New Final Fantasy XIII Information and Screens -Mark ALL Spoilers!-

I haven't played the Final Fantasy series since the day they released Final Fantasy XI. Hopefully I can get back into the series when I buy this game. It looks amazing!

Holy ****! It's finally happened! It's finally happened! You want Final Fantasy XIII gameplay?!? Well, we've got scans of gameplay!!


http://i41.tinypic.com/mt5d82.jpg

Originally Posted by Autumn Thread

The commands are as follows.

Fight
Launch (I guess this is something to do with going aerial with attacks)
Fire
Firaga
Cure

The guy with the mace says:
"Throw down your weapons! I'll treat you courteously."

Nomchan's name has also been revealed to be something along the lines of Wolva Dia Vanilla.

In somewhat related news, the Re: Replay video of Advent Children Complete may be found in the link.

Anyways, this most certainly means the trailer shown at Jump Festa this weekend will be of this gameplay!

Wow, it looks good. So will it be turn based, or atb?

The trailers are now in HD:
Gametrailers.com - Final Fantasy Versus XIII - DKS3713 Trailer HD

Gametrailers.com - Final Fantasy XIII - DKS3713 Trailer HD

It looks like it's going to be ATB perfected. This is gonna be schweet.

Oh, and just found this:
Remember those people on the train from the original Final Fantasy XIII trailer?


That's what Olva is wearing in the latest trailer.

Originally Posted by BlazingDarkness

seighardt on ps3forums makes a good point, that the name is 'olva daia-vanilla'

the name, being georgian descent

olva = aspiration
daia = sister

the combination implying that she's a priestess

(which fits in with her ritual garb in the recent trailer)

That sounds about right to me. So Nomchan is a holy woman officially named:

Olva Daia-Vanilla

Dear god, I can't wait for this game. Advent Children Complete looks awesome too. I hope it gets released in North America in a timely fashion.

I probably won't get this game, unfortunately. The PS3 is too expensive, and the 360 is uninteresting, so I have nothing to play it on. Oh well, missing one FF is fine when there's so many.

Originally Posted by Lord Golbez

I probably won't get this game, unfortunately. The PS3 is too expensive, and the 360 is uninteresting, so I have nothing to play it on. Oh well, missing one FF is fine when there's so many.

So... you'll either have no consoles, or have the Wii alone? Damn, that really sucks.

Originally Posted by Andross

So... you'll either have no consoles, or have the Wii alone? Damn, that really sucks.

Naw, I have a DS as well, and I prefer that to the Wii. Plus, I found a cheap PS2 that works well, so I might get that instead so I can play the rest of the Final Fantasies/ other good games I missed last gen. So I'll be content until next gen pulls around, and hopefully Sony's next console is affordable and backwards compatible with the PS3.

Can't wait for this game!!
At least Versus is PS3 exclusive!

Originally Posted by Lord Golbez

Naw, I have a DS as well, and I prefer that to the Wii. Plus, I found a cheap PS2 that works well, so I might get that instead so I can play the rest of the Final Fantasies/ other good games I missed last gen. So I'll be content until next gen pulls around, and hopefully Sony's next console is affordable and backwards compatible with the PS3.

There are only 12, and the first three aren't even fun to play.

And the full Re: Final Fantasy XIII scans have hit. Tons of new screens and artwork! My favorite, and what I'm calling now for my sig:

This one is pretty color-wise, too.

SO HAWT! HOT I SAY!

sweet!

I really can't wait to get my hands on this game. I just know I'm gonna love it.

Haha Mr. Wonderful, that picture is in my sig...
I don't know way my sig came out so compressed, but I have the little flipping Lighting in the corner!
XD the art is wicked!

Details on the COMPLETELY NEW Jump trailer are up!

New Private Final Fantasy XIII Trailer at Jump Festa
Date: 20 Dec 2008 Author: Kitmitsu Views: 948
News Category: Final Fantasy XIII
Square-Enix's annual attendance to Jump Festa today is just as predictable as every year. They've brought along their lovable Closed Mega Theater and in it they're showing a brand new Final Fantasy XIII trailer in private. We'll be relying on the scattered trailer descriptions as usual to find out what happened.

