Relive Final Fantasy XIII in a retro style in this new Lightning Returns promo

by Alex Donaldson on 29 January, 2014

Depending on your stance on the Final Fantasy XIII sub-series of games, you're going to find Square Enix's latest promotional video either incredibly awesome or utterly blasphemous - but we happen to think it's pretty cool.

The video re-tells the story so far - events seen in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2 - in the style of the classic Super Nintendo Final Fantasy titles, complete with retro graphics, not-entirely-accurate but still awesome use of SNES-style sound fonts for music & sound effects and a neat little sense of humour about parts of the game.

Check out the trailer below. Lightning Returns is available for pre-order now, and is out in two weeks' time.