Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer, now in English

by JC Fletcher on Jan 20th 2011 10:12AM

The Square Enix giveth, and the Square Enix taketh away. The Japanese Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer from the 1st Production Dept. Premiere Event has been removed from YouTube, but now it's been posted officially (making it less likely to be pulled) and in English.

The comprehensible dialogue only intensifies the severity of our spoiler warning, however. If you don't want to see content from the ending of Final Fantasy XIII, don't watch the trailer. Consider the sneak peek at FFXIII-2 a reward for completing that adventure -- or a reward for not really caring about spoilers.

Source: PlayStation Blog EU

Tags: final-fantasy-xiii-2, microsoft, playstation, ps3, square-enix, xbox

Reader Comments (105)

I don't like my reward..

So now they're ripping off Valkyrie Profile?

@Cleric oh wow i didn't realize the similarities until I read your comment

@Cleric
Well, that depends, can you rip off a game that you own the rights to? I'm pretty sure you can't.

@Cleric care to explain what you mean?

@Cleric Maybe it's just me but whoever Lightning is fighting looks kinda like byakuya

@Vegna

Yes you can. You can 'legally' do it, but it's still ripping off. Tri-Ace is not Square.

There's something seriously wrong if the other FF trailers don't show up in better quality soon.

@Godmars
They're supposed to have the official versions of the rest up next week. I think they said Tuesday but don't quote me on it. Hopefully they'll all be in english as well (and give us a Dissidia 2 NA release date)

@Godmars
Uhh... turn HD on maybe?

has she become a gray warden?

@mocax

I'm hoping she doesn't survive the Joining.

@mocax
She doesn't have the smoky eyes.
Damn, Sacred Ashes was badass.

FFXIII was a weird experience. After about 10-20 hours I regretted to have pre ordered it and stopped playing for about 2 months. Then after 2-3 other tries I finally got in the game for good and was more than happy to have this wonderful title. The game was not instant fun with its new battle system and extremely linear exept for end game content, but it is enough good to pre order its sequel.

This is gonna be another great game.

@rezhoner I agree. The beginning of the game did nothing to show how great the combat system is. If you stuck it out until disc 3 the battle system was pretty satisfying. Overall I really enjoyed the game, though I can certainly recognize the criticisms. I am really looking forward to the sequel (and hearing the debate on the debate on the podcast).

@Brian333 haha... Disk 3.
I forgot it was Multi-disc on the Xbox :-P

@rezhoner - The instant grinding you have to do near the end of the game once you get to the open-world area (can't remember the name; it's basically the place people living in Cocoon deemed hell); the majority of the game, you could just keep truckin along, not worrying about if you have your characters to a certain level. Once you reached "hell", it certainly felt like it, with enemies taking 20 level jump increases instantly.

Sorry, but that difficulty curve was way too much for me. And no, this wasn't my first Final Fantasy game.

@rezhoner I stopped playing at about the same point, yet haven't picked it up again. maybe I will try now.

@Nintendo Tim

the "hell" is Gran Pulse and you aren't supposed to fight all of the enemies down there right away, you need to grind and master the Paradigm system more first. remember you can always run around the big enemies since they have a very distinct range of view and can only see you if you get within a certain distance of them.

@Nintendo Tim At no point in the game did I ever need to grind except to complete the upgrades for the achievement after I was done with everything. It sounds like you never experimented using the classes. Or you didn't do it very well. Saz's red Mage skills with Vanillas white Mage defeat any obstacle.

@Nintendo Tim
You gotta fight the small stuff first. anything bigger than a wolf WILL kill you at first. that's kinda the point.

@Vegna It's not any different than FFXII where you see that huge level TRex roaming about in the beginning.

Or the Midgar Zolom! It's YOUR choice to fight.

@Jack Kevorkian - I experimented to a point; I never delved head-first into the Paradigm system, but I dabbled a bit to understand what Square was doing. For more difficult enemies or bosses, I frequently used the Commando/Ravager to stagger enemies, but after a successful stagger, I would switch the party up to a Synergist/Saboteur combo to power up the party with either a Sentinel or Medic, depending on the party's health situation. Hell, I even still have a bookmark folder dedicated to various weapon guides and multiple paradigm patterns to test.

According to xbox.com, I last played the game back in April, so I feel that there's going to be a quite large relearning curve, and I feel Gran Pulse might not be the best place to do that.

