Shipping Cafe #07

Final Fantasy XIII Series

Pairing: HopexLightning

History: Hopurai is my undying otp of the Final Fantasy XIII Series. I first started shipping them in the lst game despite the 7 year age difference, but in terms of shipping them romantically it was down the line when Hope was a little older say 18 years old, for example. Also, throughout the lst game you could really see Lightning's and Hope's relationship grow and develop right in front of your eyes, and I couldn't help but see that they had developed a special bond together. Now, when FFXIII-2 came out I was overjoyed with the news that Hope was a full-grown adult and was now 24/27. So, now I could properly ship Hope and Lightning together romantically, but my shipper's heart broke a little when I saw Hope's render for LR and I was very devastated in more ways than one. It was only thanks to the strong support and love of my fellow shipmates that I was able to overcome this devastating set-back thanks in part to hopurai dojinshis, fanfics, and fan-arts. So, till this day I still strongly continue to ship hopurai and will continue to do so and nothing or no one is going to stop me.

The Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy

Overview

I am going to be giving my overall thoughts on the Final Fantasy XIII Series of games so far.

Final Fantasy XIII

This game first came out in Japan on December 17, 2009 and like a lot of people I was interested in the next-gen Final Fantasy games. Of course, I didn't really understand what was going on at the time because I don't speak Japanese, but the game was intriguing to me and looked amazing. At first, I thought that Snow and Lightning were the main romantic leads, but it turned out that they were not and in the end I was glad. Everything from the story, to the settings, characters, music pieces, and game-play mechanics were refreshing. FFXIII was the sole game that made me buy a ps3 and it holds a special place in my heart as it is also my 1st ps3 game. This game gets a lot of hate especially in the states for little to no reason in my opinion, but overall it is a solid jrpg.

Final Fantasy XIII-2

To be honest, I wasn't really excepting there to be a sequel to FFXIII because I thought that the story wrapped up pretty nicely at the end of FFXIII, but never the less I was excited at the news since I immensely enjoyed FFXIII. This game made it's debut in Japan on December 15, 2011 and this game was a waste of mass potential. At the time when you bought this game you bought an incomplete game, and you had to buy the story dlc to view the complete ending of the game and many people were pissed and upset about this. Also a number of people were not happy that Lightning was not the main playable character, and that she was just a supporting character. Personally, for me I liked the variety of different music present in this game compared to FFXIII, but FFXIII was still the better game overall between the two.

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

This game is set to hit stores in Japan on November 21, 2013 and still not very much is known about it and it's contents, but this game just may well be the best game out of the trilogy. So far with all of the information that has come out for the game it seems that it's heading in the right direction, and also seems to be harder than the previous two entries in the series. I'll just have to reserve my full judgement until the game comes out and I play it and experience the game for myself.

Shipping Cafe #03

HopexVanille

The Hope and Vanille ship or as I like to call it Hanille is a ship that I strongly dislike and utterly despise. In the game I didn't picture anything romantic between them and from what I've gathered from the game they had an older sister/younger brother relationship going on in my eyes. I personally think that Vanille is a little immature for Hope's taste and Hope and Vanille don't compliment each other well.

Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII Thoughts

I know I'm jumping on the train late with this, but I've been so busy that I didn't have any time to post my thoughts on this, so without further ado here are my thoughts on this upcoming game in the Final Fantasy XIII Franchise.

If you've been following along like I have and have played the two earlier installments of the Final Fantasy XIII games then you kinda could see that this was coming. For me personally, I genuinely enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2, but I enjoyed FFXIII over it's sequel for reasons that I think should be obvious. I can happily say that I'm glad that the Final Fantasy XIII Saga will hopefully(fingers crossed)  be getting a proper conclusion and the gamer won't be trolled by Motomu Toriyama again.

From the information that I've gathered about the game so far here are my pros and cons.

Cons

• We will only be playing as Lightning now don't get me wrong I like Lightning as a character and all, but one of the fun things in the Final Fantasy Universe was travelling with a party or group of people.
• The time limit and the whole clock aspects. I don't really like being on a time limit in RPG's or games in general because that leaves little time for exploration.

Pros

• Familiar characters will be returning from the previous games like Hope, etc.
• Lightning will have a lot of customization with outfits, abilities and weapons.
• The art style and concepts for the areas look really awesome.

Concluding Thoughts

I'm excited for this game, can't wait until Square Enix releases more info about the game and will more than likely be picking up this game on it's release day.