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Exactly 13 millennium has passed since the events of Lightning Returns, the age of the gods has passed, Bhunivelze is trapped, forever asleep yet awake in crystal stasis in the new Unseen Realm that is governed by both Caius Ballad and the very many incarnations of Yeul that exist, meanwhile, on the world that both Lightning and the rest of humanity live on created by Bhunivelze, a descendant of Lightning's with crimson coloured hair named "Thunder Farron" is living up to his great ancestor's legacy by somehow both strangely and mysteriously becoming a L'Cie, which should not be possible whatsoever, given that the Fal'Cie have all but faded away from the entire universe itself, it is during this time becoming a L'Cie that Thunder meets a Moogle from another dimension calling himself "Mog-13" and that Mog reveals himself to be Thunder's personal familiar and that he needs Thunder's help to save not only Mog-13's world but Thunder's world also, for the two worlds are in grave danger from a threat unlike any other, this threat is revealed to be a Cie'th that is conscious of it's current state yet has somehow been able to control its current state, not rampaging like all other Cie'th before it, this Cie'th calls itself "Vardanders" and that or "Var" or "Vardan" that both Thunder and others call Vardanders is trying to plunge both Thunder and Mog-13's worlds into both complete and utter darkness, it is trying to bring about what it calls "The Merge" and you see, by merging "Terra", the name of Thunder's world with "Gaia", the name of Mog-13's world, Vardanders believes that he can bring about a new age of Cie'th beings somehow and summon forth the return of Bhunivelze from his imprisoned crystal sleep, in order to correct humanity once more, as he was just trying to like before 13 millennium ago, now Thunder must somehow summon forth magic and with it's power, combat the forces that Vardanders sends to Terra, these forces bearing the exact same physical trait appearances and abilities of the creatures and/or monsters that used to live on Cocoon, Gran Pulse, Vahalla, Nova Chrysallia and so on, so forth, etc, despite being a L'Cie, Mog-13 refers to Thunder, as being what is known, as a "Novus L'Cie" and that out of all the Novus L'Cie that exist, there are only 13 of them to exist in existence, 6 in the world of Terra and 7 more in the world of Gaia to protect the latter, in other-words, 6 ordinary people have been chosen to defend Terra from the threat of Vardanders and his forces, they must bare their respective Novus L'Cie brands, appearing in the form of ordinary tattoos over parts of the human body, the benefaction of being a "Novus" for short is that they don't bare a Focus, other then the protection of their respective worlds, Novus L'Cie do not turn into crystal upon completing their respective Focus or turn into Cie'th when they fail the Focus that has been given to them, asides from the tattoos that appear on parts of their bodies, Novus also have inscribed on parts a number, the number indicates the rank in which a Novus L'Cie was made first, however, there is a difference between Terra Novus and Gaia Novus, normal numbers appear on Terra Novus L'Cie to coincide with the English language used on Terra whilst Gaia Novus L'Cie have roman numerals inscribed on their bodies since because they use Latin, as their language, the number of rank that appears on Thunder's forehead is the number 13 and that means that Thunder was the very last person to be made a Novus L'Cie, the very last person tasked with stopping the conscious Cie'th Vardanders and his master plan for bringing about back the return of Bhunivelze, the self proclaimed god of light, now, as the 13th vessel both chosen by and of destiny, Thunder must seek out the other 12 Novus L'Cie and altogether, they must stop the fate that Vardanders is imposing on them at all costs, the question is...where does Thunder start to look? who does he have to find in particular? the question and the adventure all begin...at the number: 13. (The story starts in the small rural outskirts town known, as "Mayhaven", here does technology not really prosper but still, people learn to get by pretty quickly and not to mention especially very easily too, it is here that all our Characters will gather and meet each other for the very 1st time.) Character Sheet: Name: Age: History: Personality: Appearance: Weapon: Sub Weapon: Novus L'Cie Rank: (If you wish to be a Novus, put down the number other then 13 that you wish to be, if you are a Terra Novus then you must put the rank down in English but if you are a Gaia Novus then you must put down the rank in roman numerals, know what i mean?) Novus Number Tattoo Location: (Which part of the body is the Novus number located on? like Thunder's is on his forehead for example.) English Voice Actor: (Just for fun.) Japanese Voice Actor: (Just for fun.) Theme Song: (Just for fun, preferably all songs come from the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy but you can have other songs if you like that exist outside the Lightning saga, however, event songs in the RP must strictly come from XIII, XIII-2 and Lightning Returns only, since this is a FFXIII RP after all.) (Please put down "Fabula Nova Crystallis" to show that you have read the rules and then your Character will be accepted.) (Characters that are still alive and exist within the universe like Caius for example, all video game Characters will only be portrayed by me and those that want particular Characters in mind, if a person calls for that Character first then another person can't have that very same Character, once called you must stay with that Character and if you have called for a Character from the games then you cannot have another one, only one per person each, however, you can create, as many original and new Characters, as you want appearing in this RP, this RP is meant to be called "The Phase Two Lightning Saga" or "The Second Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy", as i plan for this RP to be the start of three all brand new RPs all together tied to the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythology, expanding on its legends and other things like both FF Type-0 and vaguely FFXV did, here's hoping people will join.) Rules: No Godmodding. No Romance above age 16. No Swearing above age 16. Please stay true to the events that had occurred within the FFXIII trilogy. You can create, as many Characters, as you like, just not too many so that you lose track just in case. Have fun.

