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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
- Thread starter Kagari
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Probably just because the music they requested for this game was for particular elements already. Also the XIII OST is of a very high caliber, the game is a sequel, and it had short development time. It's just more conventional to do it this way, and everything is getting used anyways.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
One of the best songs in FFXIII... how often does it play in FFXIII-2 o.o?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
How long/often it plays depends on your proficiency for a certain task.
It plays when
you're doing those accursed clock puzzles that people spend a long time on!
Yeah, during some cutscenes. It's Serah's theme without the vocals, after all.Perfo said:
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe the vocal-less version is also the title screen music.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Oh oops, I'll clarify. Yeah, the title screen music is used in a few cutscenes... some of which involve Serah being the conversation starter (hence why I tried to compare it with her actual vocal theme, but I guess it didn't come across that way).
heard it once i think in ff13-2
i was happy to suddenly hear the boss battle music from ff13 in one of the battles in ff13-2 ( that giant turtle in gran pulse )
Ahh, okay. I figured it was something like that.
I wonder how the T-shirt looks...probably wont fit, but still.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
StoppedInTracks
Member
Sup dudes, any ETA on the demo availability today? How many hours left? It's not on JPN/ EU/ US PSN yet.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Not from what I read :/
Electivirus
Member
I can never see myself getting tired of that track. /famouslastwords
Trent Strong
Banned
Blaze Edge is best edge.
Seraphinianus
Banned
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I dream of one day in which they start to translate in english these books >.<'
Heh i agree with you on that. I bought all kind of Ultimania books but didn't manage to understand them cause it's in Japanese. I am currently learning Japanese though!
As for the graphics, I am sure one day we will get to play in the kind of graphics that's shown on the cover of the Ultimania, maybe 2 more generations of gaming? Or the next gen? One can hope
Regarding the kichu and omega, as mentioned, kichu is probably the strongest ATK monster in the game even withou doing the abilities. Add in that and some smart planning and you can easily make a kichu that does 10,000 to 20,000 damage in one hit, even on monsters that haven't been broken. The flipside is you can only get one in the game so if you screw up your growth and/or ability fusions you are SOL.
Regarding Omega, he is an ATK as well but apparently he is initially slow. The thing going around the jp boards is making an aspir omega, basically giving him aspir abilities as well as ATB abilities which basically can turn him into a non stop laser shooting machine that puts omega in the same level as kichu. Only problem is the materials and monsters needed for the build is somewhat time consuming.
That leads to probably the downside of FF13-2, by the time you can build this up there is nothing left to do in the game. And I again say the SE needs to speed up the dlc because I want to play it more, because time travel is fun!
Regarding Omega, he is an ATK as well but apparently he is initially slow. The thing going around the jp boards is making an aspir omega, basically giving him aspir abilities as well as ATB abilities which basically can turn him into a non stop laser shooting machine that puts omega in the same level as kichu. Only problem is the materials and monsters needed for the build is somewhat time consuming.
That leads to probably the downside of FF13-2, by the time you can build this up there is nothing left to do in the game. And I again say the SE needs to speed up the dlc because I want to play it more, because time travel is fun!
RPGCrazied
Member
Cant wait to see if the game is still sub-hd on 360
I thought it was already confirmed that it wasn't. There was a comparison between the two Japanese versions.
RPGCrazied
Member
robot
Member
I actually prefer not to be distracted by achievements in RPGs so am gonna go with the PS3 version (I dont pay much mind to trophys).
Plus I'd rather have XIII and XIII-2 for the same system.
Is this game so full of content it needs two books?
Plus I'm sure an Omega Ultimania will show up after all the DLC are released :/
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Deleted member 20920
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FFXIII had 2 books plus Omega too. There's definitely more stuff to instruct and guide than 13.
Nice covers. I'll probably forgo the Crystal Ed and get the N.A. LTD Ed instead and use the money for the Ultimanias.
EDIT: Some number of pages comparison to gauge possible amount of content
Scenario Ultimanias
FFXII: 528 pages
FFXIII: 512 pages
FFXIII-2:496 pages
Battle Ultimanias
FFXII: 592 pages
FFXIII: 544 pages
FFXIII-2: 704 pages
jimmypython
Member
mainline FFs have been having two Ultimania books since FFX.......
RPGCrazied
Member
So there isn't any costumes at all in the game? For having a costume system, they really dropped the ball. I really can't believe they are going to make them DLC. But we have only seen 2 for Noel and Serah so far.
Out of the box? Nope.
Honestly the worst thing is in part of the game Serah wears her FF13 outfit, it's in the game, it's completely usable... and yet you never actually get it except for the little part of the game where she's required to wear it. Found that really annoying seen as I like her old one better, would it have killed them to give you the option seen as it's in the game already? It's not like it would've required any extra work. So you just have a 'costumes' section in the menu taunting you throughout the game.
RPGCrazied
Member
Don't forget the 4 disc soundtrack. Only reason I'm going for it.
I wouldn't have any hesitations if the art book was bigger. I'm just not much of an OST type of person.
Regarding save files from 13, they're not too significant right? Googling around, it doesn't sound like much unless something has changed since then.
Why bother? It's already been done enough for the JP release.
The Praiseworthy
Member
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Battle & Scenario Ultimania Books.
Oh wow!!!
..... And why they couldn't use these for the Box cover ??
Same here. Art books are nice and all, but for me OSTs have more value.
What's the demo like, that was set up for today? I'm at work and can't browse the extent of the thread to see impressions.
Barely impressions so far, since most people are still waiting for its release (psn).
i really like the new xbox360 dashboard or whatever they call but damn it took me 6 minutes to get to the demos section
downloading the demo just to see SE screwing this up and give people a bad part of the game
here's a video of the new DLC clothes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-E7KK5nbmo
downloading the demo just to see SE screwing this up and give people a bad part of the game
here's a video of the new DLC clothes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-E7KK5nbmo
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
That's kind of unfortunate in terms of building up your monsters and party but having nothing really to fight... until DLC I guess.
Thanks for the Omega info. I heard about the Aspir abilities, but I didn't know how useful they were. Giving him ATB abilities makes sense. It's just too bad that it's a late bloomer, and by the time you get it, it's kind of rendered useless/time-consuming to create a proper build by an overpowered Kichu + Noel/Serah playing support/Blaster.
I had no idea you only got one Kichu in the game. :O
No wonder people are looking for good builds on JP sites now.
I love this cover. The art is really nice.
Also, it finally includes Noel who is a pretty decent character.
RPGCrazied
Member
I hope those costumes are available day 1. I like that red one Noel gets, I think its better then his starter clothes.