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Every Day is Better With Two Scoops of Final Fantasy XIII

Posted by John Constantine



There’s some speculation out and about on the internets that, even though there’s going to be a Japanese playable demo in March, Final Fantasy XIII will not be released outside of Japan until 2010. That means a full four years will have passed between the game’s debut and when we actually get to play the game. That is just shy of a videogame console’s traditional lifespan. Clearly, Square-Enix hates us all. And since there’s nothing quite like salting a wound, S-E is releasing a magazine in Japan tomorrow entitled Re: Final Fantasy XIII. The mag has a bunch of art and screens that people have been staring at for some two and a half years already as well as a DVD with the trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII that were shown at last summer’s DKS3137 event behind closed doors. Yes, Square-Enix is making people pay for trailers for their games. That is not nice.

But, thankfully, the internet exists, and so, naturally, these trailers have already been ripped from the DVD and are free to watch right here.



This is the first time I’ve gotten to see this Final Fantasy XIII footage in such high quality and while the CG is beautiful, as expected, there isn’t even a millisecond of actual gameplay. No running around an overworld, no fights, no nothing. One day, we will find out if Final Fantasy XIII is indeed a game or if Tetsuya Nomura’s team has dropped all JRPG pretenses and just made something to watch.

The Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer is a bit more interesting since very little high quality footage of the game has leaked at all. Unfortunately, it too is all CG. Fancy CG, but CG nonetheless.



What’s the good word, FPSers? Think FF XIII is going to be worth the wait?

(Link: Final Fantasy XIII.net)

Related links:

Screen Test: Final Fantasy Versus XIII
E3 Day One: Microsoft, Sony, Final Fantasy, and For Whom the Bell Tolls
Square-Enix: Reeling in the Devotees For More, Playing the Console Market With Aplomb
Square-Enix's Coup Brings Back Memories
Screen Test: Dissidia – Final Fantasy


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Roto13 said:

Tetsuya Nomura is just the character designer for Final Fantasy XIII, so that's so bad. He's the director of Versus XIII, though, so despite being a big fan of Final Fantasy, I'll probably end up skipping that one. I wish he would just stick to make Kingdom Hearts as horrible as possible instead of trying to ruin Final Fantasy while he's at it. I think I read somewhere that after Versus XIII he won't be working on any Final Fantasy any more, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

So yeah, despite the fact that the main character of XIII seems to be Cloud with a more pronounced vagina, I think it'll be ok. Not so much with Versus XIII, though.

December 12, 2008 10:47 PM

John Constantine said:

I think the title of this post has been your personal motto since 1987, JC.

December 13, 2008 1:40 PM

Demaar said:

I wish Last Remnant would do well. Would teach Square that middleware is the future, and maybe they could start releasing games in a more timely fashion.

Roto13: I miss Amano too.

December 13, 2008 2:09 PM

Jes said:

Holy shit! The male characters actually look like they aren't overly muscled girls in this one! For the most part, anyway.

December 15, 2008 9:46 PM

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