Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

[Blade]

Is there anything in the way of Eidolon battles/summons at all?

Is Odin available?

Also are there any "specialty equipment" with special abilities? (For example Caius' Sword?)

 

[Splintered]

No summons in any sort of gameplay or anything. There's a throwback to Odin but it's something for the story and not battles- it doesn't effect too much but still kinda spoilery.

 

[Mwynn]

Well there's something for the battles. You can acquire his dual blade weapon.

 

[Strangelove]

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.

you don't get healed after battle any more, and you're limited to 6 healing items (at the start, judging by the stats screen you must get expansions later) and gp abilities.

since you're on your own, there's that too. there's no one to heal you. i'm playing on easy first since that's what square recommended, but the only battles that have caused me much trouble is are bosses or bigger enemies.

but battling along isn't going to really help you since you don't level up from battles. any kind of improvements comes from completing quests to get stat boosts. sometimes quests will involve having to battle to collect items (the chocolina/prayer canvas quests), but spending your time just fighting is only going to waste your time and lead to a game over.

Customization appearance wise is limited to one accessory (like XIII-2) and changing colors. All the direrentish costumes are bought at different stores.

you can only change colours on wear, either for individual parts or all over. you have the choice of a preset palette or a custom one.

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.

i think some of the textures look really nice taken on their own (look at this sand i spent 5 minutes in awe of this sand), but together they can look odd and out of place. luxerion is the only location i've explored thoroughly, but sometimes the textures there can look really disjointed

then there is the npcs, with their odd looking accessories like hats precariously balancing on their heads (that could be a whole category of npcs right there). there's some purpose behind that, since you seem to get those accessories for completing their quests but it still looks strange sometimes (and i know you've just taken a bunch of stuff from ffxiii-2). plus the npc cutscenes which have a kind of stilted and awkwardness about them, which ffxiii-2 had too.

it's a 'ffx-2' type game. it doesn't look godawful but they haven't pushed the boat out or anything graphically (maybe all those jibes about polishing rocks hurt their feelings). but on the flipside, they filled it with lots of things to do.

and i can attest to getting lost

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

I am stuck in Snow town trying to find something for the blond/sandy haired man with the chicken dinner I think he wants something to go with his dinner or something but I haven't been able to find anything

 

[Strangelove]

oh god i forgot while i was making screenshots to get one of the banquet of the lord/太守の宴 restaurant sign

the fuck, snow

the fuck you doing

 

[Storm XIII]

so it's canon now, lol.

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

That's the secret scene you get from FF4/5/6/7

Spoiler

reviving Tellah, Galuf, Leo, Shadow, Brams and Aerith

right?

 

[Arianna]

so it's canon now, lol.

It's canon, she's with everybody.

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

This world is very rich, vibrant and lively. I find myself just staring at the NPCs every so often, it's amusing, one guy was banging on a vending machine (remind anyone of anything? ), people giving piggybacks/cally cods, the structure trying to keep it's balance/wobbling precariously, the drunks, the hawkers, people randomly lying down for a nap or sunbathing or whatever the heck they are doing everywhere, the bards, the one man bands, small troupes, the pianoists, singer, the guards, the engineers, etc. That's just the cities, and the country brings it's own brand too, people worried about/frustrated over/herding their sheep, planting and harvesting crops, logging, looking after their chocobos, the chocobo rider patrol fighting monsters trying to keep areas safe, the chocobos attacking the monsters with their beaks, etc, the little sheeps scattered all over the place, those little bleating balls of fluff, amusing fluffballs everywhere. Even the monsters are fun/hilarious/etc too as well, falling off ledges/etc trying to get to you or the monkey types which would not relent in trying to catch me, chasing me for ages, right the way across all the plains. I love it.

Oh yeah CE! (NA) -

http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/sq...ListPage/ThemeID.29853700/categoryID.67700000

 

[Groodon]

Do they focus anything at all on Serah's and Snow's relationship?

