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Final Fantasy XIII characters. The following is a list of characters from Final Fantasy XIII. Contents. 1 Player characters. 1.1 Guest characters. 2 Non-player characters. 2.1 Sanctum officials. 2.2 Other characters. 2.3 The fal'Cie. 2.4 Gods mentioned in Datalog. Player characters. Guest characters. Non-player characters. Sanctum officials.
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The series' central characters are Lightning, a former soldier and the core character in all three games; Serah Farron, Lightning's sister; Snow Villiers, an optimistic young man engaged to Serah; Hope Estheim, a young man who develops a strong bond with Lightning; Sazh Katzroy, a former airship pilot; Oerba Dia Vanille and Oerba Yun Fang, two w...
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Oct 19, 2021 · There are numerous characters throughout the story of Final Fantasy XIII that look to stand in the way of our protagonists. Each have their reasons, but the most prominent are Barthandelus (Galenth Dysley) and Orphan.
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is the thirteenth main installment in the Final Fantasy series and the flagship title of the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy sub-series, developed and published by Square Enix. It was released in December 2009 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and has since been re-released on Microsoft Windows in 2014. It was directed by Motomu Toriyama, with Tetsuya Nomura designing the main characters and Masashi Hamauzu composing the score. The game runs on the Crystal Tools engine. It was the first multi-platform Final Fantasy title and the first to be translated into traditional Chinese.
XIII is set on the world of Gran Pulse, above which floats Cocoon, an artificial biodome on which humanity lives, fearful of the surface world. Lightning, a member of the Guardian Corps military forces, goes rogue when her sister Serah is branded a l'Cie by a fal'Cie from Gran Pulse, designating her an enemy of Cocoon. The Sanctum government authorizes a Purge of citizens who may have come in contact with the fal'Cie, and Lightning meets up with the pilot Sazh Katzroy on her way to find Serah amid the Purge. Also caught up in the Purge are Snow Villiers, Serah's fiance and leader of the anti-authority group, NORA, and the civilians Hope Estheim and Oerba Dia Vanille. The five come into contact with the Pulse fal'Cie, Anima, and are branded l'Cie, seemingly with the Focus to destroy Cocoon.
The gameplay makes use of the Command Synergy Battle system, a more fast-paced menu-based combat system that derives from the Active Time Battle system. The player controls the party leader and chains as many actions as there are ATB gauges, with different actions consuming different amounts of ATB. The party's abilities and actions are determined by the current paradigm, with combat requiring the player to shift between paradigms and to level the paradigm roles via the Crystarium system. The game's first half is linear, while the latter half opens up once the party reaches Gran Pulse.
XIII received generally positive reviews from most outlets, who praised the graphical presentation and battle system, while the story received a mixed reaction and criticized the linearity. Final Fantasy XIII was commercially successful, with Square Enix announcing it sold approximately 6.6 million copies. A sequel titled Final Fantasy XIII-2 was released in 2011, and a second sequel, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, was released in 2014. Square Enix announced that the Lightning Saga had sold 11 million copies worldwide.
The game's progression is chapter-based, and in most chapters, the player will see the story through different characters' views. Players can move around the field map while controlling the party leader, the other members moving independently, sometimes running ahead, engaging in dialogue, or stopping to look at objects on the field and pointing things of interest out to the party leader. Other party members being far away from the leader does not affect their participation in battles that take place in a separate module. Players can jump, but only at specific jump spots marked on the map.
Enemies will appear on the map, and battles initiate when coming into contact with them. Treasure chests can't be opened near a monster, and there are several instances enemies are "guarding" treasures and must be banished to collect the loot. Shrouds can be used to move about the field without triggering enemy encounters and to bestow the party with buffs before the battle's start.
Some enemies may fight each other, and interacting with them initiates a three-way battle.
Players can't set the party or the party leader until later into the game, but diversity is brought in via the Paradigm Shift system. The party leader being incapacitated spells Game Over, but the player will simply appear at the point on the field right before they initiated the fight, and they may either reattempt the battle or leave it.
