Vanquish demo on September 2nd on Japan

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A203D said:

Yeah i know what you mean about that actully, we knew far too much about FF13 years before it was released, too much about the story and the characters. and i was like that actully, i saw a vid of FF13 when it was released in Japan, so i could check out the battle system, and i spoiled a small part of the story for myself. so now, never again. you just have to try and look forward to something else that will tide you over. i dont have that problem at the moment, because of my lack of faith in SE.

but yeah Mistwalker is Sakaguchi's company, and Microsoft funded it under the agreement he would make 2 exclusive titles for the 360. now thats done it seems like he has nothing more to do with them. i suppose they were trying to trigger a surge of RPG interest in the console, and he couldnt do it, so they decided to pay $75mil for FF13. so i dont think he cares or they care at the moment. but Last Story does look very good man, very good.

dont get me wrong all that stuff you said about versus sounds good and will probabily lead to great gameplay, no doubt. Nomura nails it with Kingdom Hearts and apparently TWEWY is also a stunning game. but my problem with FF13 was the story and the way the story was told.i'm concerned that it will end up like FF13 where we have far too many cutscenes that beat around the bush, with stuff like 'Serah says so'. and we'll never get to the meat of the Fabula Nova Crystalisis, they'll leave us hanging.

sorry to put a downer on it, but i dont like the direction the series is going with longer cutscenes that leave you with more cutscenes, and none of the questions unanswered. we waited 5 years for FF13, and all we got was 6 hours of 'Serah says so'. imo cutscenes arnt the only way to tell a story, if you've played Valkyria Chronicles then you should know what i mean. but Nomura is not Kitase, so hopefully he knows what hes doing with this!!

Aah, so The Last Story is made by Mistwalker? That's good because that means they don't only make Xbox 360 games... so maybe some day we will have a Sakaguchi game released on the PS3 :D

I think you wanted to see more about the Mythology in Final Fantasy XIII, right? Well... I think Versus XIII will show a lot more about that than XIII did... I mean, one of the trailers showed Noctis and Stella talking near a painting that's supposed to be the goddes Etro which makes me think that the mythology will play a bigger role in the cutscenes this time. I think Final Fantasy XIII cutscenes were on par with older FF games lengthwise... they didn't seem longer... in fact I think they were a bit shorter than older FFs cutscenes :P

BTW, since Nomura didn't direct XIII I think that will be reflected in Versus XIII's story being told in a different way than XIII... besides this one will have a "darker" story... which sounds promising :P.

Oh, and I haven't played Valkyria Chronicles yet but I probably will someday :P

Personally, I don't care about cutscenes being long... in fact, I like that :P As long as the story is interesting ^_^

I think we have derailed this thread way too much... it's about Vanquish demo and we are talking about FFXIII and Versus XIII xD