Latest update on the FFXIII side of things:

The next issue of V-Jump magazine has the scoop on three characters that appear in the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII demo, set to be included in Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete. From left to right, we've got Rebro, Gadou, and Marquis, each of which will be playable in the demo. All three are supposedly part of "Team Nora," which is lead by Snow Villiers.

Not much else is known about these characters, except that it's said Gadou is deathly afraid of barbers, Marquis is a "Toys R Us kid" and Rebro is a big fan of pancakes -- when asked if waffles were a suitable substitute, he described them as "the devil's cranny treat." We're totally not lying. It's in the V-Jump article.*

*No, it's not. You've been hoodwinked.

Source: http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009/02/17/three-new-final-fantasy-xiii-characters-revealed/

Does FFXIII even have anything like this?

or this?

Where are these at?

Come on S-E, at least tell me the damn game has Moogles.

I feel like this is going to end up like FFXII all over again. I really hope not though.

This is extremely old news, but it still bothers me how Square put in a "token" black character for marketing/image purposes when most Japanese people have never even seen a black man face to face.

When will the FFXIII demo be released in the US?

Sometimes I feel like it isn't "Final Fantasy" anymore.

Too much of this "Westernizing" crap. How depressing.

old news, even though i didn't know the names

it's so far from a NA release that this news isn't exciting at all.

Please S-E! Let me have things like this again!!!!

Oh look, it's that game that I might be playing in late 2010 at the earliest since I'm european.

Oh goodness, does the girl on the left have a gun? Didn't the new black character have one as well?

Why all these guns in my Final Fantasy all of a sudden?