First Final Fantasy 13-2 DLC announced

By Fred Dutton Published 31 January, 2012

Story-based extensions incoming.

The first batch of Final Fantasy 13-2 DLC launches on Xbox Live on 7th February and PlayStation Network the day after, publisher Square Enix has announced.

It's a Coliseum Battle titled Lightning & Amodar. These regular add-ons will pit the player against enemies from previous entries in the series, allowing you to recruit them into your party once they've been defeated. A price has not yet been confirmed.

Square also announced plans to release additional story episodes for some of the game's key characters, though wouldn't offer additional detail on exactly what to expect.

One of the game's endings offers up a 'To be continued...' tease. Is Square planning a downloadable epilogue? Or is Final Fantasy 13-3 on the way?

The game, which launches on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this week, won an 8/10 from Eurogamer.

"Hurling money at a development team that has been labouring without firm creative leadership for close to a decade now has led to a game that is, in many ways, as disjointed as its world, as rambling as its lead character," read Simon Parkin's Final Fantasy 13-2 review.

"In those fragments excellence, confusion, beauty, strangeness, wonder and loss may all be found."

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Comments (13) Latest comment 4 months ago

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  • LR100 #1 4 months ago

    Is there any harm in waiting for the game to come out before announcing stuff like this? You just run the risk of annoying people (although they'll probably be annoyed anyway).

  • roquey Verified Lead Quality Assurance Tester and Compliance Specialist, Universally Speaking #2 4 months ago

    If it adds as much content and borderlands dlc did, im in. if its fights to make the game easier? nahhh.

  • Gavilan #3 4 months ago

    Isn't FF 13-2 a DLC elbeit disc based already? Otherwise shouldn't it be called FF 14? ;)

  • afrogeez #4 4 months ago

    I hate DLC in the face. Delay the launch of the game and stick it all on the disc like the good old days. Or wait till there's enough for a new game then sell that.

  • bikmate #5 4 months ago

    @Gavilan FF14 is an MMO game
    Edited by bikmate at 31/01/12 @ 17:30

  • Gavilan #6 4 months ago

    @bikmate Ah right, soz not really been keeping up with the FF news of late.

  • abigsmurf #7 4 months ago

    If this DLC continues the main story, it's a massive dick move by Square Enix. If it covers a sub plot or creates its own self contained plot, that's not too bad.

    But then, this is the company that cut content from Deus Ex to have it as a pre-order 'bonus'. Here's a hint for Square Enix: next time you pull that and pretend it isn't cut content that's been restored, at least don't include the resolution to that 'DLC' in the main game's cinematics, highlighting how clumsily cut it was.

    For those interested I'm talking about the Tracer Tong mission.

  • miiiguel #8 4 months ago

    omg, so excited about this. Best thing ever since Bayonetta.

    Square still means highly polished and charismatic games, ok they pull the DLC stunt but I think it's fair, most people do the 2nd hand gig, so... it's only fair, it fucking works both ways.
    Edited by miiiguel at 31/01/12 @ 19:09

  • wattsn26 #9 4 months ago

    @roquey The Mad Moxxxi DLC was awful...all the other DLC was excellent

  • Neppy #10 4 months ago

    I hope it's just side stories (rumours were one about Sazh and his son), but regardless, I'd rather they get on with a new universe (FFXV) than make those DLC plans into FFXIII-3...

  • KanePaws #11 4 months ago

    SE might want to try making a good (or at least somewhat coherent) story before they start advertising the rest of that story as additional payed content.

  • Spong #12 4 months ago

    The DLC is the sole reason I'm not buying the game. There's talk of pre-order DLC and day one DLC, too much of it smacks of content that should be on the bloody disc.

    I'm sorry, this is a sad day for one of the longest running and most respected series. I never thought they'd sell themselves out like this.

  • Amistat #13 4 months ago

    DEAR GOD EVERYONE STILL HATES US!!! QUICK ANNOUNCE DLC WITH CLOUD IN IT!!! whew...problem solved...

    Calling it now, you can recruit Cloud. At least he'd be less out of place than the mog... Call me when Namco just buy these idiots out, maybe Tales of Fantasy would be good... Wait actually that could be awesome O.O