Final Fantasy XIII: Is Lightning a Female Cloud Strife?

iamtehpwn - 126 days 7 hours ago

and never played the original FFVII.

Cloud was a total mercenary who hauled ass at all costs.
He had a big breasted companion who he played "hard to get" with.
And only wanted cold hard cash for his work, and just happened to have good hair while doing it.

Well. At least until Aerith Died, and the mind Control, and the figuring out he wasn't really him. =\

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heroicjanitor - 126 days 3 hours ago

I expect Lightning to hit people when they do something stupid, for comic effect and she'll do it with her eyes closed acting like he is an idiot. For the first half anyway, then she'll realise she likes him and he will sacrifice himself to save her with a smile on his face and the rest of the game will be fighting with his memory.

Or it will turn out she has cancer and is attacking the city to get chemo.

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CaptainKratos - 125 days 21 hours ago

FAAAK you ruined it!!!!for me.

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MAiKU - 125 days 16 hours ago

well unfortunately this is true. This stuff is REALLY OLD like around the time the second trailer was released back when we thought the game would be released at this time, so i dunno why there is another article about it now.

He stated in a famitsu interview that he was told to try to make a female lead character with characteristics similar to cloud's personality.

But of course the two characters WILL be totally different. Cloud's attributes were only Tetsuya's basis for the character design and keep in mind lightning is like the final result of many tried character designs.

I'm pretty sure you could find his interview statements somewhere on ffinsider or khinsider.... it was the mag where he was asked to draw the mascot guy (wolf like dude).

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lordgodalming - 125 days 15 hours ago

The article's first paragraph says it all. Nomura has said before that Lightning is at least partially based on Cloud. This is not surprising, as FFVII is by far the most famous FF with the most spinoffs, etc. Not sure how this topic is "perplexing" if Nomura himself has said it's true. Mystery solved!

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qface64 - 125 days 15 hours ago

nah i played the original many times i have it on my psp still looking for an original copy that isn't over priced
i have had my hands on all of the FF7 compilations and now im kinda kinda bored with the FF7 universe

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Killjoy3000 - 125 days 14 hours ago

For me she definately seems to be one of the more enticing leads in a FF game. I think she will be great, especially when you consider the direction they're going in with this protagonist.

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zlatko - 125 days 7 hours ago

*shrug* She seems more like a female version of Squall to me. Gunblade + the art style just fits the FF8 vibe for me.

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Cheeseknight28 - 125 days 7 hours ago

I agree. I never cared for Cloud, Zack was the better FF7 hero.

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CaptainKratos - 125 days 6 hours ago

j/k i passed this game while i was in the womb.lol.

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TheReaper42 - 125 days 1 hour ago

emo? ROFL. Far from it. Cloud and Sephiroth rocked the Final Fantasy world. Before them it was Cecil the dark knight who rocked it. If you do not understand how the storyline builds a char, then your IQ is pretty low. A heartless mercenary who killed for money, then started to love someone, then got confused with his past and who he is... uh yeah EMO?.. idiot. Americans look at his hair and automatically assume it's an EMO hair cut. Well NEWS FLASH, that's the hair of asian pop culture, not your typical emo American hair do. What you're gonna called the prince in FFXIII Versus emo too? I bet you will.

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MAiKU - 125 days 16 hours ago

There is no dedicated PSP version. Once a PSone title hits the PSN store it is usable by both ps3 and psp gaming systems.

Or did you mean the digital version of the game has yet to hit the psn store for your region?

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HarukoHex - 125 days 8 hours ago

you can also just use a EMU on the psp with a ISO file. >.> thats how i played mine before it hit the market.

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Wolfmoonstrike - 125 days 9 hours ago

This is exactly what they did.

"Lightning is the main character of Final Fantasy XIII.

She is an independant and strong-willed female hero who wields a weapon similar to the gunblade from Final Fantasy VIII. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura describes her as 'not very feminine', and says that he was asked to create a 'female version of Cloud' when designing her.

On her shoulder are bars, similar to something you may see on an army officer's shoulder etc. This points towards possibly her rank and social status.

Her name, Lightning, could well be a nickname or codename, yet could be her real name as many character in the previous titles also bare weather-related names.

In addition to being a skilled fighter, she also has power over gravity and time-based magic."

http://boardsus.playstation...

There were a couple other sources stating this but I'm to lazy to look. Honestly I think Squall is way cooler than Cloud but whatever.

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