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You could say that this happened to me once before, but I think I’m already past that level and it’s only day three. I’m talking about me getting rather hooked on a trailer for a game and watching it a rather insane number of times for at least a few days in a row. Should go without saying that I’m also sending the link to pretty much everyone I’m talking to.
The trailer in question is the Final Fantasy XIII international trailer, which can perhaps make it all even weirder since I couldn’t play it even if I wanted to, seeing as it’s only for consoles, and I wouldn’t particularly want to anyway, considering how frustrating I find JRPGs or any other games that use that kind of combat system or gameplay in general. Then again, the Final Fantasy series is known for good stories, which made me struggle through the only two titles that have made it to the PC, namely Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII, not to mention that I also played Septerra Core and am now playing Anachronox, which both use that kind of gameplay…
Getting back to the trailer in question, I find it highly unlikely that anyone will come up with a better one this year, despite the complaints that many seem to have about replacing the original Japanese theme song in general and the exact song it was replaced with in the international version in particular. Not impossible, certainly, but highly unlikely. This is simply something that makes you say that games are truly becoming movies that also allow you to get involved in the action, even if that action often detracts from the story. And that impression is only strengthened once you also see the longer TGS ’09 trailer.
Judging from what I see here and what I know about the Final Fantasy series in general, I’ll say that the story of Final Fantasy XIII will be one worth watching, though the game itself will likely be frustrating at best. It would probably turn out really well if made into a movie, as long as they’d do it properly that is…