Setting
See also: Cocoon (Final Fantasy XIII) or Gran Pulse Cocoon is a hollow floating world created thirteen centuries ago by the deity Lindzei, and is ruled by fal'Cie; godlike beings of immense power and authority. Located in Gran Pulse's atmosphere, Cocoon is a futuristic utopian world isolated from the wilderness of the lowerworld. Cities exist on the inside of Cocoon's shell with barriers all around, and the people are forbidden to leave Cocoon. Machines and mechanized beasts are commissioned as the citizens' guardians while the resident fal'Cie provide them with whatever they need, from food and water to protection and guidance and entertainment. The people of Cocoon are conditioned to believe that Pulsians are savages out to destroy them and their paradise and that Pulse is a world full of unknown terrors, a hell for humans. Gran Pulse, known to Cocoon's people only as Pulse, is the expansive lowerworld beneath Cocoon, created by its namesake deity Pulse. As opposed to the Cocoon fal'Cie, Pulse fal'Cie only serve to cultivate the land, having little to do with human affairs. The plants and wildlife can evolve and grow to immense sizes, and the world is ruled by natural selection, where only the strongest survive. Compared to Cocoon, Gran Pulse is primitive, with ancient technology and monsters roaming everywhere. The people of Pulse were raised to believe that Cocoon is a source of evil, a "floating nest of vipers" posed to attack at any time. Six centuries ago, tensions between Cocoon and Gran Pulse rose to the point of war, and the War of Transgression broke out. Two Pulsian girls were made l'Cie and bestowed with the power to transform into the legendary beast called Ragnarok to destroy Cocoon. In the war's climax, only one of the girls became Ragnarok and cracked Cocoon's shell but failed to destroy the floating world. Cocoon was victorious, and most of Gran Pulse's population had been wiped out. Cocoon's fal'Cie raided Pulse for raw materials to repair the damage sustained, and the war served to strengthen the people's paranoia towards Pulse.
Characters
Main article: Final Fantasy XIII characters There are six playable characters and two guest characters. Although the game focuses on each of the playable characters equally, most of the story is told from Lightning's perspective. Playable characters •Lightning — Formerly a member of the Guardian Corps in Bodhum before her life came crashing down when her younger sister Serah became a Pulse l'Cie. Regretting her refusal to believe Serah, Lightning volunteers to be Purged to save her. She is an agile fighter who makes use of a variety of gunblades, the Blazefire Saber among them. •Snow Villiers — Leader of NORA, Snow Villiers is a sturdy man whose mannerisms resemble those of a cowboy. He travels to the Hanging Edge to fight PSICOM and the Purge to save his fiancée, Serah. Although Snow uses his fists to fight, his equipped "weapon" is a runed coat, designed to enhance the wearer's strength. •Oerba Dia Vanille — A spirited, young girl with a mysterious past who carries a heavy burden that the others are initially unaware of. She acts as the story's main narrator and can be considered a deuteragonist. Her weapon of choice is called the Binding Rod. •Sazh Katzroy — A middle-aged man with dark skin and an afro. He was formerly in the military but now works as a civilian airship pilot. In the hopes of saving his son, Dajh, he boards the Purge train. He fights with two pistols that can combine into a rifle and owns a Chocobo Chick that hides in his hair. •Hope Estheim — A teenage boy from Palumpolum who, with his mother, is part of the group of exiles onboard the Purge train. Blaming Snow for his mother's death, Hope follows him but ends up being forced to work with him and the others. He wields boomerangs in battle. •Oerba Yun Fang — A tan-skinned woman with a large tattoo on one arm and a scorched mark of the l'Cie on the other. She searches for a friend and aims to complete her Focus. Her weapon of choice is a variety of double-ended spears, including the Bladed Lance, capable of becoming three-sectioned staffs. Guests •Gadot — A member of NORA and Snow's childhood friend. He is a dark-skinned man with orange hair and teal clothes. His design is based on NBA and hip-hop fashion. He uses a machine gun in battle. •Lebreau — A woman with black hair and a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder. She is the only female member of NORA. Her outfit is based on volleyball players, wearing short shorts and a tank top-like shirt with puffy sleeves. She uses a rifle in battle.
