Final Fantasy XIII's 'blond-haired bandana guy' named
The magazine (via IGN) also delved a bit into Versus XIII but lacked any gameplay details. Instead, we're given hints about each of the two main characters' personalities, Noctis Lucis Caelum and Stella Nox Fleuret (latin words literally translated as "Night Light Sky" and "Star Darkness Sword," respectively). These two have the ability to "see light," which we guess is either some incomplete translation, a metaphor for something spiritual or a hint that Square Enix is taking a cue from the story Blindness.
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linkman26 @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:34PM
Slow news day, huh?
idiot @ Oct 22nd 2008 11:13PM
funny...I too, can see light
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:46AM
Snow news day.
&rew @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:37PM
From now on that guy is named Snow White. Get it because he is in a JRPG therefore he is a girl... I am not sexist, or nationalist.
Nick the Hero of Canton @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:39PM
I'll stick with calling him Phil.
Titanium_Orchid @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:58PM
I prefer Manly McSteakeater
Hyams @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:40PM
Lots of Final Fantasy characters are named after the weather/elements:
Squall (wind)
Tidus (water)
Terra (earth)
Cloud (... clouds)
So it's not really surprising that there's one called Snow.
linkman26 @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:46PM
Sora=Sun
Ranko @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:54PM
Sora means "sky."
Markez @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:43PM
Didn't he have a hit with that song "informer" ages ago?
Cheesecake Jones @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:09PM
I apologize for this but, here it is:
"Oh, Bahamut
You no say daddy me Snow me you go blam,
9,999 damage now!"
j.howlett @ Oct 22nd 2008 10:01PM
imposter
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Oct 22nd 2008 11:30PM
I like that song. They should have a snow roll.
Mischa @ Oct 23rd 2008 3:14AM
DAMNIT you beat me!
This image needs to be shopped with the line "a licky boom boom down."
Shagittarius @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:56PM
ring ring ring ring ring bandana man.
Titanium_Orchid @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:04PM
damn you for getting the banana phone song stuck in my head
Inofa @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:57PM
I'm betting anything that the Red Head is called Rain.
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:48AM
RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!
[throws fists in the air]
Courtney @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:13PM
Can we have a moratorium on FFXIII news until its release is somewhere near the horizon line?
WorMzy @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:28PM
I'd prefer it if he was called Yuki, rather than Snow. =|
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:50AM
Except his name isn't Yuki (Japanese for "snow" for those who don't know), it's Snow. Even in the Japanese version.
スノウ・ヴィリアース (Sunou Viriaasu). Not Yuki. Snow.
WorMzy @ Oct 23rd 2008 7:19AM
Oh.
...I'd still prefer it if he was called Yuki. :3
ZaxCG2 @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:28PM
I'll snow YOUR villiers. >:|
Ryuukuro @ Oct 22nd 2008 7:46PM
He already has his own theme song: "Informer! You ke-blobbity-blobbity-blobbity-lay! I lick your boom boom now!"
No, I don't know what the actual words to that song are. I don't want to know. That would RUIN it.
Honestly, I like the first name. Like Cloud, it's a gentle name for a man who clearly isn't gentle. But 'Villiers'? That sounds weird. But he has a name! Hooray!
JRM @ Oct 22nd 2008 10:22PM
from the looks of that picture, I would have called him "raiden".
Jack Tretton @ Oct 22nd 2008 10:25PM
Will someone at Squeenix please mandate the removal of the Stupid Name Generator from its developers' browser bookmarks?
Garrett @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:15AM
he looks like a surfer turned child molester.
WRE @ Oct 23rd 2008 1:57AM
You can be both a surfer AND a child molester. I'm just saying...
Garrett @ Oct 23rd 2008 4:34AM
why thank you, I appreciate your approval.
I'm not much for surfing though...
Cal @ Oct 23rd 2008 2:45AM
I don't like the FFXIII cast so far ='(
Squee @ Oct 23rd 2008 11:38AM
Wow what a ridiculous name why not Vanilla Ice or chocolate Rain...
AtomicPlayboy @ Oct 23rd 2008 12:26PM
Man, I would really like to have a Final Fantasy game - or any JRPG for that matter - in which the characters didn't look like they spent all their downtime in a cheesy accessories shop in a strip mall. I'll take the Western stereotypical hero, with his 5 o'clock shadow and square jaw, over the ubermetrosexual archetype of Japanese gaming any day. Why? Because people who spend a large portion of their lives in combat don't also tend to spend a large portion of their lives matching their bandanas to their vests and their jewelry. At least this clown doesn't have spiky hair (or maybe he does under that cap).
Biff_McFresh @ Oct 23rd 2008 3:30PM
Word has it, his middle name is Balling.