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IGN Final Fantasy XIII Update
Following up on the latest series of trailers that were first aired at
the Jump Festa event in Tokyo late last year, Famitsu has scored
interviews with the key personnel behind the Fabula Nova Crystallis
series to shed some light into how things are going with the next
generation of Final Fantasy.
The magazine first confirms some of what we gathered from the main Final Fantasy XIII
trailer, an updated version of the E3 trailer with a few new scenes and
a prologue section. In the main FFXIII game, the world is split into
two parts: Cocoon and Pulse. Cocoon is a space colony that houses a few
million people. Pulse is everything outside of it.
For the people of Cocoon, Pulse is a frightening place. Those who come
into contact with it are believed to be elements of a plot to invade
Cocoon and are banished from the protections of the Cocoon realm by the
"holy" government and its army. The original E3 trailer depicted a
group of people who seemed to be confined on a train. These people had
come into contact with Pulse and were being quarantined.
Cocoon is protected by crystals. This may not necessarily be the case
for the rest of the games in the Fabula Nova Crystalis series, but the
crystals in FFXIII are more than just shiny stones with magic
abilities. They have the ability to create real life objects. They make
life easy for people in Cocoon by creating machines and living
creatures.
The relationship between Cocoon and Pulse can be thought of as this,
according to director Motome Toriyama. First, there was Pulse, a
dangerous world where people reside under the fear of monster attack.
Cocoon was made when the crystals considered what would be an
appropriate living space for people forced to reside in the world of
Pulse.
As mentioned in our writeup on the Jump trailer, the female character
who is assumed to be FFXIII's main character is known as Lightning,
although that's not her real name. A battle expert with mastery of gun,
sword, hand-to-hand, and magic based combat, Lightning knows little
about herself. In fact, she's not even sure of her real name, and
Toriyama says that we should look forward to finding out the reason for
this as part of the storyline. Lighting was once a high ranking
official in an organization of some form. Now, according to the
prologue that kicks off the trailer, she's been selected as an enemy to
all of man kind and will bring destruction to the world.
The trailer also served as the debut of a second character, a
blonde-haired guy who speeds in on a motorcycle as Lightning finds
herself surrounded by government troops. While the magazine doesn't
provide any details on this character, it does provide some surprises
about his motorcycle. Famitsu reveals that the bike is a transformed
version of Shiva, the water-based summon spell that makes a brief
appearance in the Jump trailer. In FFXIII, Shiva takes the form of a
sister pair, and both sisters are made up of bike parts, complete with
a wheel behind the head. Toriyama wouldn't spill the details, but
hinted that you might be able to ride the transformed Shiva in battle,
in addition to using it as a means of transportation when outside of
battle.
Once again, most of the details in this latest update have been saved
for the main FFXIII title, with only tiny bits coming our way on Final
Fantasy Versus XIII. Mostly, Famitsu describes what went on in the Jump
trailer, itself an extended version of the E3 trailer, but there are a
few details that we missed during our initial viewing.
At the beginning of the trailer, as the main character speeds down a
highway in the back seat of a car, he's listening to a news broadcast
on the radio. This broadcast describes how two countries have come to a
treaty about peaceful use of crystals.
Crystals have a different role in the Versus world, director Tetsuya
Nomura explained to Famitsu. In Versus, crystals exist only in the main
character's country. A long cold war revolving around these crystals,
has, as suggested by the news broadcast, at last begun to clear.
One point of interest in the trailer regards the main character's eyes
and features, which seem to change based on his moves. During battle,
his eyes are red, and when he darts from place to place, his hair
flashes white. Director Tetsuya Nomura revealed to the magazine that,
while nothing has been confirmed, it's possible that his eyes will
change to other colors as well, including green.
Nomura offered a few hints on the kind of battle system we can expect
from Versus. The trailer shows the main character selecting from a
number of different weapons to defeat the hundreds of enemy soldiers
that stand before him. The various weapons in the game will have
different methods of attack, and some will even be usable as shields.
Weapons will have some sort of customization element. Of course, the
main character won't have his full arsenal available to him at the
outset of the game.
While everything we've seen of Versus so far has been CG concept
footage, Nomura revealed that we will at long last get to see the game
running on actual PS3 hardware some time this year.
But before that, let's hope Square Enix is good enough to make the Jump
trailers available for download so that everyone can have a look at the
latest from FFXIII.
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Posted on 14 Jan 2007 by Cloud
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