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One myth, countless stories
FINAL FANTASY XIII
The New Tale of the Crystal
Like the light that shines through the Crystal,
the universe shines with multi-colored content.


The Thirteenth Chapter is collectively called Fabula Nova Crystallis,
which means 'Tale of the New Crystal'.



The series will consist of many games, much like the FFVII compiliation,
although only three titles have currently been disclosed.

Final Fantasy XIII - [PS3] [Xbox 360] - [Title]

Final Fantasy Versus XIII - [PS3] - [Title]

Final Fantasy Agito XIII - [PSP] - [Title]

With a fourth title discovered 'Haeresis', however it has not been announced.

Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII - [N/A] - [Title]

There will be more games.
"However, the three new titles are only the beginning of the evolution of FABULA NOVA CRYSTALLIS,
with more announcements regarding other facets of the project scheduled for the near future." - SquareEnix
Apparently at least six titles are being planned, as indicated here.



Latest News

25-11-09 - Last Trailer before Japanese Release!

[Last Trailer] - Youtube

Plus screenshots by Softcore Fantasy


13-11-09 - US/EU Release Date

Finally announced, in this 5 minute long, over-the-top, cheesy video piece.

Friday 13th Announcement

Also announced is that 'My Hands" by Leona Lewis will be XIII's love ballad.


28-09-09 - Brand New Epic Trailer!

[Epic Trailer] - Gametrailers, HD, Dubbed
[Epic Trailer] - YouTube, SD, Subbed


This thread is now Affiliated with L'Cie Haven a Final Fantasy XIII Guild.










Contents
1. Summary of Project and Titles. Latest News.
2. Final Fantasy XIII
3. Final Fantasy Versus XIII
4. Final Fantasy Agito XIII
5. Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII
6. Reserved
7. Reserved
8. Rumours. Links. Fan entries.

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Final Fantasy XIII - [PS3] [Xbox 360]
Release Dates - Japan 17-12-2009 - US/EU 09-03-2010

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Yoshinori Kitase (Producer)
Motomu Toriyama (Director)
Tetsuya Nomura (Character Design)
Nobuo Uematsu (Theme Song Composition)
Masashi Hamazu (Composer)
Eiji Fujii (Movie Director)
Isamu Kamikokuryou (Art Director)

[Official Website]




Trailers
[Trailer One] - YouTube
[Trailer One] - GameTrailers
[Trailer One + Commentary] - YouTube
[XIII Clip] - YouTube
[Extended Trailer] - Veoh.com
[Extended Trailer] - YouTube
[SE Party 08 Trailer]
[DKΣ3713 Trailer]
[Global XIII Trailer] - GiantBomb.com

Full FFXIII Demo at G4TV.com, with Subtitles!
[Full Demo Part 1] - [HD]
[Full Demo Part 2] - [HD]
[Full Demo Part 3] - [HD]
[Full Demo Part 4] - [HD]

New Trailer 28-09-09 NEW!
[Epic Trailer] - Gametrailers, HD, Dubbed
[Epic Trailer] - YouTube, SD, Subbed



Soundtrack
[FFXIII Theme] Played on the official website. [Download] (Right Click)
[Demo opening scene music] Same music from the Trailer. [Download] (Right Click)
['Underworld' Field Music] General field music during the demo.
['Patriotic' Field Music] Musics that plays during Snows cutscene.
[Battle Theme] Typical battle music, also heard in Trailers.
[Boss Battle Theme] New to the demo.
[Purge] A mellow, ambient cutscene track.



World / Story

The plot of Final Fantasy XIII revolves around the fal'Cie, beings created from crystals residing inside them. People who are marked by the fal'Cie for greater purposes are called l'Cie. Each l'Cie has a Focus, a goal the fal'Cie wants him or her to fulfill within a certain amount of time; however, the fal'Cie do not explicitly say what the goal is. l'Cie gain the ability to summon Eidolons (monsters who fight with the l'Cie), but this ability comes with a price: if an l'Cie runs out of time or dies before completing his or her Focus, he or she becomes a monster known as a "Cie Corpse."

Some thirteen centuries ago, a fal'Cie constructed a paradise for humanity: the shell-like city of Cocoon, which floats high above the surface of the world known as Pulse. Both Pulse and Cocoon are maintained by their own fal'Cie. Cocoon's fal'Cie created life forms and machines for its inhabitants to use, and humanity flourished. Over time, the people of Cocoon began to fear for the safety of their world, and they worried that it would be cast down from the sky into the hell that they saw Pulse to be.

