Games: Playable Demo for Lightning Returns™: Final Fantasy XIII Released
posted on by Sephi-Lee Williams, community manager at Square Enix, announced yesterday via Sony's PlayStation.Blog that a playable demo version of the long awaited Lightning Returns™: Final Fantasy XIII will be available for download in the PlayStation Store today. The demo version is free, of course, and is supposed to give you some nice insight into the game's mechanics and its wonderful graphics.
Playstation.Blog. Lightning Returns™. 2014. accessed 22 Jan. 2014.
<http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/01/21/lightning-returns-...-ps3/>
In the demo you'll obviously be playing as Lightning, who's trying to find her old ally Snow Villiers in the city of Yusnaan. On your quest to finding out what's happened to the world and how to save it from the chaos you will be fighting your way through this everchanging place in battles incorporating some neat real-time elements. The demo will give you a good look at how this new world unfolds before you and at how the whole battle system evolved from the two prequels. Also, it will show a fraction of your possibilities in customizing Lightning in as well as outside of battle.
That being said, there's one more feature this demo version will introduce you to: the "Outerworld", which is supposed to be a way for players to upload and compare their gaming progress like battle results and more via social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
According to Sony's PlayStation.Blog, if you manage to defeat the demo's final boss "Zaltys" and share your battle results using the Outerworld feature you will unlock a fashion set resembling Siegfried's from Final Fantasy VI.
And lastly one of Square Enix' latest trailers showing a battle between Lightning and Snow Villiers as well as displaying her changing outfits and abilities in battle:
Source: PlayStation.Blog.Europe
Playstation.Blog. Lightning Returns™. 2014. accessed 22 Jan. 2014.
<http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/01/21/lightning-returns-...-ps3/>
In the demo you'll obviously be playing as Lightning, who's trying to find her old ally Snow Villiers in the city of Yusnaan. On your quest to finding out what's happened to the world and how to save it from the chaos you will be fighting your way through this everchanging place in battles incorporating some neat real-time elements. The demo will give you a good look at how this new world unfolds before you and at how the whole battle system evolved from the two prequels. Also, it will show a fraction of your possibilities in customizing Lightning in as well as outside of battle.
That being said, there's one more feature this demo version will introduce you to: the "Outerworld", which is supposed to be a way for players to upload and compare their gaming progress like battle results and more via social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
According to Sony's PlayStation.Blog, if you manage to defeat the demo's final boss "Zaltys" and share your battle results using the Outerworld feature you will unlock a fashion set resembling Siegfried's from Final Fantasy VI.
And lastly one of Square Enix' latest trailers showing a battle between Lightning and Snow Villiers as well as displaying her changing outfits and abilities in battle:
Source: PlayStation.Blog.Europe
Comments (1)
Other than that it was a really nice look into the game and what to expect, and considering it only gave a glimpse of the game's actual contents and possibilities, I'm growing more excited by the day here!