Brand New Footage from Demo

[Wolf Kanno]

Finished the Snow videos and must say I am quite pleased. Snow's combat definetly showed more of the cinematic qualities of the combat system and his ice magic was quite pleasing. I wish we could see a party that didn't have gun users in it cause I'm curious to see how Lightning and Snow would fight together.

I'm intrigued by the people talking to you as you walk by, I'm curious to know if this is something unique to this moment or have we finally gone full VA for even the most minor of NPC's? It could be quite interesting. Snow is pretty amusing and I though it quite interesting to see him do something foolish and see him botch it. The Demo's ending was a bit anti-climatic though, and brought back memories of Xenosaga. Still, the second half was a bit more amusing than Lightning's section.

One thing I am curious about is about weapons. Snow doesn't appear to have any. His gloves look quite simple and more of his outfit than a stylish pair of combat knuckles. I'm curious to know if XIII is going to have an equipment system or does the character building system going to compensate for it like in VIII and X? Hell, is Snow even using his real weapon?