Final Fantasy XIII TGS 2009 Trailer in English and Japanese

We’re a little late to the party posting these up, but they’re still worth watching. Prior to this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Squeenix hosted a Final Fantasy XIII premiere event in Japan. Industry coverage of it was mainly limited to people blogging about how awesome the new FFXIII trailer they showed was, followed by rambling, half-nonsensical attempts to describe it. In the end, it almost always came back to something along the lines of “Man, I wish you could see it!”

Well the trailer finaly got a full public viewing at TGS 2009, albeit in Japanese (naturally). For those without enough ranks in the Language: Moonspeak skill, it was just a lot of pretty moving pictures coupled with some vague notion of what was going on plot-wise, based on the emotions conveyed by the characters.

A hastily subbed version hit the net soon after, which at least gave Westerners a better idea of what was going on. Square followed that up by releasing a proper dub, using the localized English voice track. Now everything makes a lot more sense.

We’ve also included the original Japanese language version after the jump for those who want to experience its “pure” form. After all, as anime snobs have been telling us for years, the Japanese language track is always superior. Enjoy!

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