Square Enix announced Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, or, as I like to call it, "Final Fantasy XIII-3". The game actually sounds pretty good but that's not really as interesting as they announced this thing without a word about Versus XIII—the game that was originally announced at the same time as FF XIII and Agito/Type-0 back in 2006. It felt like forever for FF XIII to come out, but they've done a good job pretty much annualizing it. Normally I would hate that term, but I'm actually happy because games are getting made and they're making use of that White Engine/Crystal Tools they spent years developing before jumping to their next engine which they also spent years deving for the PS4/720 generation.
I like anyone who lived through the early SNES and PS1 days have a soft spot for Square Enix. I was a bit down on them (to put it lightly) when they got cocky just like the rest of the Japanese gaming industry at the outset of this generation. Over the last 8 years they've taken a real beating, though, and I think they're starting to get it together. Supporting games like Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex and upcoming Tomb Raider were amazing decisions that must have been hard. They gave Westerners a lot of freedom to come up with amazing games. It feels like they are on their back foot and not rolling over, I think in the upcoming years we're going to get some great games from them.
- Gideon Done
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