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Square Enix Announces Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

As we had anticipated , today would come a story dedicated to all fans of Final Fantasy ruolistica series: on the occasion of the 25 anniversary of the saga, Square Enix announced Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII , a new title to be released in 2013 Fabula Nova Crystallis belonged to and which ends the story of unstoppable Lightning, one of the main protagonists of FFXIII and FFXIII-2.

In recent days were circulated on the net of the rumor that they wanted this new game be a social game, but developers have wanted to immediately refute this reassuring speculation that Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII goes on through and through an action-RPG in which will meet a Lightining even more fierce than before and more agile, and is around her that will rotate the entire adventure. The term "agile" has been used by developers when they described the combat phases during which Lightning, unlike previous chapters, will have the option of running and even jumping. Still, therefore, it is not clear how the fighting will take place: the development team only, at the time, stated that there will be a team that will join the protagonist. Lightning will always be alone during the fighting, and there are elements that will resume the old canons of the genre but also, and especially, many new that will give us the opportunity to move freely Lightining, even allowing her to hide behind rocks and other objects, in case, involved in the scenario. You can assign four skills to the buttons of the controller to run them immediately into battle.

As for the plot, as well as make us discover new sides of Lightning, will see once again the world in danger. As announced, will be only 13 days to the end of the world. Understand how long it remains through a clock everyday item. Also every action and choice of protagonist will take precious time.

The game world is very large and the player may move thanks to a kind of monorail linking the four islands of the archipelago in Partus Novus Sea of Chaos.

The development team has stated that the graphics will undergo substantial improvements and locations are all different from each other and can move freely to give free rein to explore.  Then insured, according to the words of Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama, a great level of navigability. Also in terms of customizing weapons and costumes that you can wear the main character, the title promises great things. Under Armour who will wear, will change his abilities on the field.

From 4 September we will know much more about the title, but in the meantime we leave you with some videos showing the presentation of the product where you can catch a glimpse of the early stages of the game.

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