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Special Box: White Magic – we don’t know a great deal about the magic spells available for FFXIII’s playable characters, but we do have some basic info that gives an impression of the direction the game is taking. As ever, elemental magic will play a big part in battles; Fire (base on flames), Blizzard (icy), Thunder (loud), and Aerial (strong wind). There’s also brand of magic called Firaga, which takes Fire magic to a further level. Enabling simultaneous attack against all enemies. In a more general sense, Lightning and her comrades will have four key options available to them in battle: Attack, Shoot (which makes use of gunblade), Defend, V strike (which can affect Overclock and Limit Hi Specials).

..Great examples of Square’s non-RPG related abilities).

            Battle are key as ever, and it’s good to see that a real-time model has been adopted in FFXIII.What Toriyama didn’t go into, but which we’re already informed about, is FFXIII Over clock system. Over clock will enable the payer in your control to go hyper, for want of a better term. Once the circular gauge (pictured in the top right corner of FFXIII battle shots) is filled. And while your character is in this state, he/she will be able to move much more quickly than usual while characters in the field have their movement slowed to a crawl.

The game’s setting is still largely under wraps, but from having been to the recently jump Festa event we do know that much of the game will be set on a floating island called Cocoon. A separate world, used as a refuge for those who are evicted form cocoon called Pulse. The game’s plot seems to be more political than most other FF games, with a focus on how government of Cocoon and Pulse treating its citizens in its domain. Lightning and other controllable characters will no doubt spend much of their time fighting against evil elements of this government