In the present day, the wilderness of Pulse has strange effects on people, and the theocratic government of Cocoon, known as Sanctum, quarantines and exiles anyone who has been influenced by Pulse from Cocoon with the help of its mighty army, PSICOM. However, as Snow leads Team Nora in a vain attempt to stop the purging of civilians, the mysterious Lightning fights her way past PSICOM soldiers to find Pulse's fal'Cie with the aid of Sazh. Through a chain of events, these three, along with two exiles, Vanille and Hope, are chosen by the fal'Cie of Pulse against their will to become l'Cie, and with that become enemies of humanity who are tasked with bringing about the downfall of Cocoon.



Playable Characters

"Lightning" Farron

A former soldier of the Cocoon military, Lightning sought the fal'Cie of Pulse only to be made l'Cie much to her dismay. Lightning has long strawberry-blonde hair and is 177 cm tall. She discarded her real name after her parents died so she could protect her sister Serah, only to cause things to worsen between them. For her design, character designer Tetsuya Nomura was asked to create a "female version of Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII". During development, he described her as "not very feminine". Lightning wields a weapon that's a combination of a gun and a sword and can also manipulate gravity with a device on her thumb. In battle, she is agile and uses acrobatic moves. She can also summon the Eidolon Odin to fight by her side in battle, who can assume a horse-like form that she can ride on. Her l'Cie mark is in the center of her chest.


Snow Villiers

Prior to becoming a l'Cie, Snow is the head of Team Nora, a resistance group against Cocoon. He is a big character and is capable of running while carrying two people. He was nicknamed "Mr. 33 cm" by the staff of Final Fantasy XIII as a nod to his shoe size. He uses his fists to take down opponents, focusing on brute force compared to the fast and agile Lightning, and it was revealed that he uses a power that is related to the l'Cie mark on his left forearm in the October 2008 issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. After becoming a l'Cie, Snow gains the power to summon the Eidolon Shiva, which takes the form of two sisters, Nix and Styria, who can combine into a motorcycle form for Snow to ride while toting a large gun.


Oerba Dia Vanille

Vanille is a young girl with red-brown hair worn in pigtails who lives in Pulse. Her weapon is a kind of foldable fishing rod with multiple lines that can be reeled. In a trailer, she is seen captured by the Cocoon army and walking in a funeral procession. In the demo and trailers, she narrates many of the events. She is first seen with the rebel leader Snow when he hands her a gun to defend those being forced to leave Cocoon; she is then seen with Hope, watching as the rebels lose the battle against the soldiers.


Sazh Katzroy

Sazh is a man with an afro whom Lightning knows from her time serving in the military. Sazh wields dual pistols, and his strong point is striking enemies from a distance. His l'Cie mark is at the base of his neck. He has a six-year-old son called Dajh, whose mother died three years prior to the game. Sazh gets separated from his son during the game, and reuniting with his son is his main motivation. He also has a pet baby chocobo that lives inside his afro. Sazh is described as having good judgement and moral discernment. He has a gentle personality and is easily moved to tears, and joins the party early in the game. His Eidolon is an original fire-elemental knight, who can transform into a race car.


Hope Esthiem

Hope is a fourteen-year-old boy with silvery-blonde hair and orange, yellow, and green clothing. He uses boomerangs in battle. He is first seen in the game demo wearing the same Purge attire as Vanille, when his mother offers to help Snow and Team Nora fight off PSICOM. She dies during the battle, and though Snow honours her final request to protect her son, Hope nonetheless hates Snow for his connection to her death. In the game, Hope is seen arguing with Snow about helping the l'Cie. He is later seen with Vanille fighting off a horde of Cie Corpses.


Oerba Yun Fang
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Support Characters

Serah Farron
Being Lightning's younger sister, Serah becomes a l'Cie prior to the other characters, with a mark on her left arm. Serah is romantically involved with Snow (a relationship of which Lightning does not approve), but something happens to her that forces Lightning and Snow to team up to save her. Though she plays a central role in the game, it has not yet been revealed whether or not she will be a playable character.

Team Nora
Gadot, Lebreau and Maqui

Dajh Katzroy


Villains

Jihl Nabaat
An intelligent but cruel woman with knee-length blond hair and glasses who is a Lietenant Colonel of PSICOM. She is first seen in interrogating the captive Vanille in the trailers, seeing the l'Cie as subhuman with no intent other than exterminating them.

