Shift Unlocked

Final Fantasy XIII's Paradigm Shift, ...

24.08.09

We're impartial a few months away from Final Fantasy XIII 's turn loose—in Japan anyway—giving Healthful Enix good reason to reveal more about the r-playing game's battle system. We got a look at FF XIII's goods this week at Gamescom.

Terminal Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase and maestro Motomu Toriyama walked us through a brief exhibition of the game running on the PlayStation 3, a mix of in-trade cinematic moments and battles in a frosty zone dubbed Swimming pool Bilge. Before Toriyama engaged one of the monsters in a brawl to the death, he made sure to give us a good look at our heroes' surroundings, a snowy cave peppered with blue and white icy spires, something the developers seemed positively proud of.

Toriyama explained that the FFXIII crew exerted a great deal of effort to get the limpid and translucent properties of those materials just speedily, which might help explain the game's extremely wish development time—or at least some portion of it.

Once in fracas, Toriyama showed off the game's Active Moment Battle system, which lets players queue up information for more action oriented combat. Expect the numbers of ATB information Lightning, Snow, Vanille and crew can put in the concatenation to expand as the game progresses.