WhileFinal Fantasy XIIIis most assuredly a current generation game fromall we’ve seendevelopment on it started before the PS3 (or the 360) were around. In two new books that Square Enix has published they’reshowing offa lot of the early work on the game and that work was all done on the PS2 with assets from previousFinal Fantasygames.
you may check out the screens and artwork below. I know the cartoonish look on some of the characters is simply because it was easier to do while they were designing the kinks of the gameplay, but it does look pretty sweet. I thinkZeldaproved that a major shift in art style for a game series welcomes nothing but anger and derision no matter how good the game is, but this different look does make you wonder how differentFFcould be. It’s cool to get a peek at how long this game has actually been in development and what the early plans were.
