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Square Enix has released a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII, showing impressive CGI cinematics and some very acrobatic turn-based battles.
The footage can be seen on the official Final Fantasy XIII website, either in big or small size, to use the technical terms.
The trailer is in Japanese, but the visuals set the scene well enough; an enormous and technologically advanced metropolis filled with futuristic baddies and trains that put the Virgin Bullet to shame.
Our two heroes - the acrobatic female Lightning and blonde brawler Snow - eventually meet and find themselves facing off against all manner of foes: humanoids, robo-tigers and cyborgs.
Unperturbed, our champions set about duffing up the baddies using all manner of attacks, such as hitting them high into the sky and bopping them about like punch-bags. There appears to be a reactionary system involved that makes the action feel a little more real-time, too.
Then we're back to CGI and the trailer comes to an end, with the promise of a 2009 Japanese launch.
Unfortunately we're still no closer to narrowing down European plans, and whether the completed PS3 version will be held back in order to launch simultaneously with the yet-to-be-started Xbox 360 game.
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ZxdarkstarxZ
28/01/09 @ 16:38
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I love final fantasy and i think this looks sweet ^^ so glad they are bringing it out on 360 as well as ps3 =]
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http://www.finalfantasy13game.com/
European official site with subtitles. In case it still shows a counter, reload. |
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MasterNameless
28/01/09 @ 17:05
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"Please please please - Japanese version with English subtitles? Pretty please? "
+1000000 The horrible english dubs always remove so much of the atmosphere for me, so I really hope they do this. They probably won't though. I italicised the 'for me' bit there so we don't get dragged into the incredibly tedious sub/dub argument again, it's all personal preference... well, mostly. It's nice this is out on the 360 too, but will probably get the PS3 version as it's the true home of the FF series. Saying that though, if there is a surprise online element, then it's 360 all the way. Although it is still tempting just for the party chat/friends list... argh! |
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chessboxer
28/01/09 @ 17:15
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I won't be buying this (ActionRPG's >>> Turn-based) but it does look fucking amazing. This raises my hopes for Versus XIII when it comes out in 2011.
Sorry to piss on your camp fire but there is no chance of the Japanese game having English subs. |
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If they delay for the PS3 version for the bloody 360 I'll be gutted. Looks great though, and hopefully make up for 12 being meh.
another +100000 for Japanese voices / english sub. It can never be overstated how much better an option it is compared to subbing.
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I like both Final Fantasy X and XII combat personally, so either will work for me. The Gambit system in XII actually highlights how having AI help doesn't always have to be such a burden (and I'm rather disappointed other RPGs haven't used it either, especially Western RPGs like Mass Effect with its stupid ass AI).
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SixFootHalfling
28/01/09 @ 21:23
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The battle system looked to me to be very similar to the system in IV on the DS.
That is it's a hybrid turn based system, where a party members speed stat relates to how lond it takes a bar to fill, and the player can only move the party member when this is full, the bar then refills to cast a spell, etc, whereas attacks are instantaneous. The bar appeared to be at the bottom right, under the health bars. tbh I liked this system as it allowed for a lot of depth, enabling you to plan attacks so that they all hit at once, spread them to reduce counters, or save the healer for an extra 10 secs to ensure they heal after the enemy AI attacked, etc. Yes I know the description makes it sound shit but it does actually work, honest. |
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chessboxer
28/01/09 @ 21:36
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I think Versus XIII will be early 2011 in Japan (maybe Christmas 2010 but I doubt it) with an EU/NA launch closer to Christmas 2011. You're kidding yourselves if you thinks it's coming out any earlier.
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From what I heard, they are using the time that they use to localize FF13, to port the 360 version. So for US and EU the launch for the PS3 and the 360 version will be the same.
Well in any case I'm looking forward to this one again... just couldn't play FF12, I hated the battle system, which is a shame for me since I love the graphics it had. :( |
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FOSTERSMAN
28/01/09 @ 23:22
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thats all well n good but how many discs will the 360 version ship on?
lost odessey had 4 n that got boring on the first disc let alone number 4! |
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I would prefer it in Japanese with English subtitles, at least it would come out in UK at the same time, I am glad it's coming out on 360 also, but I am still going to get it on PS3. (I have both machines by the way)
I stopped getting excited about Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy IX, but this is awesome, reminds me of Final Fantasy VII, Active Time Battle, Science fiction and Fantasy mix. Amazing. |
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chessboxer
29/01/09 @ 01:28
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@ Burkey123
FFXIII then Versus XIII then Agito XIII. That is the order they will be released. One cannot and will not come out until the previous game has been released so PSP fans will be getting Agito XIII in 2011, possibly 2012. Loosely, FFXIII tells a story (I'm not going into the whole Crystal saga). Versus XIII tells another side of the same story (Versus is just different and darker) and Agito XIII tells yet another side and it's supposed to have a multiplayer element to it. |
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I have a rather ambivalent attitude towards most JRPGs - I usually enjoy the turn based combat a lot, but the typical androgynous, emo teen protagonists and melodramatic storylines and dialogue tend to make me want to puke every hour or two.
This video looks pretty damn great though - and I like the sci-fi setting - so I guess there's little doubt I'll end up buying the game. I just hope it won't go too heavy handed on all the negatives I just listed above. So far it looks like the male characters at least aren't 15 year old boys posing as angst ridden excuses for seasoned warriors, but I can't really say the slick, boyish gay... sorry, guys in that video looks like characters I'm likely to be particularly fond of either. I hope the female character we see a lot is going to be the main protagonist - women/girls in JRPGs don't tend to have the same vomit inducing effect on me as the guys. Hopefully all my reservations will be put to shame. But then I've been hoping for that every time I've bought a JRPG. I really sort of wish I hated the gameplay as well so I just wouldn't bother at all :). |
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farticusmaximus
29/01/09 @ 09:19
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"Not being funny"
Your right, that statement is not funny. It is stupid though. |
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@farticusmaximus
How is it even remotely stupid? Have you not heard that the 360 is well known for hardware failiures? I wasnt trying to provoke anyone, I was just wondering what people thought about it. People seem to have the RROD problem with various things but perhaps running intensively graphical games will heighten the problem. Its not stupid to think about. Its logical.
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farticusmaximus
29/01/09 @ 09:43
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@Vistrix
"I wasnt trying to provoke anyone, I was just wondering what people thought about it." Bullshit. It was a stupid fanboy troll post and you know it. |
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Penguins20
29/01/09 @ 11:15
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@ Miths
I too hope for no more androgenites, It's been getting a little silly recenctly. Vaan had to be introduced with the tagline "He's a guy, honest" on most of the websites I looked at previews on. Hopefully Square have learned lessons from Crisis Core (a game about manly men fighting a prancing, poetry reading bloke) about making their male characters better. It would also be nice to have some more complicated motivations for characters than "I am a Princess...I must save my Kingdom" or "I must protect the princess as it is my duty" (See: Ashe, Garnet, Basch, Steiner, Kimahri, and many others...). The futuristic setting will hopefully dicourage this, however. Overall, looking good so far! |
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actionfitz
29/01/09 @ 11:53
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I think my Eyes just came.
"and whether the completed PS3 version will be held back in order to launch simultaneously with the yet-to-be-started Xbox 360 game." I would say thats a certainty - lest microsoft allow sony to ship loads of PS3's to people who'll buy one just to play this game. (hides in a corner looking shifty). |
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PierrePressure
29/01/09 @ 12:25
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I'm after a darker story line ala VII and VII rather than the fantasy tosh...funnily enough.
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