Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo hits next week.

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Do you have a nagging need to play androgynous characters and watch dramatic cut-scenes featuring big swords? Then you might want to be hanging around your PS3 or Xbox on the 11th of January. Square Enix are dropping a Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo a few weeks before the release of the full game, which is due at the beginning of February 2012.

No details on the Demo’s content has been released but the game has been out in Japan since December. Unsurprisingly, it received ‘perfect’ scores from the Japanese gaming media. The first Western review by The Official Xbox Magazine gave it a 9 out of 10. Commenting that Final Fantasy XIII-2 “fixes pretty much every point of contention” from its predecessor. Which sounds promising. 

I played the tutorial of FFXIII ( ie: the first 12hrs!) and it just beat me down till I couldn’t play it any more. From what has been reported sizable changes have been made to XIII-2, including the Paradigm party battle system.  I would love FFXII-2 to fill the empty space of a modern next gen JRPG, as this genre has been lost in the wilderness for many years.  Frankly I’m not holding my breath, but I will be downloading the demo.

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