New Japanese Final Fantasy XIII trailer, new character, has a small chocobo

So the official Japanese Final Fantasy 13 site has a new trailer for the game. It's in Japanese of course, but everyone knows that flashy animation works just as well in any language.

It's very much what you would expect from them considering what the previous trailers have been like. So, flashy action, very little gameplay. There is a 20 seconds or so of some battle gameplay in there, which is more than than 0.3 seconds on the older trailers. It looks like some kind of a hybrid of traditional turn based action and FF12 style free movement. It's probably still random encounters unlike FF12 though, but that you can move inside the battle field. Maybe. It's hard to tell really, there's also a big chance that the movement I see in it is just AI movement, and nothing else, making the combat less of a hybrid and just generic traditional combat. The trailer is available in two sizes, 640x360 and 1280x720.

There's also a few more new things on the site, some kind of a message, but it's also in Japanese, so who knows what that says. A new character called Sazh is also revealed, who apparently has a tiny chocobo as a pet. I don't know what to say about that. It's a tiny chocobo. So I guess that's pretty cool.

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on January 29th 2009 at 10:42am