The fat chocobo (me) has returned from Tokyo Game Show 2008, and has put together a giant trailer description set compiled from her notes and Kanae’s. She waddled through the megatheater twice, the second time with a notepad and pen to try to catch some text off the trailers. Hints for people who want to get in next year: arrive at 6:30 in the morning.

These are more full and detailed descriptions of the trailers shown at TGS 2008 in the Closed Mega Theater. Hopefully this plus Autumn Thread’s description will give people a good idea of how the trailers went.

New scenes and new information will be bolded.

Interesting new stuff:

A tiny bit more on the new scenes in 13, and a fuller account of the scenes contained in the trailer.

Italian captions on black backgrounds were shown interspersed through the Versus trailer. Three of five have been translated.

Most of Agito’s narration has been translated, which contains the backstory for the game. This was entirely taken from Kanae’s transcript.

Things to make note of:
These descriptions are a compilation of my own notes and the notes of Kanae of http://ffkh.onlinfo.net/ The Japanese conversations in 13 and Versus, and the narration in Agito have been translated to English from her transcripts.

There are some discrepancies as to the order of some of the older scenes in the new trailer between her and my accounts.

The names in the radio broadcast in the Versus trailer are the interpretations of what Japanese viewers heard. There were no subtitles to read the spellings and pronunciations off.

The articles in the Italian phrases in Versus may not be completely correct. I don’t know Italian well enough to say whether or not I copied them down correctly. The root nouns I am fairly sure about.

I skipped over detail in some of the Versus and FFXIII scenes. If you’re a newcomer, you may benefit from reading the Jump Festa trailer description Kanae wrote here and watching the E3 trailer for 13 also available on the site.

On to the descriptions, click here.

User >Autumn Thread who resides on the NeoGAF forum, who attended this years TGS, has given users descriptive details (along with dialogue) on each trailer shown within Square Enix’s Closed Mega Theater.
(You can also find summaries for other trailers viewed within the Closed Mega Theater in the source at the end of this post.)

Here are the summaries given by Autumn Thread.

FINAL FANTASY XIII

Started off with the familiar TGS07 footage of the dragon-like flying creature swooping down over a stream, camera moves up to Sera (formerly Nom-chan). Camera pans and shows the world in the distance.

Changes to the airship we’ve seen previously. This thing is huge and small airships that resemble fish (green beams the top and bottom that are shaped like the spine in fins). The mother airship sends out green circle markers in which the airships fly through, into a docking station and slowly move to the end of the dock which takes them below.

Camera changes to another airship, this is all new footage and a new location. out of the airship a man? with a pony tail walks out, seems to be some kind of general or a leader of some organisation. We see some soldiers that we’ve seen in the in-game screen shots released recently, they look a bit like the Helghast from Killzone but a little more organised and scary. They’re carrying a casket towards the airship with the general, looks like a black cocoon but at the end is Sera. She has a very royal-esque outfit (I feel that she may be related to royalty or something, I’ll elaborate below.) She’s walking with them and looks kind of melancholy. At the foot of the unit carrying the casket is the woman with the large breasts, glasses and knee-length hair.

Changes scene to a new location we seen in pictures long ago. There’s a large creature or statue in the midst of a green-ish underground location. The special soldiers are surrounding the creature and the city in the background is burning, smoke is coming out of the buildings. The soldiers fire pipes or some other thing into the creature and soon after there’s a thousand odd ‘pipes’ impaled in this thing.

Change scene: We see a beach like location, airships and carriers fly overhead, the camera is in a birds eye position and one of the airships drops 2 objects. As they fall they explode into smaller creatures(?). Camera moves to ground level and there are the clone wars lookalike soldiers running out of the small army barracks like place they have there. 2 futuristic ground vehicles arrive and the camera once again shifts to old footage.

Shortly we hear Lightnings voice. It’s not a cutscene but quite a few scenes flashing in out, we see Lightning walking through the ruins with Sera and then again at the frozen location. They’re being assaulted by the special soldiers. We see some fancy combat and sword transformation from Lightning and she flips back to defend. We see Mr.33CM talk with lipsync here and the trailer ends.

Dialogue (not 100%)

Lightning: ‘Carry out the mission’ is what you said. You want to abandon it?
What about ‘your’ mission?
Mr. 33cm: That’s not it! I’ll protect Sera and carry out the mission. That’s a promise.
Lightning: Show me you can ‘protect’.

FINAL FANTASY versus XIII

yikes I’m getting tired!

Trailer opens with the car scene in the tunnel and radio talking about the end of a cold war. Seems a little bit extended, shows some road signs with names “En Victis” and “Nhilifium” or something like that.

Car exits a tunnel and we see airships looming over in the distance.

Shakespeare message appears and we cut to new in-game footage.

Camera shows a staircase, we see the princes feet climbing the staircase. Detailed shoes. I want some. Camera moves up and shows the prince in his glory, he looks a bit antisocial. He notices Stella looking at the painting of the Goddess and she notices he’s around.

She asks him if he seen something earlier, she also seen it she states. She questions him if that is the ‘light’. She approaches him quite quickly and he seems a little timid, he turns his back and moves to walk away muttering “It’s better not to talk about that”, she catches up and does the cute Japanese ‘one foot hands behind back spin’ motion and questions him if ‘that’ (dialogue below) is not indeed the words of the (scholars?) at a place called Tenebuira. He tells Stella it’s probably the same ‘here’, also.

By the way, the animation and detail to expression is very impressive. I find that FFvXIII seems to have a little graphical edge over XIII right now. It’s truly amazing, I want to see it once more.

After a little more chatter they Noct slumps down onto a chair and we see more of the room while they talk about this ‘power’ from ‘light’. There’s a aquarium in the centre of the room.

Noct excuses himself that he must be leaving soon and the two depart after Stella introduces herself and invites him to her ‘city/country’ ‘Tenebuira’. Noct tells her he’ll consider it and she leaves rather quickly.

Noct looks up and a voice asks him “Who… are you?”
He mutters back “That’s my line” and shrugs it off, walking away.

The rest of the footage was old FMV stuff from TGS07 and Jump Festa.

Dialogue (not 100% either)

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