Game Informer have conducted a post release interview with Final Fantasy XIII's producer Yoshinori Kitase. In the interview, Kitase was questioned about about the development of Crystal Tools and when asked what he would change, he said they should have concentrated on improving existing technology rather than creating an entirely new engine.
"Tools and engines improve through a process of trial and error and countless revisions, and that’s what really makes them more efficient."
Kitase was also questioned about the rest of the Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation. When asked whether there are more games in the compilation planning to be announced he answered "Please look forward to future announcements." Even though we've had evidence to believe this before, that pretty much confirms it.
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Game Informer
In the issue of Famitsu on sale Thursday, there is an interview with Final Fantasy series character designer Tetsuya Nomura.
Whilst much of the interview is in regards to his upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep game on the PSP, the magazine takes a moment to ask him about Square Enix's plans for this year's Tokyo Game Show, with Nomura responding "We will not be showing new images for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Final Fantasy Agito XIII or The 3rd Birthday (Parasite Eve)." This would seem to mean no new screenshots, no new concept art and - much to the chagrin of many, I'm sure - no new trailers.
This hardly comes as a surprise, with Square Enix now focusing on promoting Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Final Fantasy XIII for their Winter releases. Such is the nature of marketing.
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Tetsuya Nomura has once again been interviewed by Japanese gaming magazine Dengeki and within the article are some interesting new details concerning all the Fabula Nova Crystallis titles. Here they are summarised.
Nomura is no longer involved in the development of Final Fantasy XIII. All the character design is finished so he's moved onto working with his own projects.
He's currently concentrating on Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII.
The battle system for Agito has evolved since we last saw it.
Even though Agito is on the PSP, they're aiming to make it the pinnacle" of this handheld generation.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII is being developed by many members from the Final Fantasy VII team who are working well together.
The team isn't making any compromises so the quality of the finished product should be great.
They're currently testing the battle system and map gimmicks in Versus.
Versus will have a day and night cycle.
Nomura wants to show the result of leaving a character on their own for a long period of time.
He asks us to be patient for Versus information. Once he gets to a certain point he'll have a surprise for us. (Versus won't be shown at E3 almost 100% confirmed).
Final Fantasy XIII will have new screenshots and a trailer revealed at E3.
Thanks to our forum member
Cagalli for finding this.
Both the Final Fantasy Agito XIII and the Final Fantasy Versus XIII Trailers have worked their way onto the internet from the Limited Edition of Advent Children Complete. I've added both of them to our trailer pages ready for you all to enjoy watching over and over. Sorry it took so long but my Laptop adapter decided to blow up.
Also for all of those interested, most pre-orders of Advent Children Complete have been shipped today and the rest should ship tomorrow. It looks like Play-Asia still has copies in stock so if you're still interested, buy it while you can!
Final Fantasy Versus XIII FFXIII Demo Trailer
Final Fantasy Agito XIII FFXIII Demo Trailer
The CLOUD Message scans have already surfaced on the internet a day before the books official release. It contains nine Final Fantasy XIII Compilation scans including "Creators Messages" for all three of the games as well as what looks like a drawing board showing character artwork, environment designs and even a world map. So out of this what's new?
Final Fantasy XIIIWell we can confirm a very blurry new character for Final Fantasy XIII which I assume has been intentionally blurred as everything else is clear.
Someone has drawn a character doing 99999 damage which possibly confirms they intend the game to break the damage limit.
A new picture of Cocoon can be seen as well as a new area we haven't seen before,.
Final Fantasy Versus XIIIGameplay! Actual gameplay. It's very small but I don't think anyone can dispute what it is. There are a few images showing Noctis playing through several areas. One image shows him in an area with two clones of himself. I assume that's just for development.
There are lots of new environments to which range from the cities to mountainous plains.
Final Fantasy Agito XIIIA full view of the world map can be seen.
Chocobos are confirmed and they look like their counterparts in Final Fantasy X.
Artwork of walking tanks reminiscent of Final Fantasy VI can be seen in the top right.
The artwork for a new character is also in the bottom right partly covered by some strange symbols.
Lastly some more new environments can be seen in two images.
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ameblo.jp 
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