Square Enix has announced a new game in the Final Fantasy XIII series at the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Event, bringing Lightnings story to an end.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is out! With it comes a final trailer which neatly compresses all the good bits of FFXIII-2 into one minute.
The long wait is over. We've finished our review copy and had a great time, so come read our impressions of Final Fantasy XIII-2.
The debut Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer has been revealed at the 1st Production Premier event and shown live on Nico Nico. Although more of a teaser, it includes Lightning fully clad in a suit of armour and ends with her standing back to back with a new male character. We can safely assume he’s the man in the logo. The games 2011 release date was then shown at the end of the trailer.
Update: And here’s a better quality version than before:
Update 2: Trailer removed by Square Enix. Posting it in our own player. Full HD version should be available tomorrow.
Update 3: Now officially released in High Definition.
The trailer will be released officialy in HD on the 20th. We’ll pos it as soon as it becomes available. Here’s an HD screenshot to tide you over as well as the new games logo.
It’s just been announced at the 1st Production Premier that Final Fantasy Agito XIII has now been renamed Final Fantasy Type-0 but apparently still remains part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation. Tabata says the reason behind the change is because Agito has little to do with the FFXIII compilation and this would allow them to develop Type-0 into an entire series of it’s own.
After this though, he managed to confirm that Type-0 will be coming out for PSP this summer in Japan.
At Square Enix’s 1st Production Department Premiere, a trailer was shown detailing the mythology behind the Fabula Nova Crystallis Projects. Not long after, Yoshinori Kitase came on stage and spoke about that same mythology saying that 4 or 5 years prior to Final Fantasy XIII being made, this mythology was put in place and allows the creators of each game in the series to freely interpret and present the base mythology.
He then went on to formally announce Final Fantasy XIII-2 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game will be worked on for both consoles simultaneously and it will be released later this year. Motomu Toriyama will be directing once again.
Source: Andriasang Pic: 4Gamer
A newly registered website “www.finalfantasy13-2game.com” has popped up and has been registered by “Corporation Service Company” which has in fact also registered the official sites for other Square Enix games in recent times; Mindjack, Nier, and Gun Loco to name a few.
Could this be a hint to the fan speculated Final Fantasy XIII-2? Or could this simply be a URL for the “Second” game in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series which many would consider to be Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Considering that Square Enix’s 1st Production Department Premier is only a week away perhaps we’ll get some answers regarding this soon and maybe a few surprises.
Who knows, but for now, you might want to take this news with a grain of salt.
Source: Kotaku
The exclusivity status of Final Fantasy Versus XIII is a long debated and overly drawn out one. It doesn’t help that Square Enix’s development teams put out one message to keep fans happy and the executives put out another to keep share holders happy. With Nomura sticking to his guns and assuring fans that the game will remain a Playstation 3 exclusive and Yoichi Wada saying Square is looking into a multi-platform release, you can probably guess who’s going to win the debate.
Potential proof that Xbox 360 development may have already begun lies in a job listing posted on Square Enix’s careers page asking for a Battle Planner for the game. The job asks for experience in developing a 3D action game, level design and battle design as well as the clincher – “development experience on a PS3, or Xbox 360 package title”. It certainly isn’t definitive proof that an Xbox 360 version is planned and it could be simply a mistake by the recruitment team but it’s certainly some food for thought.
Source: Kotaku
There’s been enough debate among fans whether some of the footage in yesterdays Final Fantasy Versus XIII TGS trailer is real-time or pre-rendered, to warrant Nomura weighing in to clarify what’s going on. The debate centres around whether the opening cinematic in the Versus section of the trailer is in-game or pre-rendered footage. On the 3rd Birthday Twitter, Nomura says that this scene with Noctis is indeed pre-rendered but the rest of the trailer is completely in-game. Nomura also says that the desert Noctis is running around would probably be best to travel around via a car unless the player chose not to do so.
The part of his Tweet I’m most interested in though is the last. He confirms that the Behemoth fight at the end of the trailer has been slowed down. Nomura says this is because Noctis is so fast that the viewer wouldn’t be able to see him clearly. It’s a big sigh of relief but it does make me question why they even chose to do this in the first place. I’m sure most of us would have preferred to see him fight at normal speed.
Source: 3rd_birthday Twitter
Although it may have taken longer than expected, the joint Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII trailers have been officially released online. Unlike the previous Square Enix trailers released over the past couple of weeks though, you unfortunately need to have a login to the Japanese Square Enix Members site. Of course that hasn’t stopped people from ripping it. Here’s the trailer for all to see. An HD version will probably be released soon.
Update: The Youtube link has been taken down. We’ve now uploaded it to our own player.
Source: Lightning13
It’s been a long time since we’ve actually seen an officially released trailer for either Final Fantasy Versus XIII or Final Fantasy Agito XIII, but apparently we won’t have to wait much longer. In a surprising turn of events—for Square Enix anyway—it has been announced by Nomura himself that all trailers, both public and private will be released over the coming days.
Nomura tweeted via the 3rd_birthday Twitter account that each title’s trailer will be posted on their respective official sites soon starting with todays reveal of the Dissidia 012 [duodecim] trailer. He says the reason for this staggered release of trailers is because of the time it takes to create each site and asks for everyone to be patient. This announcement does put into question Square’s efforts to remove all traces of the leaked Versus and Agito trailers from the internet. It’s possible that this decision to release them officially was made in light of how impossible it really is to expect no one to attempt to leak them. Let’s look forward to our upcoming (hopefully) HD Fabula Nova Crystallis fix.
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Source: 3rd_birthday Twitter
The latest issue of Famitsu gives us some details of the upcoming Fabula Nova Crystallis Conference being held on January 11th next year. Tetsuya Nomura helps enlighten us on what’s actually going to take place at the event. See the list below for what’s confirmed so far.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII Screenshots will be released.
New titles will be announced – some not even part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation.
New Dissidia 012 [duodecim] characters will be announced.
…and apparently there will be more surprises revealed at the event itself.
There’s no mention of any trailers being shown at the conference as of yet, but it would seem out of place for there not to be any video footage at all. There is more good news though. Square have confirmed that “some” members of the public will be able to attend the event. Let’s hope it isn’t a huge disappointment.
Source: Andriasang
It looks like we won’t have to wait for our Versus and Agito fix for quite as long as we though. Both the Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII trailers have been leaked and posted online. They’ve been recorded on a camera obviously so the quality is pretty bad but at least they didn’t get caught recording them. Here you go:
Final Fantasy XIII Japanese Commercial 1 HD
Final Final Fantasy XIII Trailer (Translated)Final Final Fantasy XIII Japanese TrailerFinal Fantasy XIII Release Date Announcement Video
Noob at intro's... FFXIII - Promised Eternity - Piano Cover Final Fantasy XIII-2 Digital Contents Selection Attack on Titan Guy Humps Hornets' Nest, Dies Hope y'all like Android/iOS junk Time Gate: Minimum Game Cancel Stupid Things You Used to Believe Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn relaunches this summer on PC and PS3 Square Enix Origin Forum
Japan: December 17th 2009
NA: March 9th 2010
Europe: March 9th 2010 Japan: December 15th 2011 NA: January 31st 2012 Europe: February 3rd 2012 Japan: TBA NA: TBA Europe: TBA Japan: October 13th 2011 NA: TBA Europe: TBA
