Look, 13 was an okay series, but they are dragging it out WAY too much.
Just give it up, 13 was a good game, and it didn't need a sequel, and it should have been left at that.

I was gonna say....7 had more spin off shit and movie's and blah blah blah than the 13 series is getting...I think...

And as far as XIII-3 goes, which this basically is....I am not liking the doom clock. Has me meh to it.

And if they didn't end 2 on such a shitty ass moronic note, 2 could have been the end of it and they could have put the resources into versus. But no....they have to milk 13 like they milked 7. And they still haven't even done the remake of 7 that everyone and their mother wants.

Yeah sorry, I was only aware 7 had a movie and the PSP game.

Ah wells.

Moogles looked best in FF12 as well come to think of it. Resembling Bunnies ftw.

You mean these ?

why are they even bothering with versus then at this point if they're going to avoid it at all costs?

New details have surfaced about the design mantras behind Square Enix's recently announced Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns.

An interview in the latest issue of Famitsu, translated by Andriasang, reveals that the game will come with just one ending and that it'll be a happy one.

Despite this, the game is apparently being designed to encourage players to go through and complete it multiple times, and the length of the game will reflect this (i.e. it's not going to take hundreds or even, apparently, tens of hours to complete).

Depending on your actions, the remaining life of the world can also increase and decrease, meaning the world could end before the previously mentioned 13 days. It also appears that each of these in-game days will last between one and two real-world hours.

So it looks like Lightning's adventure is going to be a very different experience to the ones that have come before. Also in the interview it's mentioned that Hope will make an appearance, guiding Lightning by wireless com, and that this entry in the Final Fantasy XIII series will be "World Driven", asking players to consider how they interact with the changing world.

There's no reference to a potential release window, but the game is apparently about 30% complete. Seeing as we heard at the start of August that the game had only recently entered production, it seems the game is making good progress, regardless.

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be the final game to feature Lightning and is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360.