FFXIII: Sporty Nora Members & The Short Demo
The most recent “scoop” on Final Fantasy XIII in Weekly Famitsu is the Nora team members unveils and an interview with director Motomu Toriyama and assistant character designer Nao Ikeda. Let’s take a look.
The new screens are taken from the same location as previous reports, which is near the border of Cocoon and a section where trains sending people suspected of being ‘influenced’ by Pulse must go through. Apparently, Lighting and Sach Katzroy managed to somehow sneak into one such train, the reason of which is still unclear, and start fighting with guards inside. However, Toriyama says the two won’t meet Snow and his other core Nora members yet in the demo. Toriyama also reveals that the “Ibutsu” (foreign substance) shown in this earlier report is in fact fal’Cie, who created Cocoon.
Lead by Snow, all the young members of Nora kill monsters for living and enjoy a care-free life. Because of that, they were well received by the citizens of Cocoon too. However, they began their fights against the Holy Government when the riverside town they live in was deemed being contaminated by Pulse’s influences and the whole town is about to be banished. Snow and company then start saving people who has the same fate as them.
Toriyama says there are monsters in Cocoon too and the PSICOM army was trained to protect the city from these monsters. As a result they become nervous when fighting against human opponents like Lightning. Toriyama says the intention of the developers is to let players realize that the enemies is not confident and is a “living things” too.
From left to right, the core members of Nora includes Snow, Gadot, Lebreau and Maqui (click on thumbnails for larger view). Toriyama says there will be a fifth core member in Nora but he won’t appear in the demo. However, the demo will reveals more background information about Nora. Ikeda says the overall theme for the character design behind Nora members is “Sports”. As a result, Gadot is based on the fashion of NBA players. He is also the assistant team leader, the Japanese pronunciation of his name implies hot, which is in direct contrast to Snow. He is described as a hot headed person but will never leave his partners behind in any battle.
Lebreau is the only girl in the team and her design is inspired by beach sports like beach volleyball and flying discs. Ikeda says Lebreau’s original design was a normal looking girl but after seeing motion capture actress of her in action, she decided to make Lebreau sexier. She has a never-say-die attitude and is considered a caring person. An important characteristic since she is the healer in the team, Famitsu says the pouch she is carrying has Potions inside. Maqui is good at machines and was discovered by Snow, of whom he is a big fan of. His fashion is inspired by snowboarder outfits, which he wears to hide his young age. He won’t take part in battles.
Vanille, which will be the future partner of Snow, can be seen among the captured and handed a machine gun to Snow.
Toriyama says that despite Yoichi Wada’s comment of FFXIII possibly affected by the delay of Dragon Quest IX, FFXIII’s development still on track for a 2009 release (in Japan). The demo that will comes with Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete was in fact completed in December. It will has a play time of around one hour but Toriyama says it’s solid enough to make you want to play a few times. The demo basically gives player a taste of the battle system, which Toriyama says is intuitive enough for players to easily pull off cool-looking moves.
Square launched the official website of the game recently and Famitsu asks what is the response like. Toriyama says there are plenty of good feedbacks and many expressed their interest in the battle system. However, he says Sazh’s character design drew plenty of unexpected feedbacks, though he didn’t elaborate on what exactly they are. A black guy with afro hair style isn’t something the series have regularly, Toriyama admits he worried about Sazh initially but he think Sazh is a highly watchable character and an experienced voice actor was chosen because Sazh has the most dialogs in the game. As for the little Chocobo that can hide in Sazh’s hair, Toriyama says it’s a new born and has garnered plenty of feedbacks to the extend that the team is currently considering if they should make Chocobo available for battles too.
Source: Famitsu
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