Square Enix without doubt were one of the most decorated companies present at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. This article contains all the details and news for Tokyo Game Show 2008.

“Ready for GAME Time!”

This year’s event hosted in Makuhari Messe (Mihama-ku, Chiba City) boosted 209 exhibtors, 1768 booths with 879 titles. A number which exceeds the record of last year’s 702 titles present. With the business days cut down to 2 (Thursday 9th October - Friday 10th October) general admission was allowed for the remaining 2 days (Saturday 11th October - Sunday 12th October).

Square Enix TGS ‘08 booth Map:

1. Open Mega Theater
2. Closed Mega Theater
3. Chocobo Photography Area
4. Cid and Chocobo’s Dungeon DS+ Demo 5. Chocobo and the Magic Storybook Demo 6. Chrono Trigger Museum
7. Square Enix Mobile titles
8. Snoopy DS Demo 9. Pingu DS Demo
10. Valkyrie Profile DS Demo 11. Square Enix Xbox 360 RPG Projects
12. Goods and Music CD Area
13. Dissidia Final Fantasy Demo 14. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Demo 15. Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days Demo

Square Enix’s Full line up:

Trailer/Playable:
• Snoopy DS (Nintendo DS)
• Cid and Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon DS+ (Nintendo DS)
• Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One (Nintendo DS)
• Pingu’s Exciting Carnival (Nintendo DS)
• Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)
• Chocobo Tales - The Witch, the Girl, and the Five Heroes (Nintendo DS)
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Sony PSP)
• Dragon Quest IX (Nintendo DS)
• Final Fantasy IV: The After (Mobile)

Trailer Only:
• The Last Remnant (Xbox 360)
• Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360)
• Chrono Trigger (Nintendo DS)
• Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3)
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PlayStation 3)
• Final Fantasy Agito XIII (Sony PSP)
• The 3rd Birthday (Sony PSP)
• Final Fantasy XI (Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2)
• Song Summoner (iPod)
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete (Blu-Ray)
• Kingdom Hearts: Coded (Mobile)

Playable Only:

• Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road (Arcade)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Mobile (Mobile)
• Itadaki Street Mobile (Mobile)

TBC: (no mention if a trailer/demo will be shown)

• Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Xbox 360)
• ELLARK (Mobile)

Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show 2008 Major News:

Final Fantasy XIII
- Only the first few batches of Final Fantasy Advent Children: Complete will contain the Final Fantasy XIII PS3 demo.
- Final Fantasy XIII TGS ‘08 Premiere included a few new cutscenes with the music composer present.
- Nomchan/”Pigtails girl” is called Sarah/Senon.
- Final Fantasy XIII may have online sidequests.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Prince is called Noctis (of the night)/Girl with skirt is called Stella (star).

Final Fantasy Agito XIII
- Agito for the mobile phone could be scrapped making it PSP exclusive.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy
- Dissidia PSP bundle revealed.
- Cloud and Terra confirmed for game cast.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Releasing February 2009 in Europe.
- Releasing 19th February 2009 in japan

Star Ocean: The Second Evolution
- Releasing Spring 2009 in Europe

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
- Releasing February 2009 in Japan

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