Square Enix hints at FFXIII-2

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 4 October, 2010

Wants "story where Lightning ends up happy".

Square Enix "wants" to do "something" that will allow players to "further understand" the Final Fantasy XIII story – and it could be a sequel.

In an interview with the wonderfully-titled Final Fantasy XIII Ultimania Omega, Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase said he wants to pass along the Fabula Nova Crystalis mythology and show things that won't make it into the other games in the Crystalis collection: Final Fantasy Agito XIII and Versus XIII.

Could this be a Final Fantasy XIII-2? asked the interviewer (as translated by Andriasang). Kitase said he wasn't sure. It all depends, apparently, on "fan reaction". Well fans, how do you react?

Director Motomu Toriyama added: "I'd like to at some point make a story where Lightning ends up happy." Plot thickens.

Final Fantasy XIII is, of course, devoid of downloadable content. In the same interview the game's creators said next time DLC will be a "priority".

And when will we see the next game from the Final Fantasy XIII team? According to Kitase, the staff follows a company policy of making games at a pace of one title every two years.

The divisive Final Fantasy XIII managed an 8/10 in Eurogamer's March review.

An Ultimate Hits International edition will bring Final Fantasy XIII to Japanese 360s for the first time.

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  • toythatkills #1 2 years ago

    Fuck that.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #2 2 years ago

    Please GOD no!

    Just move on and leave this futuristic emo shit behind!!

  • OnlyMe #3 2 years ago

    Uhm, is that a spoiler for FFXIII? Sounds like there's a sad ending coming up.

  • Bernkastel #4 2 years ago

    Bollocks. The ending was fine.

    And please, don't ever make DLC "a priority".

  • Goodfella #5 2 years ago

    @Ignatius Cheese

    You read my mind, or vice versa.

  • CosmicFuzz #6 2 years ago

    Urgh. Don't think I'd bother if they did. Can barely remember any of the story nevermind what happened to Lightning in the end.

  • Cid #7 2 years ago

    If it keeps Kitase away from FFXV then I'm all for it.

  • Vanmunt #8 2 years ago

    There was a story in FF13?

  • karooo #9 2 years ago

    More Lightning is good :p

    Although I enjoyed FFXIII better story would have been awesome. So this is actually a good idea.

  • I\'mListening #10 2 years ago

    No, no, no, no, no,no, NOOOOOO!

  • M_of_the_sys #11 2 years ago

    @Vanmunt

    Yes. The story was, train crashes, you jump out and fight people (some of them with dog things) and that's where it ended... for me anyway.

  • siro #12 2 years ago

    Unlike most, I liked FF13.
    Still, I don't remember the ending.

    So I'd probably play FF13-2 if they make it, but please, don't worry about the DLC. I'm not going to get that anyway.

  • karooo #13 2 years ago

    Maybe Hope grows up xD and Lightning ends up happy.

  • siwrath #14 2 years ago

    who said anything about wanting more XIII...

    VII remake is the way forward

  • jag10 #15 2 years ago

    every final fantasy after 10 has been shit. fuck happened did they have an employee change or something.

  • karooo #16 2 years ago

    Square soft made FFX. Square Enix made the rest so that explains it I guess.

  • Whitster #17 2 years ago

    If you feel you need a sequel to allow players to "get" your story better you've failed on a critical element of fictional storytelling.

  • Tonne #18 2 years ago

    FFXIII, ive been playing these game for 6 months now, i cant seem to stay put and play the damn game. it's boring!
    this is by far the worst FF game of all time,
    when the PS1 games came out. i played them till my fingers bled.
    and now i need every ounce of will just to play the damn game for 10 min.
    where are the classics like 7, 8, and 9

  • HermitArcader #19 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • rodpad #20 2 years ago

    I'd rather FFX-3 please.

  • BouFushidara #21 2 years ago

    This was the worst FF ever! Couldn't be botherd with the game. It had no story line, nothing to do but wish that hope really would just die all throughout the game... or atleast to the point where i got to. Battle system ment that no one needed any sort of skill to play the game.
    Its as if when square soft and enix joined all the square people just upped and left.
    Sorry for the rant, I just miss the good old Final Fantasy's (VII, VIII, IX). Amazing story line, great battles, and loads and loads to do.

    I want chocobo racing!

  • Markitron #22 2 years ago

    I actually liked FFXIII. I knew what I was getting into after reading the reviews. I had to make an effort to understand the story fully but the combat was fantastic (eventually). I dont really see the need to continue on the story as it ended well and at a natural point.
    Edited by Markitron at 04/10/10 @ 09:41

  • BritishBlue1 #23 2 years ago

    Yeah I hope they do a re-make, it sure as hell needs one because FFXIII was easily the worst Final Fantasy I've ever played. Hopefully they won't hobble the combat system for over half the game this time.

