No. It's an action RPG with a miniature world map, chocobos, airships, mission-based structure and all that shebang. It's more of a traditional FF than FFXIII in many ways, though it's battles are more action-y.
Yeah, they are such a horrible company for listening to their fans and bringing a game over to what is a large potential audience. Buu fucking huu.
And lol, there's much more to bringing Type-0 over than what you understand. Opportunity cost is pretty big, localization itself can be extremely expensive (especially for a text & voice acting heavy RPG like Type-0, the game has, after all, the largest or at least one of the largest VA casts of any FF ever), there's the QA that needs to be done properly, they'd have to put some serious effort into marketing it (that alone can easily have a budget in the millions, especially for a big franchise like FF, and you don't have to go anywhere near GTA/CoD level ridonculous marketing efforts) and distribution itself is not cheap. 2 million is seriously low-balling it a fuckton.
I think they did bring up the localization in the Japanese Final Fantasy Type-0 Ultimania book that goes in-depth with FFs. They said they know a lot of people want it outside of Japan and they are trying to think of ways of making it happen or something like that.
No, that's not a fact at all. FF fans kept the interest going. Vita isn't the home of FF or anything, so it's probably false to claim that they are somehow the largest group of people whom without the localization would never have happened.
Whenever I asked for Type-0 to be brought over through various channels, I didn't ask for it as a Vita owner/fan even though I own it and even though, sure, I thought Vita was a strong possibility as the platform for the localization/port. I always did it as a Final Fantasy fan and I couldn't give a flying fuck if it was a quick PSP digital localization, a Vita port, a 3DS port or a Type-0 HD PS3(60) port. I think it's far likelier that a majority of fans who've been asking for Type-0 are those kind of people instead of Vita owners who will never ever want to own any of the current gen platforms.
Final Fantasy Type-0 is bigger than its platform. People kept asking for it because it's FF. All of those Twitter "tell us what games you want" things attracted a lot of people who didn't own a PSP or Vita to ask for Type-0, it wasn't purely just Vita owners. Fans of FF, Square Enix & good action RPGs in general want to play it and I'm pretty sure a majority don't give a fuck if it's Vita or 3DS or PS4, they just want a localization to exist in any way possible and I'd think a PS4Bone release makes a lot more people happy (since people actually want a PS4 & Xbone) than releasing it on one of the worst selling platforms of all time that will probably be dead pretty soon.
