Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is an abomination of UI design

A Final Fantasy fighting game is a great idea. The series has had tons of memorable characters. Putting them together in a brawler should be great fan service. And in some ways, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is just that. But as I learned by playing the fighter’s beta on PlayStation 4, it’s also a disaster of poor design decisions.

NT, which comes out for the PlayStation 4 on January 30, is the third game in the Dissidia series. The other two came out for the PSP, Sony’s first portable system. The gameplay in NT, which is based on an arcade version of the series that only came out in Japan, is similar to its PSP predecessors … which were themselves confusing.