“There is a certain enemy in Final Fantasy XIII that we developed called the scale beast” or at least that’s what it was called during development. “We ran into a serious problem with this monster. We found that during gameplay when the player would bring this monster to a stagger that all of its scales would pop off its body.” After fighting with the programming and the models for a while, Yuji Abe began to have a change of heart. “We decided to keep this bug in the game. After some cleanup and some programming adjustments this scale popping effect turned out to be an enjoyable animation that we never intended.”

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5590

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LOL So that was a bug that they kept and not part of the original creature design? That's awesome. Interesting article, though I'm not sure what's so groundbreaking about Sazh; Barret was the first.

wow thats really awesome!!!

it did look weird lol

I thought it was intentional though!

also Lightning isn' the first main Female FF character, Terra is

in fact Kitase (producer of FF13) DIRECTED FF6.....so I don't know why he told them that....lol @ him!

unless the website added that in themselves!

Yeah, what a strange bug. I totally didn't think it was out of place when I fought it. I thought it was just another one of their crazy monster ideas.

I thought Locke was the main main character for 6?

Perhaps because FFVI has no main character. For some people Celes is the main Female. For me, Setzer Gabbiani is the main character. :)

Hahahaha, pretty awesome.

I really did find it odd that every Scale beast type of enemy suddendly lose all of it's scales when Staggered, but thankfully this is one good bug XD