Every other member of staff that got credited in this trailer worked on a Kingdom Hearts game. Not news to us, as Tetsuya ‘most of my characters all look the damn same’ Nomura revealed that the KH team was working on this game long before there was a trailer. Which means there’s a high likely hood that Versus XIII will play just like a Kingdom Hearts game; except with out big footed teenagers and Disney. Organization XIII could well make an appearance though. There were enough floating blades, long corridors and black cloaks shown in the trailer. Square have become the masters of unoriginality and re-hash, so expect to see some strong Kingdom Hearts elements in this game.

Versus XIII is looking great though. Because this trailer not only showed enough for us to spin our own webs as to what the story may center around and who the characters may be, but it causes intrigue. From this trailer I gathered that…

• The main guy is rich.
• The main guy and his friends are big fans of KAT-TUN and The Backstreet boys.
• The girl squaring off against our blue haired hero is probably a good girl – possibly a princess who fights our hero due to a misunderstanding.
• The guys all sat in the conference room are possibly some form of powerful counselors, who will end up double crossing one another and hatching plans for personal gain and power which will ultimately corrupt them.
• The game centers around a crystal, because Square Enix said so.
• The game will probably feature a secret trailer to Kingdom Hearts III.

There! It may all be bullshit, but it’s something. Versus XIII’s trailer showed us enough we can formulate some ideas, unlike XIII’s – which just showed sections of gameplay which annoyingly gave absolutely nothing away and frankly, caused me not to care or even get remotely excited.

Versus XIII was always the game I was more drawn to out of the Final Fantasy: Fabula nova crystallis dealio. I just hope it doesn’t end up playing like some slap-dash version of Kingdom Hearts set in a new universe. It’d be such a shame if it did. Unless of course it caused the game to seriously rock as a result. If the main hero can do all the shit he did in the trailer, in-game; it would be pretty nifty and cool. Although I doubt he’ll be able to. And even if he is, you’d probably have to level him up to do it all.

I’m just waiting for Square Enix to announce this for Xbox 360 and PC.