Goodbye, Sweet Prince

[Del Murder]

What's wrong with that? SMTDS2RKvKAP rolls right off the tongue.

[Bolivar]

Since announcing Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Nomura and Square have developed and released:

Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+
The World Ends With You
Dissidia
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
Final Fantasy XIII
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix
Dissidia 012
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Kingdom Hearts 3d: Dream Drop Distance

Was it really necessary for him to work on these eleven games (eight of which on handhelds) at the expense of giving us one original Final Fantasy title?

Then again, this is Kotaku, and it's guaranteed anything they write about Square, PlayStation, Japan, Final Fantasy, or Sony is filled with hatred and jealousy. Just look at what their own editors are posting in the comments.

[Wolf Kanno]

To be fair though, Nomura was just a producer and character designer for all the non-KH games in that list. So outside doing a bit of corporate overhead work and designing the main character in the game, I don't feel the FF titles have been too much of a strain on Versus XIII's development. The flood of KH games is another story... but that's Nomura's baby really, and it's also been one of the most successful franchises for SE this past decade, so it would seem silly not to release something for fans while they wait for KHIII.

[maybee]

Please don't be dead ! FF XIII VS has so much promise. Please be fake !

Just wait tomorrow or pretty soon we'll all get the news that poor Versus is canned to make room for Final Fantasy XIII-3. Sigh.

[Fynn]

Gamespot told me about this today. Say it ain't so, please...

[Dreddz]

From what I could tell FFvsXIII was a terribly misguided project. One with a lot of good ideas (realistic setting, world map etc) that ultimately didn't come together as well as Square had hoped. It was obvious things weren't ok as no company intends to spend this long on one project. Games that are in development hell don't often end up as worthwhile products so maybe Square pulling the plug is a good thing.

It's a tough thing to swallow as FFvsXIII did look legitimately promising and was Squares ray of hope amongst an otherwise boring and predictable lineup of games. If Square cancels FFvsXIII what is there to be excited about from them? They haven't produced a great rpg since FFXII which was released back in 06!

[Hollycat]

I really hope this isn't true, the story looked interesting and the gameplay resembled crisis core mixed with kingdom hearts.

[Wolf Kanno]

The good news if this turned out true though, is that SE could turn around and do to Versus XIII's tech what they did to the Spirits Within's tech when the Hawaii branch got shut down. Basically take all the techniques and useful programmers and just send it off into other games for them. I mean all of the CGI techniques in their post Spirits Within, including Advent Children itself is derived from what Square learned while making The Spirits Within. SE could probably write off Versus XIII as a giant internal tech project to develop techniques for next-gen titles and get their teams used to utilizing their new engines like Luminous.

[Jiro]

I wanted to see Noctis and his buddies in action. That's too bad.

[Mirage]

Square Enix Confirms the Existence of Final Fantasy Versus XIII

That's what you get for buying into baseless rumours!

[Wolf Kanno]

I feel the media was just trying to get Squenix to finally come out and give us some info, anything at all about Versus XIII. At this point in time, I don't even know why I should give a damn about this game anymore than FFXV

[Mirage]

Because it actually looks good. And I'm not even talking about the graphics.

A Final Fantasy action-RPG set in a current/near future world with magic and monsters

That's a setting I have been wanting since several years before versus was even announced.

[nirojan]

We better get to see that city Wada!!!!

@TGS...pretty please???

[Jessweeee♪]

Because it actually looks good. And I'm not even talking about the graphics.

A Final Fantasy action-RPG set in a current/near future world with magic and monsters

That's a setting I have been wanting since several years before versus was even announced.

Seconded! I'd be excited about this game if I saw myself buying a PS3 in the near future. (Or perhaps not-so-near.)

[Wolf Kanno]

Well if it ever gets released in our lifetimes, then I am happy for you but I have MegaTen/Persona for fantasy/occult in a modern setting. I don't need to see an FF take on it.

It's not that the game doesn't interest me, but the lack of info makes being excited for it non-existent. I can't be bothered to care about something I have a few plot details (especially from an author who has let me down before) and a video that Nomura has said isn't the final product. Nomura says some cool things about the game, but by this point in time, I no longer believe it can live up to the expectations of its hype.