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September 19, 2009

Final Fantasy XIII Prequel Announced: Episode Zero

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Written by: Dalibor Dimovski
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Just what we need… ANOTHER Final Fantasy game, right?  Sheesh!  These things are announced every few months only to take 7.2 years to — wait, what was that?  This ISN’T a game?  It’s an episodic online novelization of the story leading up to the events that take place in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Versus?  Hmm.  So you’re telling me that this is something I have to read and not play?  Whoa whoa whoa… Is this the Stone Ages?  Well Square website, I GUESS I’ll enjoy it.  At least I won’t have to wait half-way into the life cycle of the PlayStation 4 to enjoy it.

Announced via the “special” section of the Final Fantasy XIII official website (in Japanese) is the episodic “prequel” (in Japanese) to the release of Final Fantasy XIII in December (in Japan).  The first episode in the series, titled Episode Zero, releases shortly.  At least, that’s what my rough understanding of the text below (in Japanese) leads me to believe.

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About the Author

Dalibor Dimovski
Dali is the co-founder of SideQuesting, as well as the co-Founder of CarDesignFetish and the founder of MakLink. A long-time blogger/web-designer, Dali currently works as a full-time creative Product Designer in the automotive industry and a deejay. His passions are music, contemporary and classic art, video games (naturally), and his family.




  • http://youtube.com/solidkwon kwonstein

    Ah, so it’s just a novel. I think this is actually a very smart marketing move of SquareEnix. Plenty of popular western games have already done this (i.e. Halo, Mass Effect, World of Warcraft) and if done right, these kind of tie-ins can really connect the fanbase closer to the games and their lores. With there already being like at least three FFXIII games in development (FFXIII, FF VS XIII, FFXIII Agito), not to mention FFXIV, it would have been too overwhemling if this was yet another FFXIII game announcement.

  • bluedragonda2nd

    ok my sister would like to see this stuff she is a big rpg fan