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Okay, This Final Fantasy XIII Story Recap Is Pretty Cute

If you need a catch-up before Lightning Returns, this is a pretty good place to start.

Jan. 29 2014

Posted by: Alex

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Well, thank you very much, now i have to replay FFVI. Awesome video BTW!!

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Doesn't this trailer just kind of reinforce how the SNES / PS1 era Final Fantasies were all much better than the shit they've been releasing for the last 8 years?

I say they ditch Lightning once and for all and give us Final Fantasy 6 and 7 remakes worth our time. :)

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@ossuary said:

Doesn't this trailer just kind of reinforce how the SNES / PS1 era Final Fantasies were all much better than the shit they've been releasing for the last 8 years?

I say they ditch Lightning once and for all and give us Final Fantasy 6 and 7 remakes worth our time. :)

No, infact it shows how tinted your glasses are, the only diffrence between this recap and FFXIII is the visuals. the story is the same.

Final Fantasy 7 was just as dumb, it started out the exact same way on a train fighting dudes, with a resistance. Blowing up a thing and making it fall.

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I thought the character names in XIII were dorky, but when presented this way they seem fine. Snow. Lightning, Fang...maybe being Chibi gives it license to be silly, cute or nonsensical.

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Aww, that was really cute.

I didn't realize I was at the very end of the first game when I stopped playing it, haha.

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Well. I'll tell you this much - even after watching this I still don't understand a thing that happened in FF13. I think I'll just pick up FF4 for the DS instead and wait for the FF6 3DS port that won't happen.

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The number of anime avatar icons in this comment section frightens me.

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Edited By likwidboy

IMO the reason this trailer seems better than the XIII series games themselves is the lack of voice acting. The dialogue in FFXIII was terrifyingly bad. Despite the voice over cast doing their best, it was just embarrassing. Once you remove the cringeworthy element of terrible dialogue, you read the text like reading a book - the characters dialogue has as much credibility as you want it to because it's all in your imagination. 16bit era FF had some story lines that where totally bananas, but it just didn't seem to matter that much.

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Edited By orange_pork

I remember literally every aspect of FF13-2's story except for the part where there are two Cocoons. Also I don't remember Serah dying. Basically the ending, I guess. Though I know I've beaten it twice because I have a platinum trophy for it. And my pet is Lightning somehow? I don't remember that either.

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Holy shit this is awesome! Just the opening with the 8-bit sounding theme made me smile.