Final Fantasy XIII-2 Officially Announced

[Andromeda]

The ending of FFXIII should remain as it is and they should move on not trying to change it. It would weaken the impact of their sacrifice. It would also weaken the ending.

And the mystery man is said to be Lightning's rival and partner. So I guess he'll be with her, but challenge her as well. Considering he is in the logo, it's unlikely he is a villain or the bad guy.

[Flongo]

Hi there. I'm new on the forum, just wanted to throw in my opinion.

My major concern for XIII-2 is the characters. I think the core gameplay of XIII is great, and using the same setting etc. they will be able to focus more on the story.

But I do NOT want to see Hope again. Never in my life have I hated a character in a video game so much before. I play this game with a friend and every time he gets on screen and says something we're practically yelling at the screen for him to drop dead.

So my hopes go out to the game ditching some of the "side" characters and focus more on Lightning / bring new characters to the game.

Also a feature I'd like to see is the ability to choose the Japanese voices (I think I read somewhere this was originally planned for the release of XIII). I heard a comparison on Youtube and somehow Hope seemed less annoying and also I really liked the voice of Lightning.

Anyway if Hope goes away I'll buy it in a heartbeat!

[Andromeda]

It's likely he'll make some sort of appearance even if he is not part of the actually core game. Everyone will get some sort of cameo no doubt if they are not with Lightning on whatever journey she's going on. The same happened with FFX-2, Wakka and Lulu had their cameos.

And it is possible that SE would have giving us Japanese voices had the game been PS3 only. The game was already 3 discs on the 360. And audio takes up a pretty sizable amount of space. The PS3 would have gotten away with it, but the 360 would have needed another disc probably. So it is unlikely that we'll get both tracks because FFXIII-2 is multi-platform.

[Flongo]

I think I would be okay with a cameo. It's just the thought of the main party etc being the same that I would not like.

Yeah, I thought that might've been why they didn't give us multi-audio. But as a PS3 owner here's to hoping they will put it on our version anyways .

And while on the audio subject- I hope it will feature yet another stellar soundtrack. While XIII may not have been perfect I feel the music very much delivered as one could hope from a Final Fantasy game. Pretty much every day we've played this I've stopped and said: Hot diggity, this is some nice music- I think I'll go buy the soundtrack soon!