{"id":3793,"date":"2011-12-18T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2011-12-18T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T15:30:32","slug":"ff-xiii-2-rewarding-fff-xiii-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/12\/18\/ff-xiii-2-rewarding-fff-xiii-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"FF XIII-2 (Rewarding FFF XIII Fans)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the concept of getting <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/12\/16\/final-fantasy-xiii-2-qa-a-time-traveling-sequel-to-surpass-the-original\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/12\/16\/final-fantasy-xiii-2-qa-a-time-traveling-sequel-to-surpass-the-original\/', 'bonus goodies');\" target=\"_blank\">bonus goodies<\/a> as a \u2018reward\u2019 of sorts for playing previous versions of a game.  As long as the reward doesn\u2019t cause game balance issues \u2013 either too powerful or you are shit out of luck because you didn\u2019t play the previous installments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PSB: Are there any special treats reserved for those who are holding on to their Final Fantasy XIII save files? Can you share any details on how that will work?<\/p>\n<p>Toriyama-san: If you have any save files from XIII, they will be recognized upon the start of XIII-2, and you can get extras. Some of the bonuses include adornments for monsters that can be used in-game, and a bonus that can be obtained from the title screen. You don\u2019t necessarily have to have save data of the finished game; you can still get something even if you\u2019ve only played a little.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2011\/12\/06\/final-fantasy-xiii-2-details-ffxiii-save-bonuses-episode-length-new-game-plus-and-more\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2011\/12\/06\/final-fantasy-xiii-2-details-ffxiii-save-bonuses-episode-length-new-game-plus-and-more\/', 'Cool concept');\" target=\"_blank\">Cool concept<\/a>.  Now just have to actually find some time to watch, play, and finish FF XIII.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the concept of getting bonus goodies as a \u2018reward\u2019 of sorts for playing previous versions of a game. As long as the reward doesn\u2019t cause game balance issues \u2013 either too powerful or you are shit out of luck because you didn\u2019t play the previous installments. PSB: Are there any special treats reserved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/12\/18\/ff-xiii-2-rewarding-fff-xiii-fans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FF XIII-2 (Rewarding FFF XIII Fans)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,9,11],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-final-fantasy","tag-ps3","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}