After a fast online translation we can say that there are no new images and no new information. Treat everything I write as unconfirmed since the translation mess it up.

Mr.Toriyama talks about the evolution from PS2 to PS3 and compare it to the PSX to PS2 upgrade. He tells us how the PSX lacks the expressions in faces and how hard it was to create that in the first Final Fantasy for PS2. It’s the same challenge to create the new white engine for PS3.

He says some words about the theme in Final Fantasy XIII, but I’m hardly the right man to translate that. You can come to a conclusion yourself.

As for theme of the story of FF13 when “determination” and many degrees face the desperate scene the protagonist where faces truth resistance, and determination to trouble and the circumstance, this the story of FF13 the principal axis.

Source: FF&KH Blog

Well we had a little trouble with our news and we lost a few of our older articles. Unfortunately theres no way to recover them as we had no backup but we'll try and make sure we don't have the same problem in the future.

However I've scanned in a new article from Play US magazine. Same old summary of TGS explaining what a dissapointment it was. It also talks about some of the other titles Square had at TGS aswell. At least we have Jump Festa to wait for now!

Play US Scan

Kitmitsu had some psychic powers when he foresaw the upcoming of FFXIII at Jump Festa. Square put out a list of different games they will show to the public. It’s nothing about Versus in this one, so expect the trailer to be further delayed.

• Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
• Dawn of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 4)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
• Final Fantasy VI Advance
• Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ and RE: Chain of Memories

Jump Festa 2007 will take place December 16-17 this year.

Source: FFRepublic.com

A French site claims they have some information on progress of different game titles from Square-Enix. It comes from a Japanese magazine called Otona Fami. Good thing we now know how far they are.

• Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3): 13%
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PlayStation 3): 1.3%
• Itadaki Street DS (Nintendo DS): 50%
• Final Fantasy XII Ghost Wings (Nintendo DS): 40%
• Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (PlayStation 2): 130% (2 games. KH2 + KH:CoM remix)

They got a good start with FFXIII, but poor Versus still lacks 98.7% of the game. :(

Source: Quickjump

I thought I'd add a little more to the site just to make sure we have all the information we could possibly need :P

I've added an Interview section which includes an interview from Dengeki and EGM back at E3 with the developers and a Known Issues section which reveals Square-Enix's mistakes with FFXIII so far! (like we could do any better). We'll be continuing to add to sections soon but it's hard with such little information.

The First CG screenshot for Agito has been released. It was in the Square-Enix pamphlet at this years TGS.

Here is a photo of it.

TGS Pamphlet Scan

There you can see FFXIII, FFVersusXIII, and a nice CG Picture of a blonde person next to Agito.

Well TGS is over now and it was pretty disappointing for fans of the FFXIII compilation. Very little new information was given and the only materials availble to the us were the new HD screenshots which we've already seen in Famitsu and the trailer. The Versus trailer was shown in the theatre and hasn't been made available to us yet. Lets hope that we get some new information in the coming months after FFXII's US release.

Thanks to all the people who updated the site during TGS!

Square have brought us a collection of Final Fantasy sculptures; one of them being our new favourite game character. Not painted up to date, probably since her equipment could have a makeover in the future. Square-Enix don’t want to confirm any name on her yet, as you can see that she is still named “heroine” on the description.

FFXIII Heroine Statue


Another fun thing I saw at the TGS, was one of the cosplayers had dressed up as our “heroine”. This is from Gamespot Live at TGS, part three. I downloaded a pack with 1600 images of booth babes and cosplayers to find her ^^, but sadly, she was not there. So you have to be thankful for a frame capture of her.

Update: Some real shots too now. And we can see that the other one is our guy from Versus.

FFXIII Cosplay framecapture
FFXIII Cosplay 1
FFXIII Cosplay 2
FFXIII Cosplay 3


Source: Gamespot Live

Behind the evil closed curtains, all the good stuff is hidden from the audience. Square-Enix has played a FFXIII video for the press. The video is an extended and updated version of the one in E3 2006. Pray for it to come to public.

In the previous trailer, though, her enemies were exclusively human; now, she's shown fighting against a number of monsters, as well.

Afterwards, a bit of footage appears where the woman directly engages another large monster, which somewhat resembles the Ifrit summon from Final Fantasy X, but in a bit of a blueish hue.

Source: Gamespot

Now, for those of you who wants to know more info about the third part of Final Fantasy Fabula Nova Crystallis; Agito, there was a trailer of it at TGS. There is only a summary of the video on 1up, so if anyone knows where to get a trailer of it, we would love to know.

The main character -- or at the very least, the character who served as the focus of the new Agito trailer -- is a blond teenage boy who walks into his academy and seemingly unleashes a disaster.

Agito appears to be a collaborative card-based RPG, likely a multi-player adventure in the vein of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

Its up to you people to say if its something to get hyped up of or not.

Source: 1up.com