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This year's 28th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that the character Snow Villiers is also returning in Square Enix's Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII role-playing game sequel. Square Enix revealed through a trailer in January that the game will ship worldwide for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles this fall.
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A bunch of new screenshots have been released for Square Enix’s Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, and they show off the Dead Dunes. You know, because the dunes are dead.
Take a look at them down in the gallery below. The game is scheduled to release in the third quarter of this year for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Lightning Returns: Carrying the adventure solo as Final Fantasy's 'first female protagonist'

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Well, I guess that settles it. The other characters (Sahz, Vanille, Fang, Snow, Serah, Hope) are a minimal zero requirement in the FINAL XII game. RIP.

Lightning is Final Fantasy's first female lead, at least according to Square Enix. This may come as a surprise to fans of Final Fantasy VI, which ostensibly starred Terra, the amnesiac magic user who gradually discovers her roots as an esper. But Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII director and series veteran Motomu Toriyama (who came in on Final Fantasy VII, it should be mentioned) has an explanation.
"We feel that every person within the party [in Final Fantasy VI] is a main character, but we feel Lightning is very impactful as the main female protagonist in the Final Fantasy series." Toriyama says. "Not only is she the first female protagonist, she is very powerful, cool, calm, and collected. So we believe that is another attractive feature of hers."
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Well, I guess that settles it. The other characters (Sahz, Vanille, Fang, Snow, Serah, Hope) are a minimal zero requirement in the FINAL XII game. RIP.