Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII General Discussion and News Thread

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Ignoring the content for a moment, the editing work of that trailer is stunning, I'll have to say. It couldn't have been anything other than arduous to put together, so massive props to the person(s) responsible for that.

But there's nothing much I can praise about the rest of it. For a launch trailer, I suppose it gets the job done, despite the fact that it's staggeringly woeful compared to the FFXII and FFXIII launch trailers. The music does nothing for me, coming off as sounding like stock music from a free public domain site.

The
Lightning and Serah
bit is downright bizarre, hands down. It's obvious what they were trying to show and convey in those few seconds, but it looks oddly creepy.
 

Storm2356

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Still can't wait for the game to come out in North America. I don't care how predictable the story seems to be, it looks fun enough to own to me. Besides, even if we think it's predictable, the story might still not be what we think.
 
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The Launch trailer looks like it was made to portray and anime opening kind of thing.

So I don't know if western audiences would even like it unless they like shounen-esque anime openings.

The models made me laugh a bit---specifically the part where Lightning is sort of twisted up to show the title and when Serah is flying through the Crux, her leg is all wat.

Lumina now disturbs me because of this video, though. She looks much more childlike in motion, now.
 
So for any interested parties, the alleged FINAL scene of Lightning Returns is:

WARNING: Spoiler (duh)

Note: It's a link hidden in the spoiler tabs.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/800388dff0a59d05d08b5741050e37d3/tumblr_mwn4ujoUC91qhmu9mo1_1280.png

What immediately popped into my mind when I saw this?

Modern world that's sort of reality-like. Lightning in FFXV. It sounds scarily plausible now. Maybe. Who knows. Haha. I just want to watch the world burn, don't I?
 

Storm2356

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So for any interested parties, the alleged FINAL scene of Lightning Returns is: ~snip~
Alright, theory time.
WARNING: Superdee duper potentially spoilerific theories ahead. You have been warned, and thus I am not at fault for you having been potentially spoiled. Good day, sir/madam.

This either means that Lightning and all of the rest got put in a (from that screenie) normal looking world and remember everything, or, in what seems to be a cliche way of ending a story, got put in a normal world where, in the new timeline, none of it ever happened, and thus, they don't remember a thing yet still conveniently know each other, leaving us with a happy ending either way.
 
Last thing I'll say about the (possible) ending as I understand it (I don't want the thread to go deeply down the spoilers-and-ending route, because that will probably be better in its own spoiler thread:

It seems like it is a happy ending after all. The protagonists squash false Gods in the first game, and Bunnybelts, i.e. an actual God, is squashed in this game. Freed from fate and subservience and all that, Lightning and friends are all reunited and whisked off to a happy new world that looks remarkably like our Earth. And I apologise to whoever hasn't finished Xenoblade yet for spoiling this, but ah, screw it. It's basically a Xenoblade ending.
 

Storm2356

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Last thing I'll say about the (possible) ending as I understand it (I don't want the thread to go deeply down the spoilers-and-ending route, because that will probably be better in its own spoiler thread: ~snip~
Last thing I'll say about it:
EDIT: Should have put this in before, but the spoiler after this is a spoiler for the anime RahXephon.
It's also a RahXephon ending.
Also I could make this aforementioned spoiler thread.
 
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yeah_93

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Why don't you have a spoiler thread elsewhere, and leave this one without ending spoilers please? I know they are tagged, but it's more difficult to keep a discussion if everyone's just rambling about the ending.
 

UNKLE

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So for any interested parties, the alleged FINAL scene of Lightning Returns is:

WARNING: Spoiler (duh)

Note: It's a link hidden in the spoiler tabs.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/800388dff0a59d05d08b5741050e37d3/tumblr_mwn4ujoUC91qhmu9mo1_1280.png

What immediately popped into my mind when I saw this?

Modern world that's sort of reality-like. Lightning in FFXV. It sounds scarily plausible now. Maybe. Who knows. Haha. I just want to watch the world burn, don't I?
This is not true, its more like FRANCE And looks like i was right bhuni is the final boss and in the end you created a new world without gods,magic and other thing only humans left....WOW what a easily prediction game this, always hated games like this.No plot twist? nothing... what a stupid ending...
 
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chinparu48

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Im very surprised by the OST, a huge step from FFXIII-2's one. Still not on the level of the original game, but sounds great also.
 
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Sigh..... 3 more months....
Trying to go full black out mode but it's impossible to visit tumblr without spoilers so I had to unfollow some people.

Not visiting gamefaqs or checking out LR threads very much. This is the only safe place for now.

But good grief, Square y dis. Waiting 3 months while everyone discusses spoilers ahhhhh
 

Leon Aether

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@Kagari will you make a small review for the game after you complete your LR streaming on Twitch? Or comment here about it? I think many of us would like to read such a review, regardless the fact the game satisfied you or not...
 

BoN

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I just finished the game. Although I don't like this Toriyama's plot, but Watanabe's script was beautiful. In my opinion, this game is better than 13-1, but 13-2 is the best.

The game's quite hard in Normal mode. So I chose to play in easy, and spend 29 hrs in easy mode to finish game.

I have some question that might be spoiler...

I don't see the France ending which Lightning live on earth.

After Staff rolls, THE END word appear on the screen. Then it's back to menu title.

So how to obtain that ending? May be it's for Normal and Hard mode?

P.S. the greatest weapon, Ultima Weapon is in last dungeon. It has strong stats. (ATK+2500, MAG+2500) That's great :)