Thanks, man :) Yeah, I’ve been playing XIII-2 a little more lately and to be honest the game has gotten better as I’ve made progress in the story. It makes much more sense now that it did in the beginning and I love the fact that I am offered more freedom than in FFXIII even though XIII’s story is still more compelling but Caius is definitely a good villain imo!

I hope Square will show a new trailer ASAP so I could see how the gameplay looks like ^_^

And it makes sense that ppl don’t age. Considering how badly we effed up Time in XIII-2…

Oh Serah…..*sob* I really hope they do something about XIII-2’s ending,,,,

>.< She is cool and all but…..yeah…

I think they’re adopting the style of trying again and again with better stats like Dead Rising did.

I look at it as a spin-off, and as I’ve said in other threads, I applaud a spin-off that dares to try new things. Whether it’ll be good or not is up to debate. Take FFX-2 for example. I’ll be the first to say that I actually liked it. 
The dress system was an interesting way to implement the job system and switch seamlessly in battle. The story had its problems and we only had 3 characters to play with (one of them being totally new and never really explained….to this day, I STILL don’t know who Paine is…)

FFXIII-2 was an interesting test with time and a pokemon-esque monster catching thing. And now LR is total Action RPG.

P.S. Good to see ya again, Locksus :D

If you read the extended interview, they are talking about the games visuals.

LMBO! *That’s* one of the game’s important ‘new details’?

“Because the motion for both Lightning and the monsters has increased, the variation of battles will be plentiful.”

Glad you started commenting around here. We certainly were lacking in the “hate every game that is coming out” department in the comments section of every article.

You sir are the epitome of value add. You definitely fill a niche.

Yo Locksus…been awhile.

I think if you look at LR: FF13 like its supposed to be a normal FF game you will be disappointed.

Look at it like a mashup of Brave Fencer, Majora’s Mask, and Kingdom Hearts and I think you’ll have yourself a blast with another fun game from the fine folks at Square!

I agree with your sentiments on the VS13 comments.

That said, Lightning is my favourite characters from the XIII and XIII-2 (still haven’t finished it yet. To be honest, it’s kind of a dull game and less interesting than XIII but I’m still going to finish it so I get to know what happens to Lightning, Serah and Noel).

I’m kind of disappointed that Lightning will be the only playable character this time around.
“Lightning can hide behind obstacles” that line reminded me heavily of The Last Story so maybe the battle system could be like in that game, who knows?

I haven’t been commenting much lately but it seems like every Final Fantasy/SE related article’s comment section is about FF versus XIII. While I understand the frustration of waiting for this potentially awesome game, whining and petitions aren’t going to change the fact that SE WILL show the game when they feel the game is good enough to be shown to the public.

To my understanding the game is going through some heavy changes, mainly adding more CGI cutscenes and utilising the Luminous engine.

Personally, I can’t wait for it but meanwhile I’m going to put my mind away from that game and play dozens of other awesome games.

I wanted to say something else too but I got a short blackout of memory, though I feel it wasn’t anything that important.

BUT “The world could end before the 13 days are up, resulting in a “Game Over,” depending on your actions.” OMG IT’S FIRST a BAD IDEA :S

 Yeah, the soundtracks for XIII and XIII-2 are among the things I loved most about those games. I know they’ve had mixed reactions, but I applaud SE for trying something new with the music. Particularly with how they featured more vocal songs.

Another thing, though…
You guys must have noticed how much they’ve been promoting Lightning since Final Fantasy XIII (like making her essentially the main character of Dissidia 012). It was fine at first for me, since by the time they announced XIII-2 I realized that they probably just want to maintain interest in her “saga”. But this stuff with Toriyama is just getting creepier and creepier. Lightning is cool, but he’s BABYING the girl. He keeps stressing how elegant and beautiful she is, and I can’t help but wonder what this guy does… in his spare time? D=