The lights are on
Following this morning’s news of retailer-specific pre-order bonuses for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix has announced the availability of a demo. You can play it on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, but the publisher is incentivizing the latter.
PlayStation 3 downloads come with the Utsusemi Garb DLC, which includes the Heavenly Fan weapon and Kaminari (“lightning” in Japanese) shield. If you miss out on the demo, you’ll be able to purchase the DLC later with other costumes.
The demo takes place in Snow’s Yusnaan palace. If you complete the demo (on either system) and submit your battle score during the final battle against Zaltys, you’ll unlock the Siegfried outfit when the game arrives.
The demo is available now on Xbox 360 and later today on PlayStation 3. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be out on February 11, 2014.
Our TakeThis is great news for those that have been following Lightning’s adventure on PlayStation 3. It’s unfortunate that there isn’t something comparable on Xbox 360, but those interested in the Utsusemi Garb should be able to download it (for a fee) later on. At least both platforms get the Siegfried bonus just for playing and submitting a score.
Not much of a fan of newer Final Fantasy games, but I guess the incentive on PS3 is enough for me to at least try it out.
Ah, well I can't try it yet. It's exclusive to gold members at the moment. Never quite understood why they did that with some demos on the 360...
Hah. Free costume. Final Fantasy XIII: Mega Ultimate Costume Quest Extreme Saga Bonzai.
Square Enix, you're cracking me up.
I tried playing the Japanese demo...but I had no frickin' clue what was going on. I could have been sacrificing millions of babies for all I knew.
I am on the fence regarding this game. However, I am excited to play this demo. I want to love this game, and hopefully, the demo will impress.
Lightning yay! Way to make my sick day in bed happy again SE :3
Cool, I've never played a Final Fantasy game so I might give this a go when I get out of class.
Holy Moley! I guess I'm kind of on the fence about Square's dlc policies with these recent Final Fantasy games. On one hand I don't really like being nickel and dimed by games, but on the other I thought the arena boss battles for XIII-2 were very fun and worthwhile. I can't wait to download the demo and check out the battle system, which I believe will be very similar to paradigms. XIII-2 did improve on the "fluidity" of switching paradigms which for me greatly improved the overall gameplay experience. I think XIII is just as good as any of the other FF games, and have been greatly anticipating the final entry. I think this game will start off what I anticipate to be a great year for rpg gaming.
Wow, I wasn't expecting this at all but it's very cool of SE. Regardless of how they've been doing as a company in the past years, they've really been on the ball with demos lately. Bravely Default had the demo-only side quest and now these costumes.
Though I do like that a lot, I'm not a fan of how they're favoring PS3 with the extra content. I understand Sony is much bigger than Microsoft in Japan but the console favoritism got old a long time ago.
Oh man, I'm gonna miss out on the demo, but I hope can get the DLC. I'm going try the Demo later.
Glad to hear it, better download it soon.