First In-Game Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens Surface

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Richard Walker

Previous Final Fantasy XIII-2 screens were snatched from the rather pretty CGI teaser for the game and while those particular images were all well and good, there's finally a couple of actual gameplay screens to check out rather than the ubiquitous rendered images of Lightning, the game's heroine surrounded by feathers.

As well as dropping a pair of new screenshots, Square Enix has also released a short blurb about Final Fantasy XIII-2's story, to whet the appetite before E3 2011 gets underway in the next few days. Here's the basic plot of the game in one succinct sentence:

"Set a few years after Lightning and the others saved Cocoon, some survivors have decided to start over by rebuilding on Gran Pulse. Lightning, however, is nowhere to be found and thought dead by many, but Serah believes otherwise. When her town is suddenly overrun by monsters, a mysterious man named Noel appears to save her. Together, the two set off to find Lightning..."

And that's the overall premise for Final Fantasy XIII-2. In these two screens, you'll see Serah and the enigmatic Noel fighting monsters and then having a chat. Check out both screens below. Final Fantasy XIII-2 is slated for a winter 2012 release.

[Via Andriasang | Thanks, Max]


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  • Serah and Noel Which ones the girl? I would think Noel. I most likely won't get this, I hated FF13, in fact I'm selling it today. The only thing that I want from Square Enix is Kingdom Hearts 3. Final Fantasy 13 did have some of the best graphics I've ever seen though.
  • I can't wait for this! I absolutely loved FF XIII so this is most likely a day one for me. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
  • Still have to play the first part. We shall see how that goes. At least a friend of mine will get it, haha.
  • This new character looks really cool I need to finish up xiii sometime but there are too many epic games out lately =/
  • I hope this is a real FF game and not that FF13 bullshit Fuck square enix I want FF VERSUS
  • Paradigm Shifts still haunt my dreams...
  • i dont know why so many people say ff13 suck? i know it was diferent but it was still awesome, if you dont like the auto-battle just get to settings and change it to ability were you chose your own attacks.
  • doesnt look that much different from the ff13. disapointed about auto battle making a return ;/
  • @#1 I agree i would prefer kingdom hearts 3 but Final Fantasy XIII-2 is better than nothing
  • Remember when Square-Enix was Squaresoft... back when final fantasy was awsum
  • Male-Yuna
  • ...the world is filled with nothing but whiners, Jeevus! If you don't like a game, don't by the game. If you don't like the game, why the hell are you here bitching about the game you really don't like. Go be deconstructive somewhere else, although, that will not happen. Let me see..., I dislike COD with unrelenting passions, but I will not be complaining on the news and tidbits to come. I hope it is just as enjoyable as FF13!!!
  • @#12 I would say male-Fang...
  • Squaresoft i miss you!!!
  • awsome. i loved the story of FF13 , cant wait to see how they tell the back story to Lightings past a the Princess Knight and Sarah and Snows soon to be child
  • Noel look like a Male Yuna...
  • LOL MALE YUNA! now were is female tidus?
  • Sell Enix! Give me back Squaresoft, at those times FF was awesome and nowadays the games are crap. FFX-2 sucked FFXII sucked FF XIII sucked Give Versus 13 and Kingdom hearts 3, only decent looking games for now from square Enix.
  • "Fuck Square Enix. I want Versus XIII." Huh, you want to rape them and have them give you handouts? Anyway, for everyone that is still (15 months later) very upset about FF XIII you regard as a waste of money, I suggest renting o borrowing from mates. Or take your finger out your arse, smell it and take a picture. At least that would be entertaining for me to see and take away some of your mortal agony.
  • Looks as gorgeous as XIII. Can't wait. I hope it's a little easier than XIII though. Some pof the bosses made me cry.. And that never happens when I play a game.
  • ...I see the unitards are out in full force! Some of ya'll are pathetic!
  • Agree above. I wont where with this is at somepoint it gets more difficult all of a sudden.
  • I liked XIII's story the only problem was I felt that I wasn't doing anything in battle aside from the job shifting. It appears that the battle system is the same which while disappointing, doesn't mean I'm not going to buy it. I love Final Fantasy so this is a no brain first day buy. I've loved every Final Fantasy so far. (Well I haven't played XIV)
  • I'm also waiting on Versus XIII and I hope they make a Kingdom Hearts Collections before Kingdom Hearts 3.
  • I have already preordered this. Can't wait to see more
  • @13 pot kettle black? Your here moaning about the people moaning and you tell me your not a douche bag? Ff13 was shite compared to every other final fantasy game ever made apart from ff x-2. let's face it it got less than 90% overall reviews which 5 years ago was unthinkable for a final fantasy game. Why make a spin off of the least successful game made???? Makes no sense especially when versus 13 has been in the making for forever they should have canned 13 and looked at the new chapter but noooo they have complete retards working over there. I hope it fails personally I'm disgusted how Enix has ruined the legendary series that squaresoft built