Story
Main article: Final Fantasy XIII story Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Cocoon is plunged into chaos when the Sanctum discovers a Pulse fal'Cie in an old Pulsian landmark in Bodhum. Fearing that anyone that has been in its vicinity might now be a l'Cie servant of a hostile fal'Cie from another world, Cocoon's governing body enacts a Purge to remove everyone who happened to be in Bodhum during the discovery. At the center of everything is Serah Farron, a local girl who had unwittingly wandered into the vestige and been made a l'Cie and is now held captive by the fal'Cie therein. Serah's sister Lightning sets out to save her amid the Purge. She ends up meeting various allies of circumstance before the fal'Cie Anima's abode: Serah's fiance Snow and two youths caught up in the Purge he's been protecting, Hope and Vanille, and a gun-wielding airship pilot Sazh. As they locate Serah, she crystallizes after asking Lightning to save Cocoon. Believing Serah to be dead, Lightning leads an attack on the fal'Cie Anima, who briefly transports the group into another realm. They come face-to-face with the god Pulse that brands everyone a l'Cie, showing them a vision of the mythical beast Ragnarok destroying Cocoon. Back in the real world, the group must come to terms with being unwittingly been made enemies of Cocoon, as if they don't follow the path set out for them by the fal'Cie, they will become mindless monsters known as Cie'th. The members of the group react to their predicament in various ways: Snow makes protecting Serah's crystal his priority; Lightning sets upon a path of revenge against Cocoon's governing body, the Sanctum, and all fal'Cie with Hope, who views her as a role model, following suit; while Sazh and Vanille choose to run from their fate. They learn Vanille is harboring a secret of having been a l'Cie from Pulse all along, and she and her friend Fang—who joins their group—were involved in the war between the two worlds over six hundred years ago, sleeping through the centuries in crystal stasis. After settling their differences, the party decides to work together to stop the fal'Cie's plan and gain the help of the Cavalry, a rogue army regiment that posits their wish is to free Cocoon from fal'Cie rule. The l'Cie learn everything was a ruse set up by the fal'Cie, who have manipulated their every action from the shadows. The fal'Cie's ultimate purpose for Cocoon is to be a "farm" for human souls, which the fal'Cie wish to expend to summon a god they call the Maker from another realm. Trying to protect Cocoon despite it going against their Focus, the l'Cie gather in the fal'Cie Orphan's resting place, the fal'Cie that powers all the other fal'Cie in Cocoon. As the party learns Orphan shares the other fal'Cie's goal to sacrifice Cocoon's citizens, they conclude there is no way for humanity and fal'Cie to co-exist. The party declares their real Focus is to save Cocoon and kill Orphan. As Cocoon falls from the sky, Fang and Vanille summon the mythical beast Ragnarok to erect a crystal pillar to sustain Cocoon above Gran Pulse, and the world is saved.
Main article: Final Fantasy XIII: Original Soundtrack
Masashi Hamauzu, one of the composers of Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack and the composer of the Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- Original Soundtrack, composed the music for Final Fantasy XIII. The game's vocal theme is called "Kimi ga Iru Kara" ("Because You're Here"), performed by the J-pop artist Sayuri Sugawara. Nobuo Uematsu was originally announced as the composer of the game's vocal theme, but later decided to give the duties to Hamauzu after being hired to work on Final Fantasy XIV.
The Japanese soundtrack was released on January 27, 2010, with two versions available for purchase. The standard version contains four discs, while the limited edition includes a bonus "drama CD" based off Jun Eishima's Final Fantasy XIII Episode Zero -Promise-.
Leona Lewis sings the English theme song for the western localizations, titled "My Hands". Yoshinori Kitase explained the decision to use a different song was due to difficulties translating "Kimi ga Iru Kara" into English. "My Hands" was chosen as the lyrics still fit the game's theme. In the game's western versions, the song "Eternal Love" is replaced with "Serah's Theme".
Main article: Final Fantasy XIII development
was revealed to the world at E3 2006 as part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy series that it would be the flagship title of. It had a tricky development cycle, starting as a project for PlayStation 2, and requiring a brand new engine. Its overarching concept was "a future world fantasy" and "people fighting against fate". The battle system concept was to maintain the strategic nature of command-based battles but create battles similar to those seen in the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. The development team resembled those of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 with Yoshinori Kitase at the helm.
