Final Fantasy XIII-2 Ultimania Omega Developer Interview

Nova Crystallis: Following our report from the other day hinting at a possible sequel to Final Fantasy XIII-2, the rest of the interview contained within the game’s Ultimania Omega has surfaced.

Thanks to FF-Reunion and SQEX_Gal, we can now paint a bigger picture of Lightning’s story, and why it probably isn’t over yet according to staff members Yoshinori Kitase, Motomu Toriyama and Daisuke Watanabe.

[iamlegend9999]

I can not wait for final fantasy Xlll-3. That is a day one purchase right there.

[Summons75]

someone clearly didn't watch the secret ending

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

You mean the one hinting at a 13-3. Both the DLC secret ending and the regular secret ending in the game basically say there is going to be a third one

[Lovable]

@Summons75
LOL it was clear as day that there will be a 3rd installment in the series of FF 13. Did you even watch the same ending?

[Tommy334]

ff7

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[Capt-FuzzyPants]

What?

[PshycoNinja]

Do we really need another one..... really? They need to send Toriyama back to the drawing board and give Kitase and Nomura more creative control over the franchise. The people who made Final Fantasy truly great games are Sakaguchi, Kitase and Nomura. Toriyama only started getting creative control around the time Sakaguchi left Square. Which was a little before X released.

Am I the only one seeing the trend here.

[NeXXXuS]

Don't forget Nobuo Uematsu and his amazing original scores. :)

[-Gespenst-]

"Personally, I’d try to continue the paradox endings like Serah and Snow setting out to find the 13 crystals in “The Couple’s Departure” or “Control The Pudding With Pudding” where Serah and Noel take the form of monsters."

It's ideas like this which necessitate giving Toriyama less creative control.

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

Yeah I don't think anyone wants to see that. He had to have been joking right?

[Lucretia]

game was so good, the cliff hanger ending def was one of the best ff endings imo. greeeat game. needs a part 3

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

Doesn't top 10 or Crisis Core though. Doesn't even go any where close to those endings.

[NeXXXuS]

I think most of us that played Final Fantasy VII and then Crisis Core knew what was going to happen, but still an amazing and sad ending indeed.

[Yangus]

I wait FFXIII-3 FFXIII-2 not bad..game.

[Elvis]

I also can't wait for FF Xlll-3, it's going to be awesome.

[Raka]

why they keep bothering with that trash
its well know that 13 is the worse ff of the franchise along ffx-2

nobody gives a damn

[Raka]

you r right elvis its not a bad game its a pure trash

[360GamerFG]

I think it would be hilarious if instead of XIII-3 they made XIII-2-II. Ha ha ha, thats final fantasy part two of part two of part thirteen. EPIC.

[VsAssassin]

I lol'd!

[NeXXXuS]

INCEPTION!

[VsAssassin]

Judging by the majority of posters here wanting a 3rd game in the FF13 series, I say SE's tactic, albeit a cheap one, works. The incompleteness of the ending that is FFXIII-2 left most of the posters here to want FFXIII-3. This gives SE all the more reason to stunt vs13 and release an unwanted game nobody cared about in the first place.

13-3? Seriously, SE?

[iamlegend9999]

Yeah no one wants it and it had about 2 million sales each. That sounds about right.

[VsAssassin]

Well I guess you're right. It was wanted, not because FFXIII was as good as FFX, but because fans wanted FFXIII done right. FFXIII-2 had a checklist of missteps from FFXIII and checked them all out.

I'm not gonna argue with sales here, but if we go by that, and if I also base my judgment on sales and company shares, I think SE isn't doing very well compared to their performance in the last generation.

SE, just give us what we 'want' in the form of FFvs13, and continue with FFXIII-3 when vs13 is released.

[goldwyncq]

They must make FFXIII-3 now.

As much as people hate this game, they can't just leave the story unfinished.

[Killman]

I LAUGH at the people saying "Oh please SE, make FF13-3! We want the story finished!" That is exactly what they want you to say. The cliff-hanger in 13-2 is a perfect cash grab tactic.

Also, FF13-2's story was mostly garbage. It started good, but the whole time traveling concept wore itself out quickly, not to mention the extremely typical 'Yeah! We can do it!' characters.

[VsAssassin]

Some things are nice in FFXIII-2, like throwing the moogle to access certain areas and a few awesome distractions. However, when a game sports too many DLCs (I'm looking at you mini-game DLCs!), that's when you know something is off.

[rhap]

I can't believe there are people saying the story is good when you had games in the franchise like Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy Tactics with all the lore, characters, backgrounds, treachery and deceiving.

Sad to see how dumb this series has become. Even the simple concept implemented in FFIV and V are much more enjoyable than the crap we saw on FFXIII.