  • andywilkie35 #24 2 years ago

    Why the fuck will DLC be a priority "next time"? Just give me the finished game you cunts!

  • Toothball #25 2 years ago

    Presumably when they say they want Lightning to end up happy, they plan to make her happy by allowing the player to dress her up in all manner of exciting new outfits and go on adventures with the rest of the female cast. Looking forward to it!

  • Jon1292 #26 2 years ago

    I couldn't bare to complete the first one, the battle system was so incredibly boring I did everything I could to avoid battles. And eventually it all caught up with me and I cannot beat one of the bosses.
    But there's no way I'm grinding with a battle system that poor.

  • JBlokeUK #27 2 years ago

    Personally I loved FFXIII, one of my most enjoyable games of the last 5 years or so, but not so sure about this. And yes definitely do NOT make DLC a ''priority''.

    FFVII remake would seem more appealing.

  • shinki #28 2 years ago

    No thanks. Just get to work on making 15 bigger and better than 13.

  • menage #29 2 years ago

    Not more of this crap.

  • login_name #30 2 years ago

    Didn't play XIII, didn't like what I read about it and most of the videos made it look like a crappy kids cartoon. FF is no longer the must play franchise it once was, ever since VIII (which was the first shit FF imo) and the huge push to please the West. Never did play IX though and I beileve that is good. VII was ok but personally I don't think they've ever recreated the charms of the old 2D games in 3D and I doubt they ever will.

  • viper_h #31 2 years ago

    I also enjoyed XIII and I'd play a sequel, but Lightning didn't seem particularly unhappy at the end of XIII. She got her sister back who consequently was getting married, so that's all nice, right?

  • GamesConnoisseur #32 2 years ago

    I understand the story just fine, my problem is that it's almost all gloss and not enough gameplay.

    Square Enix is the one who needs to understand that gamers has moved on, just doing the same formula over and over with just enhanced visuals and tweaks in combats just won't wash.

    Sure, I lie slightly, they actually moved the formula around a bit, but in the wrong direction, too dumbed down and led by the nose all the way through!

    I goddamned finished the game by the way, I replayed Mass Effect 2 4 times but couldn't bring myself to restart FFXIII or to continue with hunt beyond token few after the famed end credits.

  • geeza2020 #33 2 years ago

    If FF13 is the best Square can do these days I hope they never ever try to remake FF7. If they tried to put the same type of ridiculously shit battle system into FF7 i think i would cry...

  • PierrePressure #34 2 years ago

    Based on "fan reaction"...

    I'm pretty sure they don't want a sequel to XIII of all Final Fantasy games.

    Remake/Do a sequel to FFVII already.

  • deano2099 #35 2 years ago

    Final Fantasy XIII actually has quite a fun and deep combat system, and a decent if not brilliant character progression system. The problem is that, in terms of mechanics, that's all it has. There's very little exploration, very little talking to people, very few non-linear dungeons, virtually no mini-games... the fighting itself is good, but when that's all you have for an 80-hour game it gets tiring pretty quickly. It's like they forgot to put the rest of the game in.

  • geeza2020 #36 2 years ago

    @TonyCorleone - well, you touch on one of the most gamebreaking flaws in the battle system in your above post. You can only directly control one character at a time in battle, and if that character dies, its game over the whole party. Why? You can carry on if your other two party members die, but if you die, thats it game over. Why did square not see this as a problem? And I have also experienced huge difficulty spikes at random times that seem to totally recede after a certain battle (Vanille's eidolon battle comes to mind). Then there is the just totally unrewarding weapon upgrade system. Why should I have to wait nearly three quarters of the game before it is feasible to upgrade my weapons? (I know you obtain other weapons at different stages of the game, but they are nearly all awful until you upgrade them).

    There was just too many bugs in the game for me to ever really like it. Also the story and voice acting is atrocious throughout. I haven't been able to like a character in a FF game since FF9 for this very reason. Give me text boxes to read over angsty teen american voice overs any day!

  • RexRunti #37 2 years ago

    It's strange that with all these JRPGs changing to appeal to the west my favourite of recent years, Lost Odyssey, is very traditional.

    I don't have a problem with linearity in games provided there is a good story, or the linearity is used to make a fun game (like the set pieces in Call of Duty etc). The problem with FFXIII was it was mindless slog with a rather boring story and a battle system that felt like all you were doing nothing more than switching the mode on a bunch of robots, then linearity abruptly pauses in an open area that feels like a poorly designed MMO missing all the players, where again you're expected to grind.