Original
was released on December 17, 2009, in Japan exclusively for PlayStation 3. Coinciding with the release, a Japanese alcoholic beverage distributor Suntory released the energy drink Final Fantasy XIII Elixir to promote the game's release. A PlayStation 3 bundle called "Lightning Edition", which includes a copy of Final Fantasy XIII, was released in Japan on the same day. Two hundred units were allocated to be sold in Taiwan. It contains a ceramic white PlayStation 3 slim 250GB set with pink Lightning artwork. On November 13, 2009, the game creators released a video with interviews and new footage that announced its international release date. One month before the game's release, Square Enix had begun promoting the game via a tour bus where gamers could preview and play the game, until March 9, 2010, Final Fantasy XIII was released worldwide on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A Limited Collector's Edition was released exclusively in PAL territories. It contains the game packaged with the following exclusive content: •Artwork of all six party members with their respective Eidolons. •Two stickers of the Pulse l'Cie brand. •The Original Sound Selection includes composer Masashi Hamauzu's comments on the ten tracks comprising the selection. •A hardback book, titled The World of Final Fantasy XIII, contains scenario information. A special Xbox 360 bundle was available for the North American, European, Australian, and New Zealand releases. The bundle included a 250GB Xbox 360, two wireless controllers, and a copy of Final Fantasy XIII. is the first game in the series to receive an official Chinese release. The localization used the original Japanese audio with traditional Chinese subtitles and was made by SEC Asia. Unofficial translations call Final Fantasy "Space Warrior" (太空戰士), but Yoshinori Kitase kept the name "Final Fantasy" for consistency. The game was released as an Ultimate Hits International Edition on Xbox 360 in Japan on December 16, 2010. It includes a brand new Easy Mode and is packaged with the following content: •An artwork booklet, titled FINAL FANTASY XIII -Corridor of Memory- with visual art from Japan and overseas. •FINAL FANTASY XIII Unused Event Scenes, a look at scenes cut from the game with an accompanying script. •An epilogue novel, titled Final Fantasy XIII -Episode i-, reveals the events after the end of the game.
Microsoft Windows and Steam
Square Enix announced at Tokyo Game Show 2014 that Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII would be coming to PC and Steam. Final Fantasy XIII arrived first on October 9, 2014. The game features English and Japanese dubs and subtitles in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The Japanese and Asian versions only have Japanese audio, with subtitles in English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean. The game runs capped at 60FPS. Both Xinput and DirectInput controllers are supported. A patch update was released in December 2014, which included customizable rendering resolution options previously absent in the initial release of the game.
iOS and Android
became playable on iOS and Android systems on April 10, 2015, via the App Store and Google Play in Japan. The game, distributed by Broadmedia Corporation, runs on smartphones thanks to G-cluster Global Cloud Technology, meaning players need to be connected to the internet to play. The application is free to download and try for the first 30 minutes, with a 2,000 yen in-app purchase allowing users full access. The game is played on a server, and the footage is sent to the player's device that, in return, sends controller inputs back over the air. Square Enix recommends players play on a wi-fi network with a stable 3Mbps connection.