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The Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, dubbed The Lightning Saga is a hugely successful, acclaimed series of games Directed by the legendary Motomu Toriyama and Produced by the legendary Yoshinori Kitase. Rounding out the all-star development team is Art Director, Isamu Kamikokuryo, Graphics & VFX Director, Shintaro Takai and Lead Scenario Writer, Daisuke Watanabe with Composers, Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Mitsuto Suzuki and Game Design Director, Yuji Abe with many other talented developers. The games are available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows PC, iOS, Android & PlayStation Now. A collection for PlayStation 4 & Xbox One is rumoured.

PlayStation's holding a big sale on the PlayStation Store for Europe/Australia. Among the titles featured are many Final Fantasy games including Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. These are 50% off. Already got them? The 3rd Birthday, Lord of Arcana and many, many others are also on sale.

Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase's FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 was released on Windows PC via Steam a year ago and today I checked out the port. I have been running it on my laptop that is nearly 3 years old and has a fan in poor condition. My laptop is running Windows 10. The port looks amazing and runs pretty well. The Visual Works movies are perfect. Regular cutscenes and gameplay look great. Audio is also perfect. The PC version looks amazing overall and noticeably better than the PlayStation 3 version. There are plenty of settings/options in regards to graphics and controls as well. You can also change the language between English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean & Chinese for text. As for audio, English or Japanese. The port also supports 60fps while I did not check the frame rate, it did go quite high at times. But it did also go low a bit. All of the DLC is included for free with the exception of a few costumes due to licensing issues. The Steam achievements are of course based off the PlayStation 3 trophies & Xbox 360 achievements. There's also Steam Trading Cards. After playing it for awhile I found myself wanting to play more. Haha. The Windows PC version of FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 is a great port aside from frame rate issues and it doesn't cost much at all. 8/10

tri-Ace is taking what they learned from Motomu Toriyama's Final Fantasy XIII-2 in Star Ocean 5.

Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase's FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 has been released as its own dedicated app for iOS & Android devices. With this you can stream this amazing game to your smartphone or tablet. Yesterday, I installed it on my smartphone and was quite impressed. I am using an Australian Internet connection which are years behind countries like Japan & the United States and despite this I was able to stream the game to my smartphone quite well. At times the graphics did go quite low but generally the game kept looking pretty good. At times I was blown away as the game looked stunning. The controls also work quite well, I was able to play the game and win battles with little issue. However since my smartphone isn't that big some controls overlapped with each other but I managed to work around it easily. All audio was preserved and plays perfectly. The Android version runs pretty well on my smartphone so it must run really well in Japan. I hope to see the iOS & Android versions of FINAL FANTASY XIII and FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 released worldwide. I also look forward to LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII for iOS & Android as well. 8/10

Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy VIII and The Last Remnant are now available on Dive In. This joins Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy VII. Up next is Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Murdered: Soul Suspect. Dive In is now available on iOS & Android in Japan.