Apparently this trailer stars a new male character who has a "shota" like nature. We'll be expecting another feminine character as per usual. He might have an unusual way of speaking.
There is supposed to have been new never seen before battle footage with Snow fighting by kicking and punching. They're defending the Pigtails girl. Lightning fights using a mix of melee and shooting attacks.
They summon Shiva during the battle shown. She freezes them using Ice magic and then runs them over in her motorcycle form.
Another new character seems to have been shown in the trailer. It's apparently a young Asian woman.
The combat is seamless in the trailer. Imagine running around an FFXII worldmap but the camera and character locking on when in an encounter like FFX.
Lightning is planning a prison break to free the Pigtails girl. Snow is the one leading the attack. Lightning is apparently in a straight jacket which leads into the original train footage on the prison train back in 2006.
Snow is the one wanting to get back the Pigtails girl but Lightning says she has already been captured by the fal-Cie. She hits Snow and says "You didn't protect her! did you!" to which Snow replies "Therefore I came to help".
The battle taking place in the trailer is really fast paced, more so than any other Final Fantasy game.
Snow and Lightning frees the Pigtails girl who's being taken away by guards. Snow gives her a machine gun and she introduces herself as "Vanilla" (Almost 100% confirmed to be her name now).
Every character in the trailer is voiced.

We'll update you when we get more information.

Lightening in a straight jacket? Sound soooo awesome! I just want the game at this point.

I'm really hoping the battle system is going to be like a mix between FFXII's seamless encounters in the field and FFX-2's general fast-paced awesomeness. Maybe a bit slower so as to allow for more strategy, but I wouldn't mind something at least similar to that.

I really liked how X-2 had a pretty traditional battle system but had the characters moving around instead of just standing in a straight line. I kind of hoped XII would offer the same thing but without transitions, so maybe they're doing that with XIII.

Sweet! I'm always interested in hearing about new characters and such. Can't wait to hear more. Lightning in a straight jacket does sound pretty crazy.

New V-Jump scans with more battle footage!





Translation of the scans:

Originally Posted by RpgN

Enemy's appearance
It's one of the sky city's cacoon sections (it is assumed from the mag or the writer). While encountering enemies you can avoid them.

The start of battle
If you have contact with them, they draw their weapons and get prepared for battle (I can't see if they mean by realtime or entering a new combat field). The battle with PSICOM (Public order soldiers) can finally start.

Attack freely
Within the battle you can input consecutive attack actions freely. You can put all kinds of methods and combinations.

All kinds of attack actions confirmed
If you fire your gun/weapon blindly, the enemies can overwelm you. But what if you engulf the enemy with flame after it? What kind of magic will it turn into? After clicking on attack, commands like fire and cure will be displayed.

That's the gist of it.

Also, better impressions of the brand new trailer shown at Jump Festa:

As for the new characters..

I would not call the big new male character's hairstyle an afro, but his hair does look like somebody put a tube over his head and then his scalp exploded, permanently frying his hair up in fine DBZ fashion. It's not long and ridiculously spiky, though. Just... exploded. His hair is VERY orange, and he either has it shaved into thin zig zag shave patterns on the sides of his head or he has a lot of tiny zig zagging braids there. He appears to be wearing a frayed or fur trimmed blue vest and is pretty clearly black. He is wearing off-white to khaki colored long shorts with simple gold patterns on them. He also has a silver necklace with a rectangular, flat silver pendant, wide sides horizontal. He's present mostly in the prison break scenes, helping Snow and the other new male and female characters, although he is the only character I was able to identify for sure on the train with Lightning before she broke out.

As for the younger new male, the first thing that came to my mind upon seeing him was Gippal, probably because of his blond hair and main colors pink and black outfit. He wears goggle-like headgear on his forehead. He does not look 'shota' to me, but he does look young compared to Lightning, Snow and big black new dude. He is blond. He looks to be older than pigtails girl by a couple years. He does talk with an affect. For people who know some Japanese, he tacks 'sska' onto the end of 'ja nai ka' questions to make 'ja nai sska' and 'ja nai ssu'. I don't know exactly the real life implications of the affect, whether its regional, age or culture, but it does exist in real Japanese speech. He seems to often have complaints about situations and courses of action, but help out regardless.

New female character reminds me of Yuffie a little, but her hair is at least shoulder length and appears to be tied back. She does not appear to be very patient. She has a purplish butterfly tattoo visible on her shoulder from the back. I think it's her right shoulder. Her outfit's colors are yellow, white and purple. She is wearing a very short, ruffled layered yellow skirt. She shows considerable amounts of skin compared to Lightning and Vanille. She's also wearing something like knee high fishnet socks. I believe she is shown using a gun.

As for what's happening in the actual trailer, there seems to be two separate parts being told at the same time.

First, there is Lightning rescuing Oerba Dia Vanille on a train with the three new characters and Snow. This scene takes place in the very green colored area with all the train tracks suspended in the air, visible in this image.

I'm not sure about the trailers' order of shown events, as both covered similar events while including different scenes, but the story follows this way..

