Final Fantasy XIII Prequel Announced: Episode Zero

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Just what we need… ANOTHER Final Fantasy game, right?  Sheesh!  These things are announced every few months only to take 7.2 years to — wait, what was that?  This ISN’T a game?  It’s an episodic online novelization of the story leading up to the events that take place in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Versus?  Hmm.  So you’re telling me that this is something I have to read and not play?  Whoa whoa whoa… Is this the Stone Ages?  Well Square website, I GUESS I’ll enjoy it.  At least I won’t have to wait half-way into the life cycle of the PlayStation 4 to enjoy it.

Announced via the “special” section of the Final Fantasy XIII official website (in Japanese) is the episodic “prequel” (in Japanese) to the release of Final Fantasy XIII in December (in Japan).  The first episode in the series, titled Episode Zero, releases shortly.  At least, that’s what my rough understanding of the text below (in Japanese) leads me to believe.

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