OneWingedDemon
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Armor that looks like it might actually *GASP* offer some protection? 
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
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Okay, rephrase that to "too westernized to be XIII." VII and VIII didn't have the pink hair. XIII was much more neo; it had the spacey clothes, the green hair, etc. Now if that's not your cuppa tea, I can understand why you'd want Lightning to look like something out of any West produced game. But look at her pink hair with that very brown outfit. Doesn't it look kinda... clashy?Like most of FFVII and FFVIII?
Yes.@concept, it looks a bit less silly than the original design imho, but also more conservative / less daring. Also, lacks flaps for showing off the physics engine in-game,
What I'm trying to say is, I love even the cookyness of those games because it takes me somewhere else. If I want to watch brown and dirty, I watch Game of Thrones. Which I also love, but it's a totally different universe. Context is extremely important.
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- Minato
Lightning's new outfit is in a whole new style compared to the original game as it is. They could've just as easily gone in a different direction when designing the Lightning Returns era.
Yeah but I still wouldn't want it to be totally middle age. You can tone down the colors without going totally brown.
Mwynn
Tenderness
First look of the Dead Dunes. http://www.finalfantasy.net/lrff13/dead-dunes-lightning-returns/
Splintered
unsavory tart
Pretty sure that outfit is the same outfit we've seen before, although I forget what it's called. The one with the Odin tramp stamp.
That would be awesome. I enjoyed XIII-2 for what it was but they pumped out that game so fast that I felt they could have expanded it more. XIII-2 was a gold mine of unused concept art locations, and I think exploring wtf the arks were would have been awesome. Also not using Eden in Oerba and underwater Lake Bresha is almost criminal because those concepts looked awesome, but oh well.
Splintered
unsavory tart
Since my first pet theory was shot down, my new one is like this.
Only except Versus XIII, it's going to be connected to Type-0, because XIII-2's original concept was going to have it connected to that game before they scratched that out.
But if Lightning is going to guide souls to a "new world" then the rebooted world could easily be Type-0 or Versus. I have a feeling that the "happy ending" is Lightning not stopping the end of the world, but securing everyone's soul to be reborn or something. It would be happy but bittersweet.
And a part of me is not sure how I feel about that. I kind of want everyone to go back to their original time, be with their families, and be happy like at the end of XIII. It makes the original game feel sort of... hollow? It's sad to think that Nora spent the rest of their lives waiting for Serah and Snow to come back because they were like family, but they never did. And they probably wondered about their fates for the rest of their lives.
Blade
That Man
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- Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
Caius says the Chaos flowing out from Etro's gate has the power to "destroy the past", so that 'past' with Team Nora might not even exist anymore...
My theory is all the fragmented bits of the timeline got pancaked into a rift-like simultaneous existence (read: Time Compression ala FFVIII), and anything that survived those events became immortal and got thrust into whatever current era (if it can even be called as such) Nova Chrysalia became.
My theory is all the fragmented bits of the timeline got pancaked into a rift-like simultaneous existence (read: Time Compression ala FFVIII), and anything that survived those events became immortal and got thrust into whatever current era (if it can even be called as such) Nova Chrysalia became.
Splintered
unsavory tart
I think my only issue with that would mean though that potentially everybody no matter what the time, including pre-Cocoon days, would be stuck there was well, and that's a lot of people, plus how would you determine the age they get sent. I suppose there could be some sort of filtering in that somewhere though. Because I honestly like that idea rather than have it at a select time.
Time in general is all kinds of wonky in XIII's franchise. Even in LR where time doesn't exist yet clocks counting down still work, and they already abolished the thirteenth hour because of weird issues with the world ending. I'm not sure if I want to elaborate more to make it have more sense, or that it's so completely silly that instead of trying to define it better, just let them go wild with the concept without worrying to much later on.
Time in general is all kinds of wonky in XIII's franchise. Even in LR where time doesn't exist yet clocks counting down still work, and they already abolished the thirteenth hour because of weird issues with the world ending. I'm not sure if I want to elaborate more to make it have more sense, or that it's so completely silly that instead of trying to define it better, just let them go wild with the concept without worrying to much later on.
Kuja9001
Ooooh Salty!
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Mwynn
Tenderness
Two more new screens:
Official description of the Dead Dunes:
It's even more possible that that tower in the back of that screen Kuja pointed is the Thirteenth Ark, as it was mentioned in a fragment that the ark was protecting some kind of heavenly vault.
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Alex Strife
Ex-SOLDIER
"Is that the stolen treasure?" is what she said in that French line.
Drax
Pro Adventurer
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- Benoist; Captain Highwind
Also, I knew Lightning's real name was something French, but speaking it?
French is rusty, but I think she's saying, "Here it is, the desired treasure?"
EDIT: Ninja'd by Alex. (10 hours ago)
Splintered
unsavory tart
Other screens/english/concept art explained
Splintered
unsavory tart
Is that the screenshot someone was talking about a "leader?" I heard it might be Snow, but I secretly wanted a half-Cieth'd Snow pop up. Oh well.
They could be talking about Hope, but if she meets them in the Dusty Dunes, it's likely that area doesn't up till later and she meets Hope before that.
Kermitu Kleric Katie
KULT OF KERMITU
I hope Snow returns is this game. Sazh better return as well. Those two were my favorite characters in FFXIII.