FINAL FANTASY Versus XIII - All Trailers [HD Remastered]

it’s insane that no matter how many years had passed, some of us will never forget about this unreleased atmosphere. The eerie and enchanting meeting between Stella and Noctis, the dark atmosphere of the sceneries and the theme of Somnus playing just felt so right with it, those meaning behind the Shakespeare quotes whether it is relevant to the story, how the plot is going to take a dark turn. I hope that someday, maybe in the future, we will get a chance to play the true Final Fantasy Versus XIII that Nomura envisions it to be. It still pains me that Stella never got to call Noctis by his nickname or show him around Tenebrae.

This game was first officially revealed back in 2006. It's been almost 2 DECADES and there's still so many of us clinging on to what could have been. Thank you for remastering these trailers. You did a phenomenal job.

As someone who enjoyed 15 for what it was, this video makes me super glad that I didn't even know about Versus 13 until well after I beat 15

Nomura's vision for this game would've made it a top 3 ff for me. It breaks my heart he left the project.

This game will forever live rent free in my head.

What we didn't know at the time was these were actually Kingdom Hearts trailers 🗿

The dinner party with Noct and Stella is still my favorite one. They had a better interaction in a trailer than noct and luna did in an entire game. Not to mention the idea of Noct actually being in Insomnia during the invasion. It would've been so cool to fight an uphill battle and try to escape the city with your life.

I loved that Noctis and Stella were ennemies and love interests at the same time. This looked like a so much more interesting game. Aranea ´s design looks like the premices of Lightning in Lightning Returns.

So many reasons why this version stood out and could have been so great. -The tone of Gotham City -The game play like something between kingdom hearts and drakengard -The political vibes like AoT -the Cinematics like FF13 -the combat like FF7AC It might have seemed edgy af, but it felt so dark, honest, and unforgiving. 😫

Versus XIII's development was held back by the development of the Crystal Tools engine. When that engine proved unable to handle Versus's wider environments, it was held back /again/ by the development of the Luminous Engine. In his capacity as director, Tetsuya Nomura ultimately settled on internally-developed code with only the lighting taken from Luminous, to get the project on schedule. Both these engines were pet projects of SQEX then-president Yoichi Wada... but he had already spent a shitload of money on Crystal Tools and assigned it to two MMOs, so he wouldn't accept that his projects had catastrophic consequences for the company. Thus, he blamed Nomura. In Japan, it's considered bad PR for a company to actively fire an employee or remove them from a position — so executives usually bully employees into quitting by forcing them into precarious positions or demoting them. Why is this important? Wada had the entire development staff replaced with the devs of Final Fantasy Type-0 and Hajime Tabata assigned as co-director, with the specific goal of forcing Nomura to quit. Nomura was never consulted about the Final Fantasy XV retool. What's especially callous is, Tabata had been good friends with Nomura since the early 2000s — Nomura even recommended Tabata to direct Type-0 to give him some work after finishing Before Crisis: FFVII, and they co-directed Kingdom Hearts coded. But Tabata refused to cooperate with Nomura and overrode him at every creative opportunity — which made Nomura feel deeply betrayed and drove him to quit in December 2013, nine months before the official announcement was made. To reiterate: Tetsuya Nomura was not consulted about the FFXV retool. It makes no sense to blame him for anything wrong with that game. Nomura has suffered too much to let his legacy be defined by a scapegoating gambler and a backstabbing opportunist.

I still can't get ovet the fact that Stella would be forced to fight with Noctis for the crystal in a situation that if she fails her kingdom dies and if Noctis fails his kingdom will face the same fate. She had more chemistry with Noctis than Luna in the entire FF XV story. Let's not mention the fact that she will be a fierce warrior like Noctis was. So it would be a tragic and incredible battle. What a shame... I will never forget this.

there is more chemistry and on screen (conscious and alive) interaction between stella and noctis in these trailers than what luna and noctis had in the actual game as adults 😬

My heart won't let go. Kingdom Heart III's secret ending and the Re Mind ending really feel like a gut punch.

Not only was seeing this HD compilation of Versus XIII trailers in my recommended a big nostalgia trip, but it’s also my first time seeing the very first trailer ever.

This brings back so many memories. I spent countless hours in my teens theorising what this game would be like, with all the amazing action and emotional moments. I probably came up with multiple entire games in my head just from these trailers. Even if I wasn't that happy with 15, the joy that I got from imagining myself playing it one day was enough to make the wait worthwhile. To me, this is the best example of the journey being better than the destination.

NEVER. FORGET. EVER. It WILL return, my friends. Mark my words.

Honestly, even though I never got to play Nomura's original vision for Versus 13, I still look back on these trailers as a fond memory of my childhood leading up to becoming an adult. Everything from the atmosphere, the music and ideas that were both showed and speculated made such an impact. I still remember being a kid on my old windows PC looking up anything I could online to get more information because I saw so much potential in this story and world. I still put well over 150 hours into Final Fantasy 15, but I still feel I would have easily doubled that if it was Versus 13 instead. I'm glad some of these ideas are coming to KH4. But deep down Versus 13 will always be alive in my heart.

"My heart won't let go" Same here Noctis, same here... And don't get me wrong, I like XV, I got all the DLC and all the trophies and even teared up with the last Camping scene but Versus is just different, the atmosphere, the characters and their interactions all are so interesting. Noctis and Stella show more chemistry and interaction with one conversation in these trailers than Noctis and Luna in a full game. Someone should really make a documentary about Versus XIII/XV like the one Noclip did for FFXIV, maybe that way we could know what happened and what Nomura had in mind for the game and maybe show some unreleased stuff like the 130 pages Storyboard Roberto Ferrari did in 2013 depicting the whole story they had back then from start to finish. ~Sigh~ I hope Nomura actually does something with Verum Rex even if it won't be what Versus would have been, at least the feeling it gives is similar to these trailers.

I will never forgive that we got robbed of this masterpiece. Everytime I re-watch all the trailers my heart drops and I feel very heavy and sad. I hope Nomura gets a chance to finish this at some point or is able to make something similar. Not fair , the shit that happened to him during that time.

My heart still longs for this game I don't mean FF XV I mean the og Final Fantasy Versus XIII the way it's creator Tetsuya Nomura intended. I been waiting for vsxiii since 2007 when I first watched the trailer during visual arts class and I was so impressed by it I googled this game daily for years to get Intel about noctis aka mysterious badass what I called him back then. It's trailers including the 2013 E3 trailer are so badass that they still impressed me to this day. I made so many friends who longed for this game just like me as well it influenced my imagination. Thank you for remastering all of FF VSXIII trailers for it's fans to remember for eons to come.