Prepare to be confused, Final Fantasy fans. In a way, Revenant Wings is a sequel to last year's Final Fantasy XII. It features the same game world, the same characters and - to some extent - the same visual style, not to mention airships, sky pirates, and espers. It even has that disturbingly saucy rabbit-eared woman that I know some of you out there will have checked out at least once before wondering whether you might need urgent psychiatric work. Barring the obvious fact that Revenant Wings is hosted on the comparatively feeble DS, these things might lead you to expect more of the stuff you loved in last year's PS2 epic. You'd be wrong. While it has many RPG trappings, the new FFXII is more of a strategy game. In fact, just to confuse you further, it's not even a strategy game in the established mould of Final Fantasy Tactics, because here the action isn't turn-based but real-time. Is the world ready for something as strange as a Final Fantasy RTS/RPG hybrid on the DS? Well, Square Enix has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making its game ready for the world.

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