When developer SquareSoft was struggling to make an impression on the world back in 1987 while bills mounted up and the world was in the grip of Mario fever, it looked like there was little option but to wave the white flag. Legend has it, they were on the brink of closing and sending everyone home. Then they released one final game - prophetically called Final Fantasy - and held their breath. The game proved to be a smash success and the rest, as they say, is history. Some 20 years later, the
"Men, or mayhap gods?" That was one of the questions posed in the new version of the Final Fantasy XIII trailer shown off at Tokyo game show. What does it mean? It's the random sort of question that lends more mood than meaning to what followed it... not surprising, considering the game itself is still pretty much a total mystery even now.
We say "version" of the trailer, because it was only slightly expanded from the original one debuted five months ago at the E3 show. While we didn't learn