Lightning Returns XIII-3

[Ratatapa]

Demo is out for NA on PS3 and X360. I can safely say it's mindlessly boring, dull and overall a bad game based on the demo alone. Hooray!

Doesn't seem up on the Sony website

[Adajer]

its up on PS4 too

[Ratatapa]

Wonder if it was already confirmed but w/e

[Jaxzer]

Demo is out for NA on PS3 and X360. I can safely say it's mindlessly boring, dull and overall a bad game based on the demo alone. Hooray!

That bad eh?

[Ratatapa]

That bad eh?

Demo took me 20min to do gameplay looks fun but demo? meh

[Ratatapa]

After playing the demo, i've been wondering some stuff, hope some people can enlighten me (Not story spoilers just mecanics spoilers so not taking chances)

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It says that at start you have 7 days ( can upgrade to 13-14 days with story and sidequest and that 1 days last 24h RL)

1) Does the time continue to go down when the game is closed? Exemple when i go to sleep will i lose 7h on my gameplay?
2) If the answer to Question 1 is yes, would it be better to close the game when i'm in the ark? so time doesn't go down?

[Spira]

After playing the demo, i've been wondering some stuff, hope some people can enlighten me (Not story spoilers just mecanics spoilers so not taking chances)

Spoiler: show

It says that at start you have 7 days ( can upgrade to 13-14 days with story and sidequest and that 1 days last 24h RL)

1) Does the time continue to go down when the game is closed? Exemple when i go to sleep will i lose 7h on my gameplay?
2) If the answer to Question 1 is yes, would it be better to close the game when i'm in the ark? so time doesn't go down?

Spoiler: show

1) no. time only moves when you're playing the game. it also doesn't move during battles, menus, in cutscenes and when talking to people.. and of course, in the Ark

[Ratatapa]

Spoiler: show

1) no. time only moves when you're playing the game. it also doesn't move during battles, menus, in cutscenes and when talking to people.. and of course, in the Ark

So unless you are really bad it's almost impossible to game over?

[Datonare]

Is the english demo the same one as the JP?

[Tyrath]

Eh the battle system seems like it has potential. It reminds me of the dress sphere system from X-2 but with only one character. Seems you can swap freely between 3 schematas which I'm sure will get varied as time goes on. I wish Lightning moved faster in battle though.

[Arelian]

It honestly felt like the whole movement system in battle is entirely pointless. Maybe I'm wrong, but it felt like everything the monsters do will auto-home onto Lightning and all of Lightning's attacks auto-home onto mobs.

[Tyrath]

Yeah my only complaint is that it let you move to enemies and attack them instead of the auto home. Other than that the system looks like it could get wild with all the schematas.

I'm loving the fact that you can create schematas representing traditional FF jobs and tweak them as you wish. And the fact that it's similar to a dress sphere system so the 100s of costumes they were showing off will actually have use. To be honest I didn't pay too much attention to this game until now but I have to say I am way more excited for it after the demo than I was before.

Story still seems stupid as hell but it was fun. Not sure I'm a fan of the timer either. I like to explore RPGs and run around and mess with things. Not sure how restricted that will be with the 13 day timer.

Also, maybe I missed it but how do I get the costume that came with the demo?

[arus2001]

It honestly felt like the whole movement system in battle is entirely pointless. Maybe I'm wrong, but it felt like everything the monsters do will auto-home onto Lightning and all of Lightning's attacks auto-home onto mobs.

There's a part of me that thinks it's just to counter the herpderp "I don't like FFs games because they just stand there and take the turns!" bitching you see from time to time. It's really just a minor aesthetic thing in this case having some mobility from all people involved.

[Alkar]

Yeah my only complaint is that it let you move to enemies and attack them instead of the auto home. Other than that the system looks like it could get wild with all the schematas.

I'm loving the fact that you can create schematas representing traditional FF jobs and tweak them as you wish. And the fact that it's similar to a dress sphere system so the 100s of costumes they were showing off will actually have use. To be honest I didn't pay too much attention to this game until now but I have to say I am way more excited for it after the demo than I was before.

Story still seems stupid as hell but it was fun. Not sure I'm a fan of the timer either. I like to explore RPGs and run around and mess with things. Not sure how restricted that will be with the 13 day timer.

Also, maybe I missed it but how do I get the costume that came with the demo?

You have to share something to Facebook/Twitter through the game's feature (forgot the name). Basically you advertise the game and get a free costume.

[Ratatapa]

You have to share something to Facebook/Twitter through the game's feature (forgot the name). Basically you advertise the game and get a free costume.

You get 2 costume

1) a ninja type one that downloaded witht the game( dunno if you can use it in the demo)
2) one that you get for the real game ( Siegfried) you have to activate the social feature and upload your battle score from the boss

[Alkar]

The samurai garb is exclusive to PS3 btw and no, you cannot use it in the demo. I'm not sure if EU gets the samurai costume as we do get a samurai pack for preorders, I'll have to check when the store is finally updated.

Edit: Ok, nope. EU gets no samurai costume because it's part of the preorder pack.

[Tyrath]

I uploaded my battle score to the outerworld thing. Do I need to upload it to Twitter or FB for the costume? Plus how do I know when I got it?

[Insanecyclone]

[Tyrath]

So I should have it already then. Thanks.

[Ratatapa]

Free Mini Guide from Amazon if people are interested

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....363794250_.pdf