GAME · 2009 · JAPAN
Fainaru fantajî XIII
11 archived facts 1 topic 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
Many fans criticized Georgia Van Cuylenburg's performance as Vanille, highlighting her supposedly non-original Australian accent, while also praising Rachel Robinson's accented performance as Fang. Ironically, Robinson is from Los Angeles and Van Cuylenburg is from Melbourne.
- #002
The appearance of the playable character Sazh Katzroy was inspired by American singer Lionel Richie.
- #003
For the English version, this Final Fantasy title had more than 80 English-speaking voice actors involved in character voice production. At the time, this was the most voice actors featured among all other games in the Final Fantasy series; however, it was later surpassed by Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011), which had 114 voice actors, and later by Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013), which had around 240 voice actors.
- #004
This is the first main Final Fantasy video game series entry that Nobuo Uematsu was not involved in.
- #005
This is the first main "Final Fantasy" series entry across all the series in which Cid has a young adult appearance. In all previous series, Cid always appeared as a middle-aged or elderly man.
- #006
This is the first main Final Fantasy video game series entry that does not involve visiting towns or villages to buy equipment or rest at inns. The game is played on a one-way battlefield toward the objective, with save points that provide shopping.
- #007
This is the first main "Final Fantasy" series entry in which players cannot attack themselves or other party members. All previous main Final Fantasy series entries had the ability to attack themselves or other party members.
- #008
This is the first Final Fantasy game in which shops are accessible only through a save point.
- #009
This is one of the only Final Fantasy games in which the characters do not travel to a region with an arctic or winter climate. However, the crystal covering the Bresha Lake and Oerba regions could easily be mistaken for snow and ice on the ground if it were not stated in cutscenes that it is crystal.
- #010
The Xbox 360 version of this game was released exclusively for the US and Europe. However, Square Enix recently announced that they will release the International version of Final Fantasy XIII (2009) for Xbox 360 in Japan in the "Ultimate Hits" package. It has new content not found in the original release of Final Fantasy XIII (2009), such as a new Easy mode. The voices and theme song are taken from the US and European version, which are in English. However, it also supports Japanese subtitles.
- #011
The ships that make up the Sanctum Skyfleet are named Palamecia and Lindblum. These may also be the names of towns in earlier Final Fantasy games. Palamecia is a castle/town in Final Fantasy II, and Lindblum is a castle/town in Final Fantasy IX.
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