Over the weekend, what are supposedly new screens from Final Fantasy Versus XIII appeared online. The screens show how the game is coming along–more importantly, how Square Enix’s new development tech is factoring in.
Some FF fans prefer the old Noctis. Some like the new one, especially how Square Enix has refined his character design.
As Japanese commenters are pointing out online, it looks like Noctis has aged. Well, technically he has. That original trailer was shown in 2009. It’s 2011.
And the release date for Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still TBA.
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Sam
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:21 AMPreferred original Noctis, if I’m going to go all wacky Japanese haircuts in wacky Jap RPGs, I prefer to go all the way to crazy town. New one still looks like “Super Effeminate Man” but now it looks they’re trying for him not to be instead of embracing it. Meh is anyone still reeally interested in this? It was my fav reveal of the show when it premiered… now… whatever, especially after XIII
AerintheADEQUATE
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:00 AMwell now he looks like a 12 year old boy instead of a 12 year old girl… so I’d say they’re heading in the right direction at least… by 2015 he should be in the midst of puberty.
Ynefel
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:34 AMWell it’s taken them several years to figure out how he’s going to look. We should have Versus XIII in time for the PS5 and Xbox 1080 in 2019, right?
Ed
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:39 AMThe 2011 pic looks like in-game graphics while the 2009 looks like CG…
Ponton
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 9:07 AMthis is exactly what I thought when I saw the pics.
winhhh
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 9:12 AMMost likely true. Looks like ass, anyway.
Josh
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 2:29 PMNah, the 2011 photo is a shot from the 360 and the 2009 shot is from the PS3.
bigkid
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5:23 PMPossible
daz
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 4:36 PMactually this game isnt being released for xbox. its totally ps3 exclusive
cJ
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:46 AMare you for serious? they are basically identical, the new one has a little less hair; emphasis on little.
Fat
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:22 PMI’m pretty sure the base of his jaw is a little lower, his chins a little wider and his eyes are a little smaller. I like it.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 9:57 AMi like it better, he’s less wacky generic JRPG character with weird hair, i’m not saying he isn’t completely un-generic, but less.
and i’m still interested in the game… for it to come out, so the devs can work on kingdom hearts 3…
Hermes and Thoth
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM^ yep.
trollface
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 10:17 AMman, this series must die already, i’m so sick of seeing FF shit all over the net..yea that’s right me-me-me-me-me
blerg
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 4:04 PMTotally Agree.
Man.. Without Hironobu Sakaguchi, FF series is falling downhill.
just shut it down.. seriously..
matt
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:14 PMyep but tbh i think the last good one was 12 (it really was pretty impressive, had it quirks but it was massive and wasnt so in your face with all the weird jrpg stuff), i liked 10 and most of the earlier ones, so its not like they have failed miserably over and over, its just since 13 i have despised every idea they have had lol, i’m having a lot of trouble holding out hope, i’m close to just saying fuck it never playing an ff again.
Pariah
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 10:23 AMI’m really looking forward to this game.. Always have been. His new style doesn’t look too bad, I have nothing bad to say about it.
Zico
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:08 AMConsidering I was like 24 when I first heard about this game and now I’m 29, I’m cool with noctis ageing
noko
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:18 AMThank god, his hair looks more disheveled and less tub-of-gel. I like it, although they should really release the game already.
PrettyTones
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:24 AMThat’s a lot of virtual wax on the dude’s hair.
Rolan
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:35 PMThey’ve really done a lot:
Darkened the shot
Brought the angle down to eye level
Added shadow and blue lighting to the side of his face
Stares past the camera instead of at it
And they even managed to open his mouth little to show some teeth
All that in 2 years, wow they must have been working hard, I cant wait for them to start work on the actual game.
Ty
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 4:04 AMThanks, I was starting to wonder if I was taking crazy pills. The model’s damn near identical if it’s not the same one. His hair’s a bit shinier and it’s a different angle, but that’s it.
Matt Dive
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:57 PMIs it just me or are they trying to pander to the western audience with this redesign? Less J-Pop Bishonen, more… I dunno, I can’t put my finger on an example.
bigkid
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5:22 PMGood to be less girlie.
Digtrio
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 6:18 PMDunno ’bout you guys but I don’t know why they keep showing us the game and then not, y’know, actually develop the bloody thing.
Out of the three XIII titles Versus interested me the most. These days I’ve mostly hopped off the Final Fantasy train but I am still remotely interested in Versus.
Still, can only remain interested for so long Squeenix…
Steve
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:48 PM“Noctis Lucis Caelum”
They seriously named a character that?
AHHAHAHAHAHH
A
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 1:29 AMI liked Noctis better before…Dx He’s still adorable, but the anime look is mostly gone. And he doesn’t look as Asian T^T I loved that about him <3 I wish Square would change him back.
Lord Sysuphus
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:00 AMThe 2009 version’s face looks a lot like Bailey Jay. YUM. <3
Josh
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 11:15 AMIt hasn’t changed, the difference is that one is CGI and the other one is rendered in real time. Just like in FFXIII you have the real time scenes and CGI movies. CGI are more detailed because it is prerendered into a video.