Final Fantasy XIII Trailer Looks Pretty, Reveals Nothing, and You’ll Probably Buy It Anyways
I’ve been trying to figure out something to say about this Final Fantasy XIII trailer, but it’s so nonsensical as to defy analysis. It’s clearly an FF game, what with its silly vehicles, random glowing symbols in the air and impossibly over-designed fantasy world, but there’s no gameplay shown, because Square knows that we stopped by Final Fantasy for the gameplay back in the SNES day. I am highly disturbed by the little flying clown squirrel, or whatever that thing is. But like all FF games, I’ll be buying it no matter how I feel about the product. sigh.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.