Yaag Rosch
An intimidating-looking man with a scar on his forehead and silver hair that is tied back in a ponytail. Rosch is Nabaat's right-hand man in PSICOM and Lightning's former superior. Unlike Jihl, Rosch has begun to question his order from the Holy Government though he feels he must follow his orders for the sake of its people.



Battle System

The concept for Final Fantasy XIII's battle system is to maintain the strategic nature of command-based battles. The system stemmed from a desire to create battles similar to those found in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Like those in Final Fantasy XII, enemies are integrated into the world environment. Yet unlike Final Fantasy XII battles do not take place in the same "dimension", but rather a short flash transports players to a new battle screen, separate from the main playing world. The Active Time Battle (ATB) system will return, but it works differently from its predecessors. Users will be able to chain large numbers of commands together in order to achieve attack bonuses.
The Final Fantasy XIII battle system.

The first battle system was shown during the E3 2006, but it was only a prototype. A new interface was shown recently by Square Enix in various Japanese magazines and trailers (depicted in the image adjacent). In battle, the player can only control one character at a time out of a party of up to three.

Multiple commands can be stacked into slots per turn and released at the same time to form a combo. The number of command slots increases as the characters grow in strength. These commands include series staples such as Attack, Fire, Blizzard and Cure, as well as new ones such as Ruin, Ruinaga, and Radial Strike. The difference between XIII's battle system and the ATB gauge is that these commands can still be placed in the slots even though the bar has run out, and the actions will be executed once the required slots are filled up. This, however, affects the chain combo hits as the combo has been interrupted. The game does not make use of MP but introduces "cost points" for each command, which determine how many times the commands can be used per turn. Because magic cannot be used outside of battle, the HP of the party is completely restored after each battle.

A "break state" is one of the new features of the Final Fantasy XIII battle system. The breaks refer to the times an enemy enters a state of non-retaliation. This occurs when a chain combo has been maintained for a certain period of time on an enemy. When a high level combo has been achieved, the enemy will glow red and enter this state, during which the player will be able to inflict high amounts of damage. The chain bar will gradually deplete during this period; when it becomes empty, the break state ends.

A new option in battle was revealed during Gamescom 2009 called "Paradigm Shift" (called "Optima Change" in Japan). Using this option, player can switch party members' roles during battle. For example, a character can be switched to use defensive or offensive tactics as the battle dictates.

The player is able to view the HP and name of the enemy before engaging it in battle. When engaging an enemy, the camera moves to another position and the battle menu appears, making the battle transitions nearly seamless. The after-battle victory screen in XIII holds information such as the time it took to finish the battle, the highest number of combos executed, the number of break attacks and the quality of battle which is determined by a ranking of one to five stars.



Eidolons

The classic summoned creatures called Eidolons (as they were in Final Fantasy IV DS and Final Fantasy IX) will return in Final Fantasy XIII. Shiva, Carbuncle, Ifrit, Siren, and Odin appeared in shown footage. Producer Yoshinori Kitase has confirmed that Bahamut will also appear in the game. When summoned, the Eidolons stay in battle while the characters accompanying the summoner leaves the party. There is also a new feature called "Gestalt Mode", which when activated joins the summoned and its summoner somehow. This changes the pace of the combat significantly. Each character will possess only one Eidolon that is summoned from a crystal that sprouts from the character's mark of l'Cie. It has been recently revealed that the summons will play a major role in the game's storyline as well, much like Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy X.


Shiva
Shiva will take the form of a sister pair with individual names of Styria and Nix who can be called by Snow.
In Gestalt mode they transform into a Motorcycle and Snow equips a firearm.


Odin
Odin accompanies Lightning as a massive warrior with a large blade.
In Gestalt mode he transforms into his steed Sleipnir and Lightning wields his blade as two separate blades.