Lightning and the new black character are on the prisoners' train, dressed in the same white outfits we have seen Oerba Dia Vanille wear when she is captured. They are sitting with several other prisoners. All of them are restrained by some kind of force from the wrist areas of the clothes they are wearing. They talk quietly and briefly to each other, and suddenly the train hits what appears to be some kind of force field barricade set up on its tracks, and begins to run out of control. Lightning jumps out to attack and crushes a remote control-like device with her foot, releasing all the prisoners from their hand bindings. Lightning waves her hand past her hip and begins to generate what looks like an electrical field around herself but appears to be connected to her gravity based abilities.

The large dragon-like flying beasts we have seen before attack the out of control train, seemingly in an attempt to stop Lightning from hijacking it. She shoots at them from the train with a large bazooka-like gun. Eventually they knock the train off its tracks.

The fighting ends up outside, where all the other new characters plus Snow join in. Snow breaks a speaker that seems to be droning out commands from the Holy Government in his entrance scene. Lightning and company have a lot of help in the form of what appears to be a small rebel force, armed with what appear to be standard, bullet-firing guns of fair power. Some of the train rails have been destroyed by the fighting, and the rebels assisting Lightning and company are entrenched in the rubble.

The people who escaped the train when Lightning broke out want to help them fight, and eventually Snow consents to letting them figh to. Among the escapees is Oerba Dia Vanille, who Snow gives a gun to. She takes it, pretends to aim it at an enemy, and says "Bang!"

The fighting seems to get worse, and a heavily armored enemy airship arrives. It blows away a good portion of the resisting fighters with one cannon blast, and Snow is knocked off the train rail while attempting to rescue another fighter and falls from view.

The scene changes to Lightning on a platform with a character who does not appear to be a main playable character by lack of remarkable clothing (His name is possibly Sazzu by the menus). The other character is a male in very plain clothing, although he appears to follow her around for some time as she moves and fights, possibly a guide character.

Lots of fight scenes are strung together, seemingly more for the purpose of showing off the battle menues than carrying the story forward, as eventually it breaks off to the second main storyline focus area: Lightning, Snow and Vanille in the frozen-looking lake area.

There are scenes of them fighting both monsters and soldiers there, and at one point Snow summons Shiva and uses her in battle to attack. Among his menus when using Shiva are attacks called "Diamond Dust" and "Engine". The attack he performs causes damage in many separate increments. In a scene we've seen in magazine scans, Vanille mentions she has seen "that" before, she thinks, although what "it" is is unclear.

Depending on which trailer you're watching, a dialogue about someone named Sera plays either over a scene near the battle at the train tracks area or in lip synch between Lightning and Snow in the frozen lake area, where Snow mentions Sera and Lightning becomes angry at him for not saving Sera, claiming it was his fault that whatever happened to her happened. Snow seems to believe that he can still save her, but Lightning thinks nothing can be done about it anymore. She hits him twice, and both appear to be near tears. He stops her with something he says about what he thinks he can do. (I believe she asks "What is it you think you can do, huh?" in regards to how to save Sera and he replies "Anything!")The blue golem-like creatures are present during some of the voice over conversation. It seems they are somehow connected to what happened to Sera. (Sorry, I'm fairly unsure about the goings on outside the train fighting scenes).

Throughout the train section of the trailers, many, many charactes are shown, most of whom appear to be rebel fighters and escapees from the train, but I've only described in detail the ones who have been seen in gameplay combat or who have unique clothing.

At some point in time (it's shown at the beginning of a trailer, but I can't pin it down chronologically), Vanille is shown standing outside in her white hooded outfit in the green-lit train area, and she mentions the "beginning of the end of the world."

The large green creature/statue like object in the first linked image also features quite prominently in the trailer, but I'm not sure what it is or what it means. In the version where talk of Sera is dubbed over the train scenes, it appears quite often while the conversation plays.

Wow. That's quite possibly the most story details we've gotten so far. I can't wait for this game.

An image of one of the new characters:

This has been a week of megatons.

Wow, it keeps getting better and better. I really want to see some pics of these new characters. Nice find once again Mr. Wonderful.

I had kind of lost interest in FFXIII but after this flood of information I'm super hyped. Anyone else getting a Chrono Trigger vibe from the battle system? Seems like FFX+FFXII+CT to me : B.

Lightning's in game model is amazing o :

Also, for those of you that care, FFCC:CB is going to get a nu trailer on the 29th of January.

I never really got into FF besides 7 and another one on Playstation. I got them a few years ago to play on my PS2 and my friend brought over FF 12 and I just can't seem to get into the series. I'm not sure why.

I might try this one though, it sure looks much better then 12 did in game! But I really shouldn't be so shocked =D