Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

Strangelove

Strangelove

AI Researcher
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hitoshura
is anyone taking part in the battle score challenge thing on the japanese member's site? http://special.member.jp.square-enix.com/lrff13/event/detail/?eventId=1 (spoiler for who it is? if you looked at any news whatsoever, or played the first several hours of the game, it's not a massive shock, but still)

there is about 10 days left, and you will get the 'duelist' wear just for taking part/submitting a score (atb +50, atb starting 50%, guard lv.4 ability and hp +1000 auto ability). if you manage to rank in the top 100 you get the limited 'princess' crown' decoration you can't get in the game.

i kind of want the decoration now just because it's limited :sadpanda: but i'm not confident about getting a high score (i haven't changed my wear set up for ages now, it's been stuck on 'liberator - celestial - soldier 1st' since i got those).
 
Farron

Farron

If the sky comes falling down
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Hallelujah
Terra's theme is in the game as well

wonder if there's a guy pumping out a tune of One- Winged- Angel somewheres.
 
Mwynn

Mwynn

Tenderness
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Fangu

Fangu

Great Old One
That's adorable. I love the trust between these two, it was one of my favourite parts of XIII. Hope made me want a younger brother. I would never in a million years ship them but people are free to do so if they want to of course.
 
Super Mario

Super Mario

IT'S A ME!
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Jesse McCree. I feel like a New Man
Hope looks kinda cool in this one. Lightning's pink hair is still the only thing I like about her. :[
 
Strangelove

Strangelove

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hitoshura
i think there will be three lots of paid dlc (like the one with the moogle outfit released recently)? but these seem like they will be special ones. i think ffx yuna will be from a code with the ffx/x-2 hd remaster, but i don't know where that might come from. hd soundtrack? novel? lr ultimania? (which reminds me)
 
The Twilight Mexican

The Twilight Mexican

Ex-SeeD-ingly good
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TresDias
You mean Toshiyuki Itahana? Yeah, he did the in-game designs for Freya, Eiko and Quina, the extra costumes for XIII-2 (I'm not sure about Hope) and the costumes for LR, including Lumina's. About the only good thing I can think of that he's done is Lumina.

EDIT: Looks like Hideo Minaba did Hope and Alyssa's shit in XIII-2. He also did the rest of the main character designs for IX. :monster:

His stuff for XII (overall art design for the game) is much better.
 
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Roger

Roger

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Minato
Masamune said:
Well making Hope a shota again was dumbshit in the first place, but then when has this series ever made a lick of sense?
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Aging up Hope was rather pointless anyway. Everyone relevant disappeared from his timeline, meaning those 14 years haven't caused him to grow any closer to anyone, he's still searching for a way to bring back his mother and Vanille and Fang, so his priorities haven't changed at all either. His position as bigwig Director is the only thing he gained over the past 14 years which is meaningless as Lightning Returns decides to ditch that entire setting.

Having Hope be the only person that aged at all over the past 10,000 years would needlessly stick like sore thumb for anyone that didn't play XIII-2.
 
Farron

Farron

If the sky comes falling down
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Hallelujah
Minato Arisato said:
Aging up Hope was rather pointless anyway.
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I thought that they did it because people kept on trying to deprecate Hope about him being a whiny emo kid, so they aged him up, and yes, people did treat him better.

as soon as they dropped down his age again, the bashing started again.
 
The Twilight Mexican

The Twilight Mexican

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TresDias
So, ngl, with the FFXIII series having already explored the FNC pantheon pretty extensively, my interest is lessened in FFXVersus (more than it already was by the seven-year non-development process) and any potential sequels to Type-0.

Obviously they could go in completely different directions with those universes' versions of the gods, but I still just feel pretty blasé about the whole thing.
 
Strangelove

Strangelove

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hitoshura
The way I'm seeing it, they explore it in their own ways? Like Type-0's l'Cie aren't like XIII's, nor does XIII have anything about Finis or Agito or anything like that (unless LR does in which case don't even dare talk about it).

It feels like it's more different interpretations of the basic mythos than it is different sides on a single one. FFXIII-2's Ultimania Omega had a little comparison page about it but I didn't read most of it because I hadn't played Type-0 :sadpanda:

and now my vita finally managed to charge again i should get back to that :sadpanda:
 
Blade

Blade

That Man
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Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
Someone give me a reason not to spoil myself because that stupid spoiler thread is so friggan active it's making me sad.

Also all you people complaining about the game or talking about shipping Hope and Lightning are making me sad too, SO STOP.

Some non-spoiler gameplay info would be nice to hear.
 
Splintered

Splintered

unsavory tart
Blade said:
Someone give me a reason not to spoil myself because that stupid spoiler thread is so friggan active it's making me sad.

Also all you people complaining about the game or talking about shipping Hope and Lightning are making me sad too, SO STOP.

Some non-spoiler gameplay info would be nice to hear.
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Hm, non spoilery gameplay? tbh from what I've seen and can understand is what we've seen in this thread.

Difficulty is up, there's a limited amount of items and resource. From what I heard, there's some back and forth about it, with the Japanese saying it's too hard but the streamers saying it ain't too bad.

Customization appearance wise is limited to one accessory (like XIII-2) and changing colors. All the direrentish costumes are bought at different stores. As far as gameplay is concerned, all the costumes have different stats, and you switch weapons, shields, and your abilities- I saw flare at the end of the game but it wasn't very good...

Probably the most popular magic based costume I saw was the ballroom gown.

Lightning looks really good in glasses.

The textures look really rough in this game, it's kind of awkward. On the flip side, the game's maps are actually quite big and more than once I popped in the player was lost or something.

After the end of everyday, Hope summons you up to the arc, you get a story cutscene and and an item.

Every character gets their own arc. Sazh's the smallest because they hate me.
 
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