Brynhilde


Bahamut


Alexander


Ifrit

Carbuncle

Siren

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII - [PS3]

Tetsuya Nomura (Director, Character Design)
Takeshi Nozue (Movie Director)
Yoko Shimomura (Composer)
Shinji Hashimoto (Producer)

[Official Website]


Images

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Trailers
[Trailer One] - YouTube
[Trailer One] - GameTrailers
[Extended Trailer] - Veoh.com
[Extended Trailer] - YouTube
[DKΣ3713 Trailer] - Veoh.com
[Cutscene] - NEW! (Taken down by Square)


Soundtrack
[Somnus] Played in the earlier trailers


World
A long cold war has been taking place, revolving around crystals. In the Jump Festa trailer, while the male protagonist is siting in the back seat of a car, he’s listening to a news broadcast on the radio. It’s announced over the radio how two countries have come to a treaty about peaceful use of crystals.
There is a Kingdom where the last Crystal in the world is held. This Kingdom is very modern and is so advanced that civilization there is isolated from the Outside World. This City is protected by the Magic Order.
A group, from the Outside World, has begun to invade the city and this is where the fight for the last crystal begins.

Characters
Name: Noctis

The protagonist of Final Fantasy Versus 13 is the heir to the throne of his country. His royal family’s kingdom has protected the family crystals for generations. His country, which has recently come under attack, has the last crystal in the world.
Although he wears normal, modern day clothing, he works to protect the family crystals from creatures that come from another world.

Name: Unknown

A male character with blond hair, dressed in a white shirt and a grey vest. In the TGS 07 trailer he seemed to smile alot and be allied with Noctis. They take a car trip together out of the city into desert wasteland. His weapon is a short gun.

Name: Stella

A female character with long blond hair, dressed in a skirt. In the TGS 07 trailer, she is seen waiting for Noctis, but when he arrives she points her sword towards him.

Name: Unknown
[Picture Pending]
A male character with a scar and facial hair, seems to be allied with Noctis. They take a car trip together out of the city into desert wasteland. His weapon is a short gun.

Name: Unknown
[Picture Pending]
A male character with glasses, seems to be allied with Noctis. They take a car trip together out of the city into desert wasteland. His weapon is a short gun.

Name: Unknown
[Picture Pending]
A male character seated at the head of the table in the large hall. From his sour expression he's assumed to be an enemy.


Battle System
Not much is known about the Final Fantasy Versus XIII battle system. However The game will be an action RPG, and it will most likely be a similar style to the Kingdom Hearts Series since it is made by the same team.
There will be familliar FF weapons used in the game, such as classic Swords and Modern Guns. From the screens shown from the E3 2006 trailer, you can see that there is going to be magic used, since the main character appears to be levetating many swords in the air.
During battle the main character’s appearance will change. When in battle his eyes will turn red. It’s possible that his eyes will change to other colours as well, such as green. When he quickly moves from one place to another (possibly warping) his hair flashes white.
Weapons will have different ways of attacking enemies. Some of the weapons will even be used as shields. Some kind of customization elements can also be made to the weapons. As the game progresses the main character will have more and more weapons available to him.
One of the abilities that the Main Character can use is he can warp to wherever his weapons are thrown.

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Final Fantasy Agito XIII - [PSP]

Hajime Tabata (Director)
Tetsuya Nomura (Character Design)
Yusuke Naora (Art Director)
Takeharu Ishimoto (Composer)
Yukimasa Itou (Producer)

[Official Website]


Images

» Pending Refurbishment «


Trailers

[Trailer One]
[Trailer Two] NEW!


World
Very little is known.
It seems to be set in some kind of 'Magic School', maybe something like VIII's Garden.
Outside of that school there's implications of something barren or sinister.

Characters
Unknown > This blonde haired boy appears to be the main character of Final Fantasy Agito XIII.
-He uses playing cards as his weapon, which implies that the game will most likely have a similar battle system as KH:CoM.

Battle System
Unknown. Although it's speculated there could be some form of card game.

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Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII - [N/A]

Registered Trademark


Images
None.

Trailers
None.

World
From the name Haeresis, meaning 'Heresies', there is a belief that this title will be based around the same sort of concepts as Final Fantasy X, a controversial religion. So could Haeresis XIII be about a group uprising against a set religion to try and restore the right way, or is it that you yourself are replacing a controversial religion with an even more controversial religion?

Characters
Unknown.

Battle System
Unknown.

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Reserved for a possible fifth instalment. - [N/A]

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Reserved for a possible sixth instalment. - [N/A]

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Links
http://www.ff-xiii.net/
http://www.ffxiii.com/
http://www.ff13-europe.com/
http://www.ffxiiinet.com/
http://finalfantasyversusxiii.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIII
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/objects/826/826843.html
http://www.ffinsider.net/final-fantasy-13/final-fantasy-13.php





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