Looking foreward to it. It looks pretty fantastic actually, though I enjoyed FFXIII quite a bit so maybe I'm a lil biased.

Where they hell is Versus XIII though? I hate to beat a dead horse but I seriously want to know whats going on with that game

Do we get to play as lightning in this??

Yes

When? Is it in the middle of the game? How come it says Serah and that other guy in the screenshot??

lol I haven't been following XIII-2 news, I'm still in the middle of XIII and didn't want any spoilers... It's just that lightning is the reason why I started playing FF13 in the first place XD

True, even last stone mission "boss" was pretty easy. I really hope for some "weapon" or such. Weapons, Dark Aeons, man, such great memories... And in XIII? Nothing.

Everything sounds good so far, but the one thing that I can see people being upset about, is if most of the game will be played with monsters as the third character.

They were hard, some of them were hard as shit. They just didn't feel grand or epic in anyway.

For the last Cie'th stone to be that stupid flying thing with a tail is a bit of a buzz kill.

^Yeah, I don't like it when games let you train monsters and such because it is always never done right. To be honest, this is the ONLY thing that keeps me from being 100% excited... I hope that part of the game is good enough though..

At first I was like "oh god please no", but then I remembered ToS:DotNW and that was pretty cool actually

But how does this bode for people like me (lightning fans)??

I'm going to assume that it will be at sporadic times throughout the story but at roughly the 60-70% mark she becomes a fulltime playable character. I'll be absolutely pissed if I don't have her in the main party at all through the entire game.