Final Fantasy 13

Oh yes!! – at least that’s what we thought when we got news of the latest final fantasy 13 demo. The demo was put onto the blu ray version of Final Fantasy VII Advent children, so you would think this should be pretty monumental in terms of final fantasy releases. Now not to be a square basher or anything but firstly it had turned out the final fantasy13 demo was only to be released to the japanese market – ok so we understand you dont want to waste time converting the language model to be european and thats fair enough, but still surely you can give us a teaser, something little to gnaw on until we get a finished release of ffxiii?

Anyway regardless of this there are further nick’s in the armour. It turns out the 1 hour long game demo featured on the back end of this blu ray is actually representative of the game’s development at early 2008! so since then they have re-written/changed the game engine in final fantasy 13? Making this demo pretty much not a demo at all, more a play thing – a teaser of a teaser. Still we will endeavour to get a copy of it or at least a few videos up soon (anyone going to japan anytime soon?)

Now as if this wasn’t teasing enough, a non uk release of a non representative demo of a non completed final fantasy XIII, we also find out that the game is now supposedly to be launched in japan in Winter 2009! Thats originall when the game was expected in the uk (in fact I think first up they aimed for this summer.) This is unfortunate because there are a lot of gamers awaiting this launch, and they may just get their teeth stuck into something else by the time the newest final fantasy title comes along. Very unlikely as that may be its still a shame that the game won’t make it to the ps3 till probably at least 2010 for us uk/european consumers.

Oh FFXIII how long will you take? It is somewhat traditional to stick ff titles back a while, and we would rather have the full FFXIII shabang with no holds barred, but we just cant wait for 2010!!!!! Check back for up to date progress on the state of final fantasy 13 in the uk/europe.