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Giant Final Fantasy XIII characters watch over LA residents

by Xav de Matos on May 23rd 2009 5:30PM

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Japanese role-playing game character watching you shower? Los Angeles residents have been introduced to the cast of the upcoming Square Enix powerhouse, Final Fantasy XIII, via building-sized promotional posters. The giant ads for the upcoming JRPG can be spotted on the corner of S. Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard in Downtown Los Angeles.

The 124ft image showcases the game's three main characters, (above-left, from left to right) Vanille, Snow and Lightning, as well as a heading that promises the game will launch in 2010 (with logos for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360). Giant video game based promotional posters in LA, huh? You'd think some kind of huge gaming event was happening in the area soon, or something.

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Tags: advertisement, final-fantasy-xiii, la, los-angeles, Microsoft, poster, promotional, square-enix, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (84)

I've never seen her talk, move, or at all except on this poster, but I can tell, right now, that Vanille is going to piss me off.

I just can't look at her the same since Sprinkles used her as another one of his accounts.

By the looks of her she'll probably get caught on some shrubbery and get left behind in the first act.

If you've seen the demo, she's the one who takes the gun and goes "Bang!". She's like Rikku x Rikku. Oh god...

On the other hand, watch her get the strongest limit break in the game.

We all know Cloud err uh, Lighting is the better woman! I mean check out outfit! ouch! =)

hahaha i thought the same thing back when we saw the first images of Penelo. and it was true. whatever, just don't use her. my whole party in XII is nearly maxed, but Pene-blow is still down around level 12 or so.

She probably will be an annoying character, but that doesn't matter to me. What I care about most is when we start to see hot cosplayer girls dress up as her for comic conventions.

she looks like the girl from mythbusters, she is a kind of annoying; connection?

LMAO Goodbye Chinatown Wars

They should leave the GTA up there. Might catch more people's eyes.

Grand Theft Auto: Effeminate Wars

THATS AWSUM!!!!

Lmao so the game will be released in 2010 while it`ll be released in 2009 in Japan? Does that stupid director still claims the PS3 version of the game won`t be affected by the 360 one by anyway?!

Um...how does the game not coming out until 2010 in America seem to prove to you that the 360 is delaying the release? I've seen many people making this claim, and I don't really seem to see what they're trying to get at.

Of course. We always get the JRPGs about 6-12 months after Japan.

Considering the other Final Fantasy games have taken more than a year to be released in the US after the Japanese versions, how is this the fault of the 360, especially as it's apparantly coming early next year, which would be far sooner than any previous FF game.

PLOT TWIST!
He's a troll!

jk or AM I?

Apparently you both are.

Believe it or not, it takes time to translate games from any other language to English. Even if they have exceptionally good native speakers of both English and Japanese working on their translation staff(IE, someone who grew up with English watching English tv, etc and having English speaking parents but went to Japanese school/university while living in Japan).

You'd still need this languistically talented person to take the time to write out the entire dialogue, translate to English, proof read the English, possibly revise the English depending upon how lame the translated dialogue turned out, possibly censor either homosexual or bisexuals into 'females', etc. If they managed to finish all the stages in 3-6 months, they'd be doing a pretty above average job. Heck, I'm in Japan right now and saw an advertisement for 'The Prosposal' coming out to theatres 10/6. Four months after its North American release and they'll only be subtitling. No voice-over work.

Now all we need to know is how the PS3 and 360 versions are going to differ...

PS3 version will have Japanese, therefore, confirmed for Otaku

We recommend those with limited shelf space buy the ps3 version.

they can fit 4 cases in a box.. only my Halo 3 box takes up too much room.. but it's worth it

I would make weather related pun here but I wont...

Oh, to hell with it...

It's gonna Snow in LA!

....I'm gonna downvote myself now...

I like how Snow's jacket almost merges perfectly with the Chinatown Wars art.

Neat. Final Fantasy: Chinatown Wars.

i drove by these today:D

why don't SE move the date to Dec.12 2012, so if the world does end they can blame that for the delay.

It's the 21st

D'oh!! you're right. Thanks Terry.

That xbox logo still has to kill the sony fanboys

It only kills those who hate 360, but it also makes me relief to see how Sony`s mistakes made their console this way.

you kill me with your one liners.

Hmph, that`s true. Even though I remember they say they`ll release the game all over the world in one day just like Konami did with MGS4.

buckles the size of a minivan!

Chinatown Wars got delayed again, huh?

I can haz grrly man?

Freakin' Sweet

they really are quite awesome in person. just snapped my own photos yesterday morning, crap quality but still. i cannot wait for E3!

would love to see that covering the empire state building

"Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! "

It's Airman, bitch. And I'm bringing the pain.

"I got a fan installed in my grill, no lie.

I'm gonna blow your ass straight off the map, goodbye!"

XD

Too bad I can't beat airman.

Oh yeah, I brought it, placed another song in this topic lol.

And to continue on with your song

Beat you breathe you make you CO2, Blow all you want my Leaf Shield Repels you So blow me phony your who act's baloney you don't even pose a threat I'm not fretting it homie.

Shit! I'm as useless as bubbleman!

rofl, I love that vid.

Looks like they are promoting cross dressing with that half pic of GTA up :D

Looks like they're promoting cross dressing with those Final Fantasy pics up.

Whaaaaaat!!!

you cant TELL me they didnt get vanille from urahara kisuke. they're frickin brothers!

SNOW. not vanille

Redhead. Pigtails. I'm sold.

thinking the same thing

i think giant video game posters are up year round in LA

No. It's usually sports related, since Staples Center is next to the hotel towers. Once it was Target.

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