@Nintendo Tim Well it sounds like you knew what you were doing honestly. Maybe like these guys said you bit off much more than you could chew? I hung around the crashed ship before I really took on anything in the big field. Then I started with wolves, moving up the food chain to the eventual blue turtles. The blue turtles took an awfully long time to "get" and then each fight took around 20 minutes.

@Nintendo Tim

You aren't really supposed to fight most of the enemies in Pulse until after you finish the game. Why, you ask? You can only level yourself up so much with the Crystarium still mostly locked. It isn't until after you complete the main story that you're able to fully level up. Also, you're supposed to use the buffs/debuffs oriented paradigms before you actually stagger the enemy, as when the enemy is staggered is your best shot at doing the most damage.

@Mixer23

Finishing the main story only unlocks the last level of the Cryst.

You can still upgrade every other job up to the second last level. Getting the last level makes barely any difference.

@rezhoner
Basically they just made the linear section at the start of the game way too long compared to every other FF game ever made... Just make the starting linear section shorter and it'll be an even better game!

@Mixer23 - Well, I would necessarily start off hammering away with my Commando/Ravager at the start of a difficult battle, but I would have my Saboteur/Synergists at the helm to throw out (de)buffs left and right, /then/ I would throw it over and start dishing out damage.

From what I remember, the leveling system would only let you get so far, and story progression would advance your character further. Then again, like I said earlier, I haven't played the game in nearly a year.

@Jack Kevorkian - It has to be. I would wander out into Pulse at first, see some Behemoths walking around with the huge wolves (Fang?) and would immediately become overwhelmed, thinking that this is the obligatory part of the game where I just bend over and grab my ankles.

I'm on a couple different games right now (Vanquish and Crackdown 2) with Dead Space 2 coming out Tuesday. When I get the time, I'll bring the game back out and give Pulse another whirl.

I makes me want to finish that last C'eth stone mission in XIII.

MOAR Lost fuvcking Odyssey less Auto-Game Final Fantasies dammit.

@SpiderKnives Auto-Game HA. try auto beating some later bosses and groups of monsters they gonna rip your ass off and wear it like a hat. did you even finished XIII?

@DokiDokiBawanga
Agreed 100%

@DokiDokiBawanga It was the most challenging FF I ever played. 12 could get tough in spots too though.

XI was the hardest though ;)

Hopefully they keep the battle system. Just make it more open world like old ff's and I'm happy. I didn't think FF13 was as bad as people say, but it is definitely lacking because of the linear nature of the game.

What happened to the Xbox360 release? That one only says ps3 for winter release. Hope it's just a delay and not a removal.

@mistykz probably just a thing joystiq did for discussion (looking at their ads).

@mistykz
Maybe they'll compress it properly this time (& patch Leona Lewis off XIII for ruining the ending).. Doesn't bother me if it's excluive.. I have both consoles

@Mazrael I have both as well, but I much prefer my 360

@mistykz Since its featured on the EU Playstation Blog, I'm assuming no one at Sony wanted to show a trailer that advertises the 360.

I hate Ff12 -style armor!

@Soc Kind of a sidetrack. I felt FF 12 had the coolest costume design in the series. The armor design was both badass and practical.

And before anyone mentions it. I've strategically forgotten Vaan's outfit by holding my breath and banging my head on a coffee table for several hours.

@EvoHelix
I personally agree. 5/6 or the party's costumes in that game were pretty good, as were all of the costumes for the villains.

Unfortunately I have to look forward to Vaan's ugly self again in Dissidia 012. at least I can beat him up in that one, though.

@EvoHelix

If Vaan wasn't in that game entirely...I really think people would have liked XII so much more :(.

...the same way I feel if Hope wasn't in XIII, I wouldn't hate the game anymore...I'd just be slightly annoyed with it.

@EvoHelix I actually disliked most of 12's costume design. It was the height of the belt and zipper era costumes, lots of random details that really served no purpose.

what is the premise of this game?

@stukorn
The "premise" is that it's a sequel to FFXIII

@baby sea tuna And after 30 hours, you're dropped into an MMO that no-one else is logged in to.

Am I the only one who first saw the shadow on the person on the left's face as a wide open mouth at first?

@DarrylKensley

A sequel to Lost Odyssey would make my year! I loved that game.

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