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GI FFXIII demo impressions; from topic on PS3 board
Topic Started: Apr 7 2009, 01:44 PM (111 Views)
Killer Kitty
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"Final Fantasy XIII is, put simply, the best-looking game on PlayStation 3 yet."


That's what they all say.


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The game has been in development for 5 years.


If they've got the budget then why not?


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Characters are fully motioned captured.


Bling bling.


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Depth-of-field camera effects shift focus on the fly.


Sounds cool enough.


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Square Enix developed a bespoke PS3 engine power both FFXIII and VsXIII (Crystal Tools).


Cool.


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Themes of the game: fate and destiny (like in Slumdog Millionaire)


And like every damn other JRPG out there.


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Producer says it won't be categorized between western and JRPGs.


AKA Don't worry peeps, we didn't make another FFXII.


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Story plays out similarly to Dragon Quest IV.


???


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Active Battle System received a major overhaul.


Yay!


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The battle designer of FFX = battle designer of FFXIII.


Meh.


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No random battles.


Yay!


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Lightning bears similarities to FFVII's Cloud.


???


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Nobuo Uematsu is making the main theme for the game.


Oh joy.
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Renegade
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A much more polished version of FF12 would have been nice.

Regardless, it's weird how a game goes from amazing looking to just meh in the course of a few years.
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Darkstalker
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So...they didn't have anything useful to say besides that ATB tidbit. >_>
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