Change Your Leader in FINAL FANTASY XIII-2

Or so this screenshot will have you believe.

Hidden deep within the newly released TGS trailer, sharp detectives have found quite possibly an important new element to the battle system: Leader Change.
If you check out this image here, you’ll see it clearly says so in katakana in the command select menu

(The last command in the 2nd screenshot).

[fluffydelusions]

Good, because I hated having to use certain characters as leaders e.g. Hope

[Anderson8]

my hatred for that character knows no bounds..

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Same here i hated Hope with a passion.

[iamtehpwn]

I'll take the disagree hit, and Say Hope was actually one of the better characters in Final Fantasy XIII.

If you used him combat properly, he actually was quite good magic (Strongest Mage in the game) and eventually learned haste and other powerful enhacement spells.

As far as his part of the plot goes, he actually makes the story interesting with anger and hatred toward Snow. For anyone who says he was a "Whiny" character, he was a 14 year old who saw his mother get killed and was threatened by a fate worse than Death.

I expect you guys wanted him to be like "LOL. It's okay. I'm a kid, my mom dying in front of me and me being hunted down by the government and I'll turn into a Monster if I don't destroy my home world I ain't even mad"

[baker_boi]

If you read between the lines of his character and how he became to change Hope was a weakling little punk.

He should have stood up and been a man, but he let his mother take that gun and die instead of fighting himself.

He gained his fate of "becoming a monster" because he wanted to throw the blame of his own weakness onto some one else. Not only that, but to MURDER that person.

He was whiny and held no responsibility. He eventually acknowledges his own weakness and stops blaming some one else for it and starts to change.

The thing that made him annoying is that, HE IS A CHILD and handled his problems in the fashion.

Regardless of how the player uses him in combat, it doesn't change his character.

[TheTwelve]

I used Hope ONLY because he had my favorite summon of all, Holy Alexander. Outside of that he was corny, useless brat.

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[Simon_Brezhnev]

We didnt want him to be "LOL." Hope is annoying as hell no matter how you try to sugarcoat it. All he did was whine and want revenge. The story was so predictable even if the game story is predictable. They should had executed the story good. Its a reason this game has the most hate in all FF series.

[Optical_Matrix]

Had me squinting for a second then I saw it in the second screenshot. Bottom menu selection. That'll make fights a lot more tactical. FFXIII-2 is definitely ticking the right boxes so far.

[just_sayin]

I hope this means its not game over if the leader falls i hated that in 13

@Mr Space
I'm no 13 lover i dislike it with everyone, but i'll give 13-2 its chance just like i did with 10-2

[MrSpace]

Wow FF13 lovers are really eating this crap up aren't they....

Throw in some minor improvments, over exgerate them, people will think they are listening to the fans and get tricked into buying the sequel only to end up disapointed again.

Why Square....why make make a sequel to crap FF game. Why not make a new main FF title so we can ALL enjoy it not just the FF13 lovers.....I mean really out of the majority of people who hated FF13 who is going to buy the sequel...you'd be lost in the story for starters.

Honestly a few bits of bobs here and there.....and people think Sqaure are back on track. Trust me they are over exgerating these "improvments" to trick you into buying the game again.

Come on guys just for Versus......if people buy this then we'll get a third game and it dosen't matter if most of them buyers are dissapointed for the second time...Square will count it as a happy sale.

[Godmars290]

Because they were already making it. XIII wasn't done, but XIII-2 was already in production.

[WhiteLightning]

I don't think they were...F13-2 was never planned.

Square had plans to make the Fabula Nova Crystallis series which consisted of FF13, FF13 Versus and FF Agito 13.

FF13-2 came after FF13 because it didn't do well as they had hoped, it got a mixed reception and since they had left over content they didn't want it to waste so they made it into a sequel. It messed up their plans for this "Crystal series"

Why do you think FF Agito 13 got renamed into FF Type-0 to seperate it from the Fabula Nova Crystallis.

