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A "Prequel Trilogy" for one important series could be in the making at Square Enix

Probably going to be more Enix than Square.....


Also

Lightning Begins: Final Fantasy XIII-0

Lightning Begins, episodes I-III

Lightning Begins: The Young Lightning Chronicles

Calm Before the Storm: FFXIII

Lightning begins

Oh no. Not more Final Fantasy XIII

Anything but that

Lightning never dies confirmed

Final Fantasy XIII Babies: Lightning Loses Her First Tooth, and other tales.

Lightning: The Early Years

Lightning Begins: Nomura's Hunger

Final Fantasy: The Phantom Lightning.
Final Fantasy: The Lightning Wars.
Final Fantasy: Revenge of The Lightning.

more like:

Lightning DemiMinus 167/3: Final Fantasy
~ the 13th Birthday ~

Lightning's Delivery. A sequence of QTEs in which you need to make her breathe after being born. The sequels are about her learning to walk and talk.

It's gonna be the three FFXIII games re-released on PS4 in anticipation of a new FFXIII game.

Oh God, I want it to be FF XIII-0 now, the reception would be insane lmao

I cannot imagine this being anything other than a Lightning prequel trilogy unfortunately. What a waste that may/will be.

Fabula Nova Crystalis: Direct Deposit Heart Initiate XIII: Prequel Trilogy

XIII prequel trilogy is so happening.

Final Fantasy praecessor XIII: aeternum scrotum caeruleus per Fulmen

I lost all hope in Square Enix

Just no more Final Fantasy XIII, please. Let us forget.

Final Fantasy XIII Prequel: Planet of Lightning
Final Fantasy XIII Prequel 2: Rise of the Planet of Lightning
Final Fantasy XIII Prequel 3: Dawn of the Planet of Lightning

Make it happen, SE!

FF XIII Prequel Trilogy:

Final Fantasy XIII: Birth by Lightning
Final Fantasy XIII: Rise of Lightning
Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Strikes


Please be excited!

Cloud vs Lightning: Chapter I
Cloud vs Lightning: Chapter II
Cloud vs Lightning: Chapter III

...

Final Fantasy XIII: Before the Transgression ( Caius and Yuel)
Final Fantasy XIII: War of Transgression
Final Fantasy XIII: The First 13 Days

....wow
 
I think we can reasonably assume the recent inclusion in the humble square bundle belies the fact it can only be the hitherto unseen daikatana prequels.
 
Does FF7 even need more prequels? I thought all the holes have been plugged and the next step is
Genisis returning?
 
Does FF7 even need more prequels? I thought all the holes have been plugged and the next step is
Genisis returning?

A prequel starring a young Tifa who must fend for herself while adjusting to her new life in Midgar, overcoming her recent trauma and meeting up with Barret to join his resistance is a story I've wanted to see for a while.

This probably won't be that.
 
Kingdom hearts most likely based off that secret ending in Birth By Sleep Final Mix.
Please square give us more Aqua we had enough of lightning
 
That would be hilarious if its related to Lightning and Final Fantasy 13. Tomb Raider is already a reboot, hitman? I'm drawing a blank.
 
The only FF prequels I'd be interested is a prequel of FFIX, set during
Terra's golden age(before he was even on the verge of destruction and needed to feed off other planets). Back when it resembled Gaia, a fantasy world rich with mystery(and locations like Oeilvert, Desert Palace and Ipsen's Castle), and everybody was oblivious to the fact that, one dark day in the distant future, their world will become a planet eating parasite.
. Also, would love it to be handled by a bulk of the classic FFIX team(Itou included, probably get Itahana on boards, and contract Minaba as well).

That or one featuring the heroes who eventually took down Jenova for the first time(sealing it in the geological stratum thousands of years ago). I always figured that even, like FFVII, featured a band of Cetran heros facing the odds and using their special powers to defeat Jenova and those tainted by her. I'd actually find that pretty interesting. Though, given Square, they can't have a FFVII game that doesn't at least acknowledge fan favorites like Cloud. That would be sacrilege to fanboys!
 
