Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIII-2 as being due for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2011.
The director has been announced as Motomu Toriyama – the same man who said towns were too much work for Final Fantasy XIII to bother with, and the driving force behind that game’s notorious “story-centric” linearity.
However, in his previous comments he did promise “those elements” would be present in the next game in the series, so there may be hope for corridor sceptics yet.
Online the reaction has been derisive – few seem particularly enthused by the prospect of a sequel to the much maligned XIII.
Also announced were a bevy of insignificant handheld RPGs from the usual franchises and some (graphically) impressive footage of “PS3 exclusive” Final Fantasy Versus XIII:
i dont understand why everyone says XIII was a bad game, i thought it was great. It was cinematic and the combat was more strategic than ANY other FF game. RPG’s are all about strategy, and you shouldn’t be able to beat a battle solely by hammering on the attack button (im looking at you FF1 remake). The story was great if a little confusing, but its your own fault if you dont understand it. It isnt the game’s fault you and your dumb ass cant read the in-game encyclopedia.
Is that Lightning!? Well, it’s cool that they’re doing more for the XIII world and all…but don’t they have a lot on their plate already? What about that other XIII game?
I’d rather play free-to-play korean MMOs with cash items rather than any Final Fantasy ever existed.
FFXIII is the best Final Fantasy of the series by far.
FFVII is a piece of s♥♥t.
And so are western games.
Now that’s a real nice attempt at one of those so-called “Epic trolls”. Seriously.
By the way Arte, the vids are down. I saw the XIII-2 teaser up on Gametrailers, maybe you’d like to use that one.
If they don’t want people seeing their own promotional material, who am I to argue?
I’m sold