the upcoming action RPG Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana for Nintendo DS. The game will feature real time battles heavy on action elements and situation changes.

So far, 2 characters has been revealed. Eldi is a 16-year old hero, who's history is shrouded in mystery. He was found by villagers when he was a young child. The other character's name is Lichia and is also 16 years old. She lives in the same village as Eldi and her and both are childhood friends. Lichia is a priestress capable of listening to the voices of the planet and nature. Her pet is called Puck and became here pet after he got seperated from his family.
The adventure of the Eldi and Lichia begins in the aftermath of a sudden invasion at the hands of a foreign country's army.

Seiken Densetsu 4 will be released somewhere next year on PlayStation 2.

» Magazine Scan

Source: RPGFan

Square-Enix has opened a teaser website for the North American version of Grandia III, the game made by GameArts coming for PlayStation 2. The site doesn't have any information yet, only a release date for the trailer which will be on December 22nd.

» Grandia III Teaser website

Final Fantasy XII

Square Enix has revamped their Final Fantasy XII website and reopened it yesterday. Also more information about 2 new characters have been released named Vayne and Larsa.

Vayne Carudas Solidor is the 27 years old son of Gramis, the 11th emperor of Arcadia and heir to the throne. His father has 4 children, from which Vayne is the third. However his 2 older brothers died in battle.
Larsa is 12 years old and is the fourth son of Gramis and Vayne younger brother. He's second in line of the throne and tries hard to gain the respect of his father and older brother.

Final Fantasy XII will be released in Japan on March 16, 2006.

» Official Website