Critical reception
received favorable reviews in Japanese game media and was voted as the second-best game of 2009 in Dengeki Online's reader poll. In January 2010, it was voted "the best game ever" in the Famitsu reader poll. The game's Metacritic score stands at 83 for the PlayStation 3, and 82 for the Xbox 360, signifying "generally favorable" reviews. has been hailed as a technical milestone with its presentation of CGI cutscenes and the almost seamless transition of visual quality between cutscenes and real-time gameplay. Many have appreciated the game's soundtrack though some feel the replacement of the game's original theme song with Leona Lewis's "My Hands" was unfortunate. The battle system has been generally liked, with the increased speed and the depth of the Paradigm Shift system. The story, characters, and voice acting were mostly received well with reviewers, stating the characters worked well together, and the interactions between them made up for shortcomings in the storyline. Many, however, reacted negatively to the game's linear nature, especially in the first ten chapters on Cocoon compounded by the absence of traditional towns and little interaction with non-player characters. Many also noted that the slow pace the game opens up, with the Crystarium system only expanding at specific storyline points to allow the characters to learn more abilities, and the relatively late point the player is allowed to choose their battle party, contributed to the game's linear feeling, some citing it "boring". Game director Motomu Toriyama has since stated the lower-than-expected review scores resulted from reviewers approaching the game with a western point-of-view, and reviewers were used to games where the player was given an open world to explore. He noted this expectation contrasted with the development team's vision in that it "becomes very difficult to tell a compelling story when you're given that much freedom". was ultimately unexpectedly polarizing and is the first Final Fantasy main title to elicit such strong fan reactions. Square Enix's then-CEO, Yoichi Wada, acknowledged the divided criticism, saying in a Gamasutra interview that "... when it comes to the customers' reaction to the quality of the game, some value it highly and some are not very happy with it". When the game was re-released in October 2014 for PC, the game received a "mixed reception" and, at its lowest favor rate from the players, had 41% of positive reception. Among many issues that made the players disappointed were locked 1280×720 resolution, lack of graphic settings, stuttering, and lag. The game later received "mostly positives" user reviews on Steam after Square Enix released a patch update to fix most of the issues in December 2014.
Commercial performance
In Japan, Final Fantasy XIII sold over a million units on its first day of sale and had sold over 1,600,000 copies in Japan at the end of 2009. In March 2010, Square Enix stated that Final Fantasy XIII is the fastest-selling title in the series' history. By April, American game sales reached an estimated 800,000 units for PlayStation 3 and 500,000 units for Xbox 360. As of June 9, 2011, Final Fantasy XIII has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide. As of May 2016, the Microsoft Windows version sold over 570,000 units on Steam.
Legacy
A sequel titled Final Fantasy XIII-2 was announced on January 18, 2011. Square Enix registered a domain name for Final Fantasy XIII-3 on September 7, 2011, but announced no development plans. A representative of Square Enix noted that the filing is to protect the Final Fantasy XIII intellectual property and does not indicate a new title. On September 1, 2012, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII was announced, said to be the last installment in the story of Lightning.
Staff Voice cast
Cocoon Inhabitants (English version) Alex Fernandez, Barbara Goodson, Cam Clarke, Cathy Cavadini, Cindy Robinson, Daisy Tormé, Darran Norris, Dwight Schultz, Erin Fitzgerald, Gideon Emery, James Arnold Taylor, Jeannie Ellas, Jill Talley, Joe Cappellietti, John Mariano, Kate Higgins, Kim Mai Guest, Kyle Hebert, Maile Flannegan, Michael Lindsey, Megan Hollingshead, Michael Sorich, Nika Futterman, Pat Fraley Phil Proctor, Robin Atkin Downes, Sam Riegel, Scott Menville, Steve Kramer, Tara Platt, Travis Willingham, Yuri Lowenthal April Stewart, Benjamin Diskin, Candi Milo, Chris Edgerly, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Dante Basco, David Rasner, Eden Riegel, Fred Tatasciore, Hynden Walch, JB Blanc, Jessica DiCicco, Jim Ward, John DiMaggio, Kari Wahlgren, Keith Silverstein, Kirk Thornton, Liam O'Brien, Masasa Moyo, Michael Gough, Mickey Cheetham, Neil Kaplan, Nolan North, Patrick Seitz, Robbie Rist, Roger Craig Smith, Scott MacDonald, Sherry Lynn, Steve Van Wormer.
XIII is the first Final Fantasy title with European packaging artwork that does not only feature the game's logo, but the main protagonist as well.
PlayStation 3
- 1 GB RAM
- 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
- Windows® XP SP2 or later
A listing of the characters that join your party in Final Fantasy XIII (FF13, FFXIII, PlayStation 3, PS3, Xbox 360) and their roles and Eidolons.
The six main playable characters of Final Fantasy XIII are Lightning (Ali Hillis/Maaya Sakamoto), the main protagonist of the game, a former soldier and older sister to Serah; [29] [30] Snow Villiers (Troy Baker/Daisuke Ono), Serah's fiancé and leader of NORA, a paramilitary group; [31] Oerba Dia Vanille (Georgia van Cuylenburg/Yukari Fukui ...
