FFXIII Demo

[zenith]

[you cant summon yet in the demo..

and during gameplay, i didnt see lightning's hand wobling as she run around so...

yes. the attacks now are of variety attacks.

you can combined each different attack moves and excecute them all at once.

notice that if you seen the vid of the demo, there are 3 ATB gauges.. you choose 3 different commands to be put into the active time.. after the command or commands are selected, and when all 3 of the ATB gauges are filled up, you either execute the commands by pressing the triangle button, or the circle button.

if you select one command you only need to wait for one ATB gauge to fill up, and only can execute it using triangle.

so, if u used 3 different attacks all at once, lightning will start attacking 3 times simultaneously. even when you hit the same attack command 3 times into the ATB gauge, the each attack will look different.

[Ephemeral]

God that sounds so cool!
Really cutting edge and well thought out too by the sounds of it.
So if you want to do a single attack, you can. And if you want a string of attacks that works too.
How does that interact with each chracter? Can each one have 3 attacks and then they all link up if they are attacking a single enemy?
What about an MP gauge? I can't remember if I saw one.

[zenith]

now i wish they did that... (linking up different attacks with each other)

but they did'nt...

which is dissapointing a little...

and in the demo, you can only control one character in battle.

though i dont know yet if that still applies to the completed version... but i hear you still only control one...

they should let the players control all though...
like you said... combining all of the different character attacks should make a more interesting battle gameplay...

there isnt any MP gauge in this version of FF..

in fact, you dont use MP.

instaed, there are numbers for every attack.

in the completed version, there will be 4 ATB gauges that you could fill up with attacks... (i heard you could add more, when you level up...)

depending on the number that comes with the attack, for example...

there are 4 empty ATB gauges...

"Blizzard" has the number: 3. (so that means, it cost you to fill 3 ATB gauges... that means you have only one left that you could fill up. but that gauge can only be filled with an attack that has the number: 1 .

[Ephemeral]

Wow. That's different.
So if you want to use magic then you have to use up all of your available attacks.
It had better be worth it.

I wonder why Square didn't think to co-ordinate the characters attacks so they could make a chain.
That would be wicked.

[zenith]

ya.. squareenix should have done that..

but in game, the other characters are controled by A.I.
they attack whenever they want.
even while the character that you are controlling is attacking...

so, there are still chain attacks involved.

in fact, there is a chain gauge at the right habd corner above the screen...

but in the demo, when it filled up, nothing happened.

[Ephemeral]

I bet that's being held back for when the game's released.
It also sound weird that you can't control the other characters. I bet that changes when the game comes out.
It would be a bit boring if you couldn't control them. What if they have a wicked attack. You'd want to be able to use it when you want rather than just watching it.

[zenith]

ya.

i agree.

lets hope that all the characters can be controlable within the battle gameplay.

[Ephemeral]

Well they don't want to give away too much too early so I bet you weren't able to control the other characters so you couldn't get into the stats.
That's the usual reason why they won't let you control all the characters straight off. Then when you can use them, you get all excited.

[zenith]

yup.. thats how Squareenix works alright...

haha