  • I need this game now!! Final fantasy is the best series ever. Love them all.
  • Wonder if Leonard Lewis has been brought out of hiding to do the sequel song?? "My Feet"????
  • @27 ...your trying way to hard to justify opinion. It can not be done, no matter how intelligent you believe yourself to be. I played them all, evry last FF, but I would not say in my opinion that 13 was the worst, nor was it the best, but I simply try to enjoy it for what it was and I did. So your rhetoric is pointless and you can not provide enough reasoning to tell me otherwise, that the world is not full of whiners. Take a look around you, seriously, that is what human society has become.... whiners! And Yes, a pot kettle is black. PS - I like you though, you show up on every topic/write and it's great to read your unrelenting, completely unjustified, lacking factual diatribes. Keep it coming, it feeds the throttle of my mind.
  • One more thing... I am not a Douche Bag, I am the Douche itself! Rather be that the worlds finest succubus.
  • When i see the name Noel i always think of Noel from Blazblue lolol (anyway thats off topic) I cant say i like the battle system of FFXIII ... but i didn't hate it either so im content that theyre keeping it or possibly revamping it without letting us know yet. The story sounds like FFX-2: Tidus and Yuna, Lighting and Serah ... the differences will be known when the game comes out so i cant really bash on that until i play it first hand. Im not seriously worried about all that though, i just hope its not as "linear" as the last one. If they do that ill be a happy panda >.<
  • Hopefully, I will have more options than holding forward for the first 10 hours of this game.
  • not bad! However please don't make game over if a person is down as others don't -- just like in FF13! What's wrong with phoenix down lately? ran out of it?
  • EmptyFibers do you understand the meaning behind the pot kettle black saying??? Where oh where did I try to say that the world isnt full of whiners? Your moaning that's right MOANING about other people moaning that makes you exactly the same as those people that you so desperately dislike and try to disassociate yourself with. As for lack of facts I think you need to look at yourself before quoting what others supposedly do, you go look at the reviews for ff13 and come back when you prove that what I've said is wrong, chances are the 31st February will show itself first. I just say things as they are you go poncing around talking shite to people. The fact that you mentioned cod in a ff topic just proves your the king of douchebags
  • Bring on Versus XIII already....
  • @34 how can u get a game over on 13 if one characters falls in battle thts impossible i have finished 13 and when 1 character fell in battle i revived them with either raise or a phoenix down anyway this looks amazing cant wait to play it
  • @37 think he means the main character, when the main character gets killed it's game over
  • ok i agree get versus XIII out there but i want to see this and some one shoot the guy for saying fuck square enix he has no sense of gaming companys
  • @35 Yes I know what the statement "The pot calling the kettle black" means. Do you know what being a smart ass is? So basically what you are telling me is that the enjoyability, granduer and quality of a game come down to reviews and/or sales.... This is where I am lost at your superb intellect. Fact: Average review for FF13 - 8.5 (That's a pretty damn good score now days, unless I am mistaken and I am not.) Fact: FF13 sold 5.5 million units world wide. (Again, that is a rather impressive number for a game, at least from what you say, is no good.) Fact: No where above did I moan or complain about anyone, I simply stated the truth of what generally happens in posts. Am I, to a point, like such at times. Sure, so are you and to tell me otherwise is denial. I don't believe you fully understand what a Douche Bag is, else, you would not use it as you are. :)
  • FF 13 is such a polarized game it's not even funny.
  • @40 For a game that has always been rated 9/10 and above yes it is a poor score especially as there has been 13 installments (not including spin offs) it completely removed the rpg formula which is pretty much a disaster for an rpg. I am absolutely not suggesting enjoyably granduer and quality comes down to reviews or sales ( oh and from that sentence your little quote about 5.5 million copies becomes an irrelevant statement but hey nice try) the simple fAct is a lot of fans felt it was a let down of a game. Fair play they tried something new I'd rather a developer do that than churn out the same shit every year......don't need to mention games ahem, but ff13 for a lot of people was a failed experiment and the reviews actually reflect that opinion. Look at ff14 panned now again each to their own but you find a squaresoft game rated that low! you won't and there's a very good reason for that, graphics improved games gone backwards that my unofficial sparring partner is the sad story of this "next generation of games"
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