Though many prefer FFXIII's English theme song to be sung by a "domestic" artiste since Square Enix is a "domestic" company, who's there to say that there're no foreign efforts in the making of FFXIII. I'm sure "domestic" FFXIII makers do rely on some forms of foreign assistance here and there. Although I can't shake off the thought of engaging the vocals of Leona Lewis was much market-oriented, we'll see how the end quality of the game goes.

I'm all for game theme songs related to the story. Since it's virtually impossible for someone outside Square Enix to know the entire story of FFXIII in detail before the release date, it's wise to not make premature judgement. For that, I paid extra attention to the lyrics of both "Kimi ga Iru Kara" and "My Hands". Well, they both have potential. At least they don't have pop-ish cheesy connotations and such.

Hence, you simply can't satisfy everyone.

WHAT?!! 3RD SEPTEMBER 2010?!! WHAT THE F... Oh wait...

From the trailers/demo it looks like a remake of FF VII/VIII/IX/X clumped together with the CAMPIEST anime scenes ever. And the villain looks like she was Vayne's(XII) sister.

You mean... I have to buy an XBOX 360/PS3 for THIS!? W..T..F..!?

PS2 Undubbed versions FTW! =D

And that's not piracy, cause you can't get it any other way ;P

We are starting with this campaign because Leona Lewis's "My Hands" has nothing to do with FINAL FANTASY.

Sayuri Sugawara's "Kimi ga iru kara" it's tied with the FFXIII story and it's composed by Masashi Hamauzu (same composer of the BSO of FFXIII).

"Kimi ga iru kara" it's a great song both in lyrics and music in the tradition of FF theme songs.

Noth Americans & Europeans deserves same treatment like Japaneses, we want Japanese audio track too and "Kimi ga iru kara" like the only FFXIII theme song WORLDWIDE.

Please SUPPORT SAYURI SUGAWARA
Please SUPPORT "Kimi ga iru kara".

Thanks.

Snow Villiers
supportsayurisugawara@hotmail.com

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We have now an online petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/SSFTSSC/petition.html

And a Facebook group:
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BTW both songs suck... I prefer the orchestral oldies of FF

The issue I have is that the songs are very... sappy, which leads me to believe that FFXIII will be going the road of a jdrama like FFX or some kind of waffy life lesson. Both options scream "bad writing" in my opinion.

I rather liked FFXII's story (minus Vaan, who was pretty damn needless), though I was admittedly annoyed that the game just sort of played itself while I watched. ~_~

The opening song sets up the "atmosphere" of the game, IMO. The schools I went never offered japanese classes so I never got the opportunity like everyone else.

And for one I am not whining about it that much, it's a matter of expressing my opinion.

I think you need to stick your hothead in cold water.

Wait, huh?

Crisis Core was even worse, since they rewrote a lot of the dialogue to suit timing better (Angeal saying he never used the Buster Sword because he was too poor to let anything happen to it got changed to "because I'm cheap;" Genesis went from reading lines of theatrical prose to a fucking shitty-ass poet).

No. Square Enix does TERRIBLE fucking dubs and I'm not holding my breath for FFXIII.

"Someone is going to launch a game that fanboys across the world is going to gob up? Quick, let's get my singer to be the one with your english-version theme song so that everyone of those fanboys will listen to it and possibly want to hear more making it the ultimate publicity stunt to jumpstart this girl's career!"

That's what it looks like to me.

I hate it when people don't know the language, or the culture for that matter outside of video games and ANIME, yet INSIST they know what's better for the rest of the world's viewing and playing pleasure.

FACT OF THE MATTER IS,
ANY TALENTLESS HACK J-POP ARTIST COULD BE CHOSEN FOR THIS THEME AND YOU WOULD STILL SAY,
"I don't think the english version fits lolololkawaiidesuthatsjustmene"
Stop pretending you give two shits about "THIS" version of the song versus the fact its fucking JAPANESE.

Anyway, both are somewhat generic, though My Hands gives me more emotion, though I can see why the wapa-err, "true" FF fans would be whining(bitching) over this problem.

Honestly, it is ONLY AN OPENING THEME SONG. How does a theme song you will hear maybe at most 4 times change how you feel about a game.

Also, how many times has SE actually used the Japanese theme song with an NA release. And this means the song in JAPANESE. Not an English version done by the artist of the japanese version.

That said, it would have probably caused less backlash if they used the same singer for JP/Int versions, but people still probably would've whined.

Also, when a game company listens to every complaint by every single person, they've just failed.

Finally, how many here crying for the japanese song are fluent in japanese. I passed JLPT level 2(which is ~middle school or so :< ) and I still enjoy the english version better.

Sigh. tl;dr Get some cheese for your whine.

Square-Enix should have just given a choice to have english dub or japanese dub with english subtitles. Why can't SE listen to our demands?? -__-