Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
As Lightning, it is your mission to save souls so they may be brought to a new world. However, with only thirteen days remaining, not everyone can be saved. Armed with all-new weapons, player customization and…
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Square Enix 1st Production Department, released 21 November 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 40 hrs to finish.
What Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Enix 1st Production Department and released in 2013. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Tools.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Five hundred years after the events of Final Fantasy XIII-2, the world of Nova Chrysalia is slowly dying and stands only thirteen days from its end, its people rendered ageless and childless by the chaos unleashed long ago. Lightning, the warrior heroine of the earlier games, is awoken from crystal stasis by the god Bhunivelze and named the Savior, tasked with freeing humanity's souls from their emotional burdens and guiding them to a new world before time runs out. Traveling across four distinct regions and reuniting with old friends and adversaries who each carry deep sorrow, Lightning races against the doomsday clock while uncovering the truth behind the world's fate and the god's true…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is the 164th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy IV: The After Years in 2013. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 117 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 40 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz Dual Core CPU, 1500 MB RAM and NVIDIA® Geforce® 8800GT / ATI Radeon™ HD 4770 VRAM 512MB or later. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 22GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII launched on 21 November 2013, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition and XCOM: Enemy Within. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, XCOM: Enemy Within.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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