Maybe.....Finally.....

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No, no, stop. I mustn't do this to myself. It will never happen.

; ;
 
I wouldn't mind a trio of prequel digital titles for FFXIII. I had wanted to see Pulse back in Vanille/Fang's day. A second title for Lightning in the military. A third pachinko game starting Sazh.
 
Maybe it was a terrible mistranslation and instead of a series of prequels on for one series, it was instead three individual prequels for different series, i.e a KH prequel, a FF prequel, and another series prequel.

Perhaps? Maybe? No?
 
Probably not going to be Lightning. But damn, I really wish it was. The XIII saga really has some of the most interesting prequel potential out of all the games I've played in the FF series. The death of Etro and the creation of the human race. The War of Transgression. The height of the l'cie, in numbers and in cruelty. The creation of Cocoon as Lindzei rips apart Pulse and steals raw materials from the wreckage. Fang and Vanille launching their first attack on Cocoon and ripping a giant hole in it as Ragnarok. Caius and Yeul when they actually lived in Paddra. So much potential.

As far as my realistic guess for what it is? I honestly have no idea.
 
Final Fantasy 7... three games about the crashlanding of JENOVA and the wizard wars in which she was destroyed and contained in her final dead form with just few cells surviving.






I would play that.
 
Ahhh, I eagerly await the FF XIII Sequel Trilogy, in which we focus our journey on Thunder, son of Lightning (because thunder always comes after lighting. KA-CHOW!), only like a similar other sequel in development at the moment, you'll see her front and centre, through and through.
 
Great. You got me excited just to be let down.

Cyberpunk Dystopian Setting

Commentary on nuclear war and population decline

Creation of the unquestionably most awesome party member in Xenogears, or any game with Xeno in the title

Why was this never made???
 
Anything but FF13, I'll take a mobile prequel to All the Bravest before another FF13 game. I love to joke about the game and stuff, but making another three more games about that would be suicide, seeing the sales decay from FF13 to LR.

Also, this is a bit selfish but I wouldn't want them to do anything with FF6, not because I don't like the game, the opposite, I love it. But seeing how Square is today, they would just fuck everything and make a mess, so my hopes are for KH prequels and FF7-10 prequels.
 
This is going to have to do with everything BUT FF7.

Why, you ask?

Because fuck you, that's why.

I feel like we need to come together as a community and buy the everliving fuck out of every copy of whatever the next FF game is to force their hand on their "We won't re-make Final Fantasy 7 until we make a more successful FF game than it." bullshit.
 
I think I solved it.

Crisis Core 2, 3 and a Retconned Version of FF7 in which
Zack Didn't die and Cloud Did

I Dare Square Enix to make this.
 
Sequel to Crisis Core will actually be just the original FF7. Can't really expand that series any further.

Prequel of Crisis Core where you play as Sephiroth/Angeal/Genesis where they just started their SOLDIER career. The game features character switching like GTA V with the whole Midgard as the open world area.
 
Maybe.....Finally.....

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No, no, stop. I mustn't do this to myself. It will never happen.

; ;

As much as I would LOVE to see Xenogears in all it's glory, it'll never happen without Takahashi (as was mentioned before).

Xenocross is hopefully his chance to start that universe over.
 
I bet Toriyama is reading the thread and going 'Huh I thought they've hated it, but they're already coming up with the titles! GAF loves Lightning after all!'
 
Why a trilogy? You can't accomplish it in one game?

I guess it's because SE likes to put 1080p CG movies into their games so with the current trend of increasing size of data in a game, they will likely run out of disc space unless they implement multiple discs.
 
I'm sure Lightning has more stories to tell to fill in another trilogy. FF Type-0 also to be changed to FFXIII Type-0 and feature her exclusively.
 
Prequel of Crisis Core where you play as Sephiroth/Angeal/Genesis where they just started their SOLDIER career. The game features character switching like GTA V with the whole Midgard as the open world area.

I don't know if they can further expand their backstories. And even 2 of the trio (Angeal and Genesis) does not have an interesting backstory
aside from being Project G babies like Sephiroth.
 
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