Work on Final Fantasy Versus XIII apparently began as early as 2003. Eight years later, Square Enix has released a handful of screenshots and Hollywood style movie trailers. Last year, a trailer with gameplay was shown.
Tonight in Tokyo at a Roppongi movie theater, another trailer was shown. Nobody got to actually play the game, which still does not have a release date. Instead, everyone looked at the pretty pictures. And since Square Enix prohibited the filming of the trailer, gamers read online descriptions of a trailer of a game that the general public has yet to play.
According to online reports, the trailer showed what looked like a Japanese highway, a party in which a king says he'll be the last heir on the throne. And apparently, the trailer was loaded with gameplay of fight scenes with guns and swords, of gun sights taking up the screen and of swords being used to slay an onslaught of enemies. Sounds great, doesn't it?
But nobody can play this, and as of tonight, only a movie theater full of people got to see this trailer. So not only have players been unable to demo the game for years, but they can't even see the trailer. At a later date, Square Enix certainly might release the trailer, but...
Granted, there are rumors that development isn't continuous, that the Versus XIII team was pulled off the project to work on other titles, namely Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIV.
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