    DLC may be a priority on the next game but unless it's a huge improvement I don't think I'm going to bother.

  • cafferkey #38 2 years ago

    FFXIII could of been a open world game being less linear like FFX or FFXII but it would of cost a fortune in time and money to make using FFXII quality graphics.. I would of quite happily of taken a drop in graphical quality for a less linear game but Square Enix do not compromise with graphical quality....

  • Antaios #39 2 years ago

    Fine, do whatever you like, just keep Kitase and Nomura away from the franchise for the rest of their lives.

  • Silent-Hal #40 2 years ago

    I liked Final Fantasy XIII well enough, but the game did a horrible job at fleshing out its characters and world. Hopefully Versus and Agito can rectify that some.

  • bradley-strider #41 2 years ago

    I loved Final Fantasy 13 for what it was. Its so different from anything else and thats a good thing. I love the style, the graphics, the combat and the story.
    I would say that this is the best game i played. Its an audio-visual masterpiece and the combat is very strategical. One wrong decision and you re dead in the later fights.

    I would would love a sequel, especially a direct one. I hoped it form the moment i realized how good it actuaully is, because its not the most likely for FF -Titles to have a sequel but the story of Lighting and the others (Hope and Sazh parts were really cool too) sucked me into this world. This is just the one thing i want and i would love it to come true. Besides i know that people that usually dont post in forums would buy it too. I played it every evening for like 2 hours and it was such a blast. Its perfect for a whole month of evening entertainment. really, you dont have to rush it, take it slow and you will get the most out of it. Thats my take on this brilliant title.
    Edited by bradley-strider at 04/10/10 @ 15:28

  • orangpelupa #42 2 years ago

    FFXIII-2? since Square merge with enix then become Square Enix.... That was FF X-2. and for me, it is a BAD game.

    btw if FF XIII-2 will really be released, and again come to xbox. Please make a proper port this time..... And REGION FREE!
    My country got the Asia region, so no FF XIII for us here.

  • patchbox360 #43 2 years ago

    @bradley-strider

    how much did you get for your soul?

  • cobaltfram #44 2 years ago

    For some reason, the idea of DLC in a Final Fantasy game, or any hardcore JRPG, depresses me. Say you what you will about their stories, their gameplay mechanics often run like incredibly well-oiled clocks, with the feeling that nothing could be added or taken away. The idea of some players with a few extra dollars another person might not have (or the means to download the DLC) would have a different (perhaps, better?) experience seems strange to me. It's like either selling a clock without a pendulum, or selling a complete clock but then selling extra hands for it.

  • Diogo_Ribeiro #45 2 years ago

    Leave VII to die and move on already.

  • Centrifugal #46 2 years ago

    I'd love this. The universe of XIII was fantastic, and I'd enjoy playing in it some more. Fix the linearity and it would be fantastic.

  • Cheapshot #47 2 years ago

    Final Fantasy needs to be finally be fucking final! It needs to die, seriously! Nobody at Square-Enix "gets" Final Fantasy any more, even the bloody creator!

    I'm sick of the haircuts, and sick of Square-Enix's obsession with appealing to a cunt demographic. The developers aren't interested in doing what THEY want to do any more, FFXIII was so lifeless and docile - the lack of passion and lack of Nobuo Uematsu's trademark atmospheric-as-hell tunes was obvious. Squenix, can you stop squashing my happy memories of loving your games to bits, because right now to don't have a bloody clue and seem pretty content with tarnishing the FF name.

    Buggers...!

  • Cloud-Strife #48 2 years ago

    I liked ffxiii. Sure it wasn't as good as 6,7,8,9, 10, but it was a helluva lot better than 12, story wise. I don't get why people here are saying it didn't have a story, it had a huge story.

    Just take this scene like...Spoiler.

    [link url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9lbz1fqcNQ
    ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9lbz1fqcNQ
    [/link]

    And as for a sequel...Lightning was happy at the end of the game? Or do they intend to introduce some dude or girl so she can get laid or something? o_O

  • mooseti #49 2 years ago

    Eugh, why why why? I lost the fantasy (pun intended) of liking ff13 at the beginning of disc 3.

  • Chufty #50 2 years ago

    Way to spoiler

  • GrizzleBoy #51 2 years ago

    How about you finish Versus/Agito or Agato or wtf ever its called already.

    Then we can talk about making sequels to the worlds largest piece of evidence that multiplat = POS (compared to failed potential).

  • BuddyChrist #52 2 years ago

    So she'll get that pop career she's always dreamed of?!

    ....epic fail