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

Some yeah. Don't worry about that Light/Snow pic, I'm not sure it's real Definitely didn't happen in my game anyway.

oh god i forgot while i was making screenshots to get one of the banquet of the lord/太守の宴 restaurant sign

the fuck, snow

the fuck you doing

This

I ... like ... maybe his arms are stretched in supplication or something ... or maybe arms wide ready to embrace adoring crowds as patron ... or maybe he just wanted to be an advertising poster boy, or maybe the restaurant owner just want a shiny Snow posters ... IDK ... it is kind of neat anyway though

 

[Storm XIII]

Some yeah. Don't worry about that Light/Snow pic, I'm not sure it's real Definitely didn't happen in my game anyway.

Its probably true, I found the pic here: http://special.member.jp.square-enix.com/lrff13/snapboard

I think the player made Lightning stumble across Snow giving the impression that they were dancing.

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

Yeah, I thought it might be a snapshot but then

Spoiler

I wonder how they got Snow out of his palace and into the theatre/stage area Since at the start of the game he hightails it deep into the palace to lock himself up, and then later after Lightning saves him he still stays hidden within the palace anyway, waiting in the place you found him Plus the stage area etc is destroyed during the play/break in to Snow's palace, unless it gets fixxed later It hasn't been everytime I've been in Yusnaan so far though. I am on start of Day 9 but I'll check on my daily visit to Yusnaan today

 

[Splintered]

ToriyamaxLightning.

Its canon.

Do they focus anything at all on Serah's and Snow's relationship?

Serah's dead so it's kind of hard. But Snow's all emo for it.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Most of the cast is where they were near the start of FFXIII, really. Just add 500 years between Serah crystalizing and anything else happening.

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

^^ Vanille

Spoiler

looks so sad too. I went back to the church to talk to her and she had her sad eyes face on

Edit: Haha wow, the Snow thing is real Went back to Yusnaan, and that one section of the stage was there.

Spoiler

Snow safe and sound, out of the prison of his palace and wandering around in the afternoon sunshine My Lightning is in Aerith costume though Snow idly chats to you and even does his fist bump thing. Apparently you can see Noel wandering around Luxerion during the day too

 

[Blade]

Seriously people, stop firing your ship canons!

Talk about weapons/equipment/spells something besides delusional love affairs you WISH would happen!

I'd like to know more about the stat mechanics of the game. Like, I know you can cast spells, but can you do Saboteur stuff or spell+sab at the same time? Or Sentinel stuff?

 

[Selphie Tilmitt]

What are you talking about? Fang/Vanille did happen Not to mention Snow/Serah which people were answering a question about and something in game I was trying to get to the bottom of/figure out where people were getting screenshots from which had less to do with any pairing for me personally and more to do with interesting gameplay, world and NPC touches. Regardless IoW ... No

You have three schema slots, each slot has a little symbol like a sword, a lightning bolt, and something else, I figured the symbols mean attacks, spells, etc but I'm not 100% on that, you equip your costumes into these slots, you can customize yours outfits FFXIII style so you have an Attacker (Commando)/Blaster (Ravager)/Jammer (SAB) or Defender (Sentinel) or yeah you can have spells/debuffs for a RAV/SAB combo outfit, etc.

 

[Arianna]

What are you talking about? Fang/Vanille did happen ...

I still say like sisters, not lovers.

 

[Storm XIII]

so, how is the game overall? I watched a lot of videos, listened to the OST, and read translations of the cutscenes, but I wanted some impressions from whoever is playing the game.

 

[Fangu]

Seriously people, stop firing your ship canons!

Yeah story, plot and characters, who cares about that in a fucking game

 

[Strangelove]

i don't know if this copy of the soundtrack i'm looking at is the one with the dlc code and now i'm sad

and i only got 2888th place on the battle competition and didn't get the limited edition decoration

 

[Strangelove]

next dlc set: ff legends collection

a bit disappointing, since two of those are just bonus dlc (soldier and aerith) repackaged. i suppose it's nice if you missed the soldier one and don't want to buy a book for the aerith one.

(i haven't got the book with the aerith dlc and now i don't know if this is a better deal than getting the book )

 

[Blade]

All this game needs as far as I'm concerned is Caius' sword or Sephiroth's, I don't care which. So long as it's big and can do crazy combos.