Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Makes Players Manage Time
Lighting Returns, the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII title, uses a time mechanic. In the game, the world has only 13 days left before it ends. In a recent interview with 4Gamer, game designer Motomu Toriyama went into slightly more detail about the game’s time mechanic.
As mentioned above, the time limit in-game is 13 days. Square Enix is still nailing down how long one day is in real play time, but Toriyama mentioned that they’re now thinking between one and two hours.
However, when those 13 days are up, Toriyama said the game ends. You can extend your time by, for example, completing a quest or defeating enemies. Expect more details on this as the game’s release nears.
The game’s structure does mean that the way you use your time can result in a different play experience, even different cutscenes, from other players, making Lightning Returns sound like a time management game.
What’s more, it’s not even possible to see all the cutscenes in one play through. According to Toriyama, this game structure makes it possible to offer a new experience.
Source: Kotaku
I’m liking the strong theme of time travel in FFXIII, as well as having other gameplay changes in battles.
Badass ladies to the right.
(via badass-barmaid)
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Lightning (FFXIII), Jecht (FFX), Kain (FFIV), Vaan (FFXII), Laguna (FFVIII), Tifa (FFVII), Zidane (FFIX) + Yuna (FFX).
They’re my BroTP.
(via just-use-a-phoenix-down)
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Snow: It’s not really like GAME OVER, you can always restart it..
This video cracks me up every time.
“Steelguard!!!”
I kind of wished this was actually part of the game. But alas, at least the voice actors can make meta happen.
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It’s like an Fantasy Herbal Essence commercial!
This is really dandy, and the small details on the clothes and weapons are just amazing.
Perhaps Lightning took up weapons collecting like Gilgamesh.
(via victoryfanfare)
(How do people do amazing things like this? It’s on a PSP, for Cosmos’ sake! The photo manipulation is amazing).
I’d like to think this is how Aerith throws birthday parties for other people. I think it’s Yuna’s birthday, then.
xD
In which it’s been discovered that Gran Pulse food is an acquired taste for all.
Courtesy of this person.
So obviously this is a ploy by Exdeath who was looking for the Void, so he got Golbez to distract passersby by bringing along a cute pet and hiding behind his bulky armor and size.
Made by this person.
