Final Fantasy Forum

Yes, that Final Fantasy XIII countdown finally came to read 0, and now a new trailer for the game is up-- and Squenix is even offering it with English subtitles (just select “United Kingdom”).

It's almost entirely new footage and includes some video of battles as well as the usual CG cutscenes; even the battles look fantastic. You'll also get a little bit more sense of the story and two of the main characters, Lightning and Snow (the female lead and the blond dude).

I'm embedding a YouTube copy here, but if it doesn't have the English subs, and it could vanish...so you might prefer to just hit up the official site's.

I really hated the system in FFXII-- not the real-time-ness ore the menu-driven-ness, but the AI programming part. It felt like the goal of the game was to completely remove any sort of user interactivity in battle...the characters weren't very customizable-- they were set to have stats that were geared towards specific roles and it was VERY VERY difficult to break them out of those roles --and the system was such that you could level up by just taping the analog stick forward and letting the system go overnight, if you could program your characters well -_-

Honestly, FFXII is probably my least favorite Final Fantasy...it feels like they wanted to make a movie more than a game. We'll see what XIII is like...someday.

Trailer looks sweet.

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