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1	* AcclaimedFlop: Despite receiving overall decent to positive critical reception, the game sold poorly according to the developers. They hoped that the updates from 2018-2019 would produce good sales, but when that failed, the game was essentially abandoned.
2	* ActorAllusion: One of Rinoa's alternate costumes uses the color palette of the uniforms of Class Zero from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'', where her Japanese voice actress Creator/KanaHanazawa also voices Deuce, one of ''Type-0'''s fourteen playable characters.
3	* ExecutiveMeddling: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCNQpJasLQA According to BenjaMage's video here]], the more questionable design flaws (3v3 focus, bare minimum story mode, etc.) were due to the game development's lead pushing for it to be an esports game by copying other, successful ones in that genre. Needless to say, this didn't appeal to that audience and alienated both ''Final Fantasy'' fans and the MediaNotes/FightingGameCommunity, preventing it from even having a role at big tournaments like EVO, CEO, and Combo Breaker.
4	* FlipFlopOfGod: Early in production for the original arcade version, the game was said to be a ContinuityReboot of the ''Dissidia'' series, which was seemingly confirmed by the reveal of Materia and Spiritus as the new gods with a different sort of conflict. However, once the ''NT'' version got a proper storyline, this was axed, as the characters remember Cosmos and the cycles of war, and the Warrior of Light refers to Materia as "one who has inherited her will."
5	* MemeAcknowledgement: Garland's famous "knock you all down" is given explicit reference in ''NT'', via an optional chat message (the entire quote verbatim) and the title received for getting him to Lv 10 (He Who Knocks Down)
6	* PreOrderBonus: Pre-ordering ''NT'' got you one of three special steel book cases. Depending on where you pre-ordered, you could also have gotten a special weapon for Garland or Cloud.
7	* RoleReprise: In addition to every returning character from previous ''Dissidia'' games retaining their respective voice actors (except for Garland, whose Japanese VA passed away, and Exdeath, who was [[TheOtherDarrin Darrin'd]] in Japan), as well as newcomers retaining their [=VAs=] from their respective games, Creator/PhilLaMarr reprises his role as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics Ramza Beoulve]] after ten years.
8	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
9	** The representative for ''XIV'' DLC wise was apparently heavily debated prior to the games release. The three characters originally discussed were Nael van Darnus, Zenos yae Gavlvus, and Alphinaud Leveilleur. Due to ''Stormblood'' being the current expansion at the time, it was decided that Zenos better fit into the game.
10	** With the game's active development getting discontinued as of March 2020, a lot of plans never came to fruition. Square Enix said on launch they had plans for the game five years out, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/dissidia/comments/901vvb/megathread_july_1719s_datamine/ datamining from 2019]] suggests they weren't kidding.
11	*** Data exists not only for the remaining characters left out from ''012'' (Laguna, Prishe, and Gilgamesh), but also suggests that [[VideoGame/CrisisCore Zack Fair]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Vivi]] were going to be included.
12	*** A lot of characters didn't get third costumes when the game ended, but the datamine shows that most everyone had a third costume planned. Y'shtola's datamined costume name, however, implied she would have gotten her Miner's garb from ''XIV'' instead of her ''Shadowbringers'' outfit.
13	*** In the end everyone has four HP attacks, but the datamine suggests characters would have gotten a fifth one. This is a particular sore point, as the names in the data imply that these fifth HP attacks were going to be their iconic {{Limit Break}}s (Fervid Blazer for Firion, Lion Heart for Squall, Blitz Ace for Tidus, etc).

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