Final Fantasy XIII Demo to be 2 Hours?!?!
Written by Chris Rah Osiris 
Famitsu has just made my day. I was excited by the prospect of having a Final Fantasy XIII demo. Packaging it with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, is like offering me a free bowl of gumbo with the purchase of jumbalaya. This issue of Famitsu reveals that this will not be a short demo.
The demo could be 2 hours! 2 hours! 2 hours! That is about half as long as the latest Ratchet and Clank game. It is being reported that the demo will be longer than Advent Children which is at least 101 minutes long. The film will feature additional footage which could easily make Advent Children 2 hours long itself. Here are some details about the demo:
- The demo will be set in a variation of the beginning of the game.
- The demo will not be region locked. (PS3 games are region free and the demo will be on a separate Blu-Ray). Importers should rejoice.
Advent Children will be released in March 2009. Remember that this demo has only been confirmed for Japan. Hopefully the rest of the world will be able to try out the demo as well. (Without importing that is.)
August 16, 2008 at 12:53 pm
wow.
August 16, 2008 at 1:16 pm
That is freakin amazing! 2 hours!?
August 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm
2 hours!? That seems pretty long for a demo. Are you sure there wasn’t a mistranslation?
August 16, 2008 at 4:13 pm
They had better release an English ACC around that time, I’m not wasting my money importing a movie I can’t watch just for a demo I won’t understand.
August 16, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Holy shit.
August 16, 2008 at 4:33 pm
holy poop!
August 16, 2008 at 4:37 pm
That’s INCREDIBLE NEWS!
…for Japan.
August 16, 2008 at 5:31 pm
sooo… the game will be huge isn’t? lol
August 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I’m all gitty now… I might have to import this if we don’t get word for a US demo.
August 16, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Okay so do Jap-Blu Ray Movies work on NA machines? Or is it only the demo that will work? Cus i already have the advent children DVD.
August 16, 2008 at 9:37 pm
They said it was going to be longer than Advent Children which means…. about 2 hours would be a good minimum on that.
August 16, 2008 at 9:48 pm
@Whuts Gud
Movies are usually region locked, but games never are.
So its possibly the BD won’t work but the demo always will.
August 16, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Japan and the US are in the same Blu-Ray region.
Region 1 if you were wondering.
August 16, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ooohh.. I forgot about that Chris. Glad you mentioned that.
Blu-Ray Discs
1. North and South America, India, Southeast Asia, Japan - Region A
2. Europe, Middle East, Australia - Region B
3. Russia, China - Region C
August 17, 2008 at 8:16 am
2 hours?Very long for an demo.But it doesnt interest me I will sell my ps3 because im saving money to buy an really good PC when diablo 3 releases.
August 26, 2008 at 10:50 am
I dont think you need a VERY good pc to run diablo 3, you can probably settle for a 600 dollar pc in 2008 -09 that can run d3 well.