Square Enix’s role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII is a PlayStation 3. (And an Xbox 360 game!) But at one time, the game was running on the PS2.
Early artwork and screens have been published in two new books from Square Enix, giving insight into the game’s design process. These test version images date pre-E3 2006 when the game was announced, and thus, are logically running on the PS2.
The art direction is different than what appeared in the final product. The battle user interface doesn’t look that different, however.
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Adrian Verna
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 5:46 PMTo be honest, that actually looks pretty cool.
What could’ve been.
Luke Davis
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 5:58 PMCel shaded FF? Yes please!
Weresmurf
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:34 PMAgreed. Looks like it woulda been awesome :D
Larfin_Man
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 5:59 PMCellshaded Final Fantasy? =3
Pac-white
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:03 PMyou suppose this was used as a proof of concept to sell the combat system and using recycled assests as a result, or maybe at one stage it was going to be X-3
Vel
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:53 PMFFX-3 O.o That’s totally cel-shaded Yuna and Rikku… I have to say that looks pretty cool but I don’t think cel-shading suits FF at all. Maybe because I keep associating it with sub-par JRPG that has really whiny anime characters :-/
Beat
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 11:06 PMBashing Persona? On my Kotaku?
KD
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 8:17 PMI totally thought that looks like Yuna and Rikku in those shots too ^^
kaiden
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:58 PMthey should remake ff6 with that cel shading.
Keay See
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 10:40 PMFinal Fantasy 12 was actually delayed in its delivery. In the middle of the delay, SE has started its development for FF13.
Carlos Varney
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 12:32 PMI think Vel was referring to Wild Arms 4 onwards as well as Rogue Galaxy.