Mr Space is right on one thing it really is just for the fans who enjoyed FF13, why would they...even with the "improvments" target this at people that didn't like it, didn't finish it, didn't buy it or those who thought it was boring.......they won't play it if it was one of those reasons, plus you would be lost in the story like MrSpace has pointed out. It has no intention to bring faith back to FF13, it's really just targeted at those who bought and enjoyed FF13...people who didn't like the first but buy the sequel is a bonus for Square, nothing more...they don't really care if it fails because they aren't relying on it like they were for FF14.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

You need to give this game a chance, you aren't even paying attention to any of the 'massive' improvements that are being made to this game. Do you honestly believe that Square Enix blowing the improvements out of proportion, they aren't, the improvements are pretty clear to see and websites and people are noticing them. If this was any other article, and not one about XIII-2 you would be bubbled down for trolling.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

The reason why VS13 > 13 & 13-2 is because vs13's battles happen real time.

@rapid

I'm specifically talking about these games.

13 is trash and 13-2 looks like more of the same so far.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

By that logic it's better than all the other FF games before you even know anything about it.

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Can you tell me what about it looks like "more of the same"? I mean obviously they can't massively change the characters about if it's a sequel to XIII, so what else?

[iWishTifaWasReal]

i agree with MySpace,

cuz ive been waiting for Versus for 5 years now

and when they released FFXIII in 2010. i was happy that theres a possibility that Versus might get a 2011 release date but that was shattered when they announced FFXIII-2.

like seriously, im okay with FFXIII. the game is alright. but im really excited for Versus. here they announce a sequel that nobody asked for.

sigh :/

[RedDead]

I gotta say man i'm a devout hater of FFxiii, but this one looks alright, it's still exceptionally cheesy but the other improvements are good, it seems liek a different game to be honest, Autobattle was in FFXiii for all the shi* battles and we were on training wheels for 20+ hours, this more than likely won't be like that. Now...SnowxSerah still creeps me the fu** out...Poor girl would get annihilated in bed.

[SolDojo]

I'm not opposed to giving 13-2 a try, but it means I've got to actually finish 13. Arg.

[GunofthePatriots]

I would never take Lightning out even if i had the option <3

[iamtehpwn]

So far, Lightning limited playability is the only real disappoint about this game thus far...That and only 2 party members.

[pipipi]

i see a lot of bad opinions about FF13... mmm i want it to know why so hate about it? its the equivalent as RESIDENT EVIL 5 is for RESIDENT EVIL saga?

[HINDERIZATION]

Being a very big fan of the Final Fantasy games, I say XIII was mediocre considering all of the parts that they had to cut out of it just to fit it to the 360 version. XIII-2 might have some shine in it, hopefully. But Versus XIII will be a winner. The team working on it is from the Kingdom Hearts franchise. There's no way that it will end up on 360. This also goes with my theory about why it was named "Versus XIII." I think it was because they wanted to see how XIII would do going multiplat and how Versus XIII would do by staying true to console exclusivity.

[iWishTifaWasReal]

okay, i really hate the idea of making a sequel for this game but its coming anyways so whats the point

but i really hope they don't make Versus a PS4 launch or whatever system, or make it multiplatform or even worse cancel it because of this SEQUEL -,-

[just_sayin]

13 story just wasn't properly explained well. Who knew of the 4 gods. The gods creating the Fal'cie giving the a type of focus inturn they create L'cie to do their jobs. Goddess Lindzei ordering Bart to create cocoon. Fal'cie trying to bring back the gods in their own way ( no fal'cie vision was the same) Bart vision of entering the gods world was to kill lots of people while animas was to kill demons (monsters). Goddess Etro is the one who stopped fang from turning into ragnorak twice turning both two crystal. Tons of thing should have been explained thank good for the ultimania.

[Wintersun616]

Can you change it on the fly during battle? Because that's what counts the most. I want 100% control over all of my teams characters doings at all times, because 25% of the time, they don't do what I want them to do with the Paradigms. I don't understand why they didn't make it so in FF XIII in the first place.