The latest edition of Japanese gaming publication Famistu contains plenty of exciting information about Square Enix’s forthcoming Nintendo 3DS JRPG, Final Fantasy Explorers. We reported yesterday that the official website is now live, so if you’re a Final Fantasy fan be sure to check it out. Here’s the latest information.

More jobs confirmed

Can play as the Dragon Knight, Paladin, Thief, Ninja, Red Mage, Time Mage, and Bard

Assign a maximum of eight abilities to each button for use in battle

Famitsu describes Final Fantasy Explorers as a “lite” version of FinalFantasy XIV or Final Fantasy XI – Character positioning is important

Square Enix is including an ability chaining system – Once mastered, job-specific abilities can be used within other jobs –

Ability costs vary depending on which job a give character currently has – Ex: Black Mage will have black magic costs halved

Takes place on an island with various locations – Can walk to all of its adjoining lands – Can befriend monsters when you defeat them

A monster training element is being included – Since you have four max player slots, you can fill the remaining slots with monsters

Ex: 2 human players and 2 monster players – Said to last between 100-200 hours

Square-Enix is said to be developing the game with intention of expanding it into a proper action-RPG sub-series for Final Fantasy

Local and online co-op is supported