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I have a feeling the game will be no longer than 15 hours, they do say that want you to replay the game many times to see different things. Don't like that at all.
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Lightning Returns: FFXIII screenshots and extended Jump Festa trailer
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Probably not... I mean I can beat FFXIII-2 fairly quickly as well now even though my first playthrough was about 20 hours. The second attempt was well under that.
Yeah I hate that approach too. Just give me a full meaty storyline on my first playthrough that makes sense and is fulfilling. Granted there could be a New Game Plus mode that will unlock some secrets on second playthrough but that's about it.
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Oh. XIII-2 took me like 65 hours, but I plat'd the game, even used the collectors edition guide in some parts. That was more fragment hunting though.
Well, this is story only though (I'm taking it as). I would at they very least expect the same amount of side content. Just not a very long main quest in one playthrough.
60 hours for the Platinum for me, but it was 20 to finish the story.
If they manage to make replaying the days as varied as Majora it's not an issue as we'd end up going to completely new areas with each playthrough. If the case is that we need to replay the exact same areas then it does suck, but XIII-2 for the most part understood how to make this kind of thing work (sort of).
They've already stated the ending doesn't change much whether you do all side content or not.
No I meant getting a 'WTF just happened?' ending and then Toriyama saying, well you gotta play through the game a few more times for it all to make sense. That's what I'm worried about.
Super high-res version of that Lightning render... you can see the zippers in detail now...
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In the case of Majora's Mask you played entirely new content each time you rewinded to the first day. You'd use the new equipment you acquired to gain access to new areas and dungeons, and you actually couldn't beat the final boss before you went through all the dungeons so even though you could ignore a truckload of optional content you still needed to play through all the main content if you wanted to beat the game (which doesn't seem to be the case in LR, unless the main story is indeed very short). I don't mind having meaty things unlocked after you beat the game for the first time, but I understand getting annoyed by it in some cases (really depends on how much of the game you need to replay and how much the character stays evolved).
That sounds a bit silly though, what's the point in making you able to reach the end so quickly then if it's always going to be pretty much the same? Might as well artificially lengthen it and make a chunk of the side content obligatory to avoid "game is too short" criticism.
I'm curious what happens if you start the game and then never move, since the game ends after 13 in-game days regardless.
I don't get why there are even zippers if there's no way to unzip them.
You go to the end boss.
I don't get how any part of that costume is considered anything short of dreadful. Her sleeves, her legs, her everything. The FFXIII outfit looked fine..
Well, that'd be awful for a guy like me that sucks at hard games. Soooo.... don't think I'll be doing that.
I realize it was silly to nitpick the zippers..... but I don't get them! But yes, the entire thing is awful.
Ah good point, didn't think of it this way. Anyway, regardless of the ending or how soon you can get to it it's the quality of the playable content that will make or break it for me. The map of the game doesn't look so big so I hope they try to make the best of it.
I don't think the concept art is very telling of the size... If (sorry for bringing it up so much) TCB is anything to go by, the game will probably be pretty big.
TCB's own in-game menu map was deceptively small, since it made it seem like all areas were squished together in this tiny colorful piece of land but once you actually traveled in-game through them, you realized they were all quite big, and all of them interconnected like you'd expect in a game like, say, Twilight Princess.
Interestingly, they've only shown 1 district of the city going by the official site. So I'm interested in seeing if they will slowly update like that. Area by area in each continent. So it can end up pretty big, I think. I actually think it's fairly massive just by going that they've only shown a station and a district.
They're also now expanding the world by Goli's new info, so there's that.
They're also now expanding the world by Goli's new info, so there's that.
It's horrendous. I was hoping Toriyama would have explained it in this week's interviews, but alas.
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I suppose the black armor might have some kind of meaning, but the overall thing is just so weird, that I would be more interested in reading Nomura's thoughts.
There are 20+ others, and you can change their colors too. You'll probably get different swords and shields as well.
Nomura: I honestly couldn't give two fucks about it. Now to find my Versus team...
A few more high resolution bullshots:
Dat geometry. FF8 is blushing.
Or you can just change the shield to black or white/brown if you want probably.
Considering he mostly aped the overall idea from his own design of the armored Dragoon lady from Versus this is probably not far from the truth. :lol
Imagine how much more entertaining AC would have been if Cloud exposed his crotch through the entire movie!
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