Exciting, exciting things out of E3. Trailers for Lightning Returns (Final Fantasy XIII-3), a trailer for Final Fantasy XV (formerly known as FF XIII: Versus), an official announcement for Kingdom Hearts 3, and more stuff about Pokémon X and Y!
I don’t care
how many people are tired of Final Fantasy XIII. Lightning is awesome, and with every new
trailer I watch, my excitement for this game increases. Too bad we won’t be able to play it for
another eight whole months. Oh well. I’m
kind of digging Snow’s new look as well, and I’ve never even really liked Snow that
much. He looks oh, I don’t know… haggard
and world-weary? Like a tough, broken
man with nothing left to lose. And I
guess he is. It’s kind of cool…? xD
The trailer
for Final Fantasy XV… pretty much
blew my mind. Those graphics!
Amazing! The setting looks resplendent
and original. Also, it doesn’t hurt that
Noctis is pretty. (* 3 *) Whaaa--? I’m not creepy. You take that back. Anyway, looks like I’m gonna have to figure
out how to afford a PlayStation4 when the time comes for FF XV.
I never
thought I’d live to see the day Kingdom
Hearts III was announced! Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but it’s how I
felt, darn it. I mean, it’s been SEVEN
years since KH II, and in that time we got a bunch of handheld games (some a
bit superfluous, some not), as well as a few remakes. But just because we’ve been told KH III is in
development doesn’t really mean we’ll see the game anytime soon. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we might
get KH III within the next two years, but even that seems soon given
Square-Enix’s track record with announcing things. Still, I don’t know. Maybe they’ll surprise me. I’ve become quite cynical since the first
game 11 years ago. That’s not to say my internal fangirl didn’t squee and dance about when
Sora walked out on the beach and picked up the Keyblade in the sand. :D And are Heartless back in this game? It looks like that was what Sora was running
from through Twilight Town. Then again, it’s still too early to make assumptions. So much stuff will change from here until
then as the game is developed, but I greatly appreciated the little teaser.
Lots of
Pokémon stuff was revealed at E3 as well.
I like everything that I’m seeing so far, especially that Pokémon-Amie
thing, despite the odd name. Getting to pet, feed, and interact with
3D renderings of my Pokémon? Freakin’ awesome. I feel like I've been waiting for something like that ever since I first started playing Pokémon 15 years ago. Oh, and the new type is officially called Fairy
type. Eh, I am okay with this. The one thing I just don’t
really understand is why they have to convert Pokémon like Gardevoir and Marill
to half Fairy-type. Why can’t Marill just be Water-type? Why does it have to be dual-type? Aaagh.
It’s seriously gonna give me a brain cramp trying to figure out how
Fairy interacts with, what, like 16 other types? My head hurts just thinking about it.
So, those
are all my thoughts about what I’ve seen from E3. I really need to go in-person one of these
years. Maybe next time. This year I’ve got Comic-Con to look forward to, which
will likely have even more new stuff, video game-centric and otherwise, that
I will report on as in-depth as I can.
Anybody else looking forward to a particular title showcased at E3?
