FFXIII: Lightning Returns

the coloring option looks neat, maybe it will be available to other outfits with bad colors :<

Hope they give a PLD AF DLC >.> that would be so badass

Consider how much skin they are showing on most of her outfits thats not likely. They don't seem to be into being classy in terms of most of their outfits.

Bring it on 14 lovers and 13 haters.

Still waiting for the Sephiroth raid. Lightning Farron is cool beans though.

Just started watching the intro they have released, why was she wearing sunglasses at night?

♪So she can, so she can
see the light that's right before her eyes♪

Was surprised they didn't put this on PS4, looks good though.

Shes standing there basically watching lightning, in all honesty it makes at least a little sense, make it a bit less horribly blinding.

This is quite perplexing. I'm still on the fence about this game but the battle system looks incredibly promising.

Now if they can only match this with a non linear world and character depth. Even as a test, if this works, perhaps they can use it as a template for the next couple of titles.

The game reminds me of majora's mask lol

good thing there's no creepy moon this time.

Minor info

omggg what happens to the chocobo

lol her special skill reminds me of lionheart from 8 and omni slash from 7

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13, Super Mario 3D World Debut Poorly in Japan
Pokemon, meanwhile, surpasses 3M sales.
by Mitch Dyer
November 27, 2013

Both Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Super Mario 3D World debuted in Japan to low sales figures this month. Media Create (via NeoGAF) lists Lightning Returns, with its 277,000 sales, as outselling Super Mario 3D World, which only made its way up to 99,500 units sold. Meanwhile, Pokemon X/Y crossed 3 million Japanese sales.

This is indicative of declining sales for Square Enix, whose Final Fantasy XIII-2 sold less than half of Final Fantasy XIII's 1.5 million in their respective opening weeks. By comparison, New Super Mario Bros. U outsold Super Mario 3D World in about the same amount of time, soaring above 200,000 sales in its opening weeks.

Perhaps Lightning Returns will have a stronger opening in North America when it releases on February 11, 2014, and in Europe on February 14.

*blows raspberry for the return of Lightning*

It was to be expected, really..

Some other news stories "claiming" that the ending destroyed both the series and the franchise.

I'll still play it, it's more likely that a negative opinion will come out than a positive one, especially how people treat the games.

Wouldn't say just the ending >.> but each game went from one extreme to the next, but it does fill a lot of plot holes.

FF13 did have a decent storyline but i could not play that train wreck of a game I got to the big open feild and said *** this. i gave up on 13 I am hopeing 15 is decent or the FF series is done

So it's a repeat of the ME3 situation?

I think FFXV will turn things around if this is good or bad either way. Kingdom Hearts is great, and from what I understand the gameplay will be very similar to Kingdom Hearts, the biggest flaw in KH right now is the issue with its story and the handhelds, but with KHI.5/KHII.5 they are mostly fixing that, so they are clearing up the one thing that sucks about the series.

If FFXV can mimic the battle system of KH, it will go great, the only issue at that point is the existence of FFXIII and the effect it had on the name as well as the effect FFXIV had, they tried to change things too, it went bad, they are changing it again but this time to a formula they see works in another set of their games, and that's why I think it will work.

FFXIII wasn't all that bad imo.

FFXIII-2 I haven't finished (kept trying, couldn't keep my interest or something else came up that peaked my interest), so I don't know that ending yet...

Glad to see this crap filler game was rejected by the Japanese. Now if it would just come out here so it can go away forever and we can focus on better final fantasy games.

what, like XI?

XI has kept SE alive, no matter what people think of it.

Maybe.

But isn't XIV supposed to be their new cash cow?

14 is now their leading mmo by far(way more subs and at a higher price), 11 is just still in the profit, but if 11 was to tank it would prolly work out for the best seeing that it would increase 14's subs.

imo 14 has all their best devs, while 11 keeps the ones that aren't good enough yet lol.