Games By James Plafke Jan. 29, 2014 6:28 pm
In preparation for the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII — the final entry in the*FFXIII trilogy — Square Enix has created an awesome video recapping the stories of the two*FFXIII games leading up to this final installment. The video retells the key moments from both games, but reimagined as a 16-bit SNES game, in the vein of*Final Fantasy*IV*through*VI.
The video, seen below, is quite pretty, translating the two games’ modern-day graphics and audio into those of the SNES glory days. Unfortunately, yes, the retrospective tells the story of the*Final Fantasy XIII*– the worst main*Final Fantasy game*ever made.
It’s a shame Square is putting so much effort into its worst*Final Fantasy, and it’s even more of a shame that such a well-made video is yet more effort put into a series that kicked off Square’s slow, grueling decline. However, the video is just so well-done that even*characters obnoxiously named Lightning, Snow, Hope, Fang, and Vanille can’t ruin it.
If you for some reason really want to play*Lightning Returns but not the first two games in the trilogy, the above recap is a much better way to catch up than sitting through*Final Fantasy XIII’s Tube World*where, with a rubber band strapped around the controller’s analog stick, you can automate the majority of the game.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be one of the PlayStation 3′s last big games before the development of big-name titles shifts exclusively to the PS4. Among the other few reasons you’ll still need to keep your PS3 sitting under the television just a little longer,*The Last of Us: Left Behind*and*Persona 5*are also calling the PS3 home.
Perhaps after*Lightning Returns is over and done with, Square Enix will add that game’s story into the above video so we can enjoy the*FFXIII series the only way possible — by not playing it.
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The video, seen below, is quite pretty, translating the two games’ modern-day graphics and audio into those of the SNES glory days. Unfortunately, yes, the retrospective tells the story of the*Final Fantasy XIII*– the worst main*Final Fantasy game*ever made.
It’s a shame Square is putting so much effort into its worst*Final Fantasy, and it’s even more of a shame that such a well-made video is yet more effort put into a series that kicked off Square’s slow, grueling decline. However, the video is just so well-done that even*characters obnoxiously named Lightning, Snow, Hope, Fang, and Vanille can’t ruin it.
If you for some reason really want to play*Lightning Returns but not the first two games in the trilogy, the above recap is a much better way to catch up than sitting through*Final Fantasy XIII’s Tube World*where, with a rubber band strapped around the controller’s analog stick, you can automate the majority of the game.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be one of the PlayStation 3′s last big games before the development of big-name titles shifts exclusively to the PS4. Among the other few reasons you’ll still need to keep your PS3 sitting under the television just a little longer,*The Last of Us: Left Behind*and*Persona 5*are also calling the PS3 home.
Perhaps after*Lightning Returns is over and done with, Square Enix will add that game’s story into the above video so we can enjoy the*FFXIII series the only way possible — by not playing it.
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