It looks nifty and it'll be interesting to see whether or not that stuff is at least slightly pre-rendered. The style of Final Fantasy is kind of getting old...maybe it's just me.
Regardless of how the game is, or what designs they've chosen, Final Fantasy games have always been one of the BEST demonstrations of art style execution by any developer.
acc: So that's a girl this time? I thought that's a man. Well, "man" by Final Fantasy standards. The face closeup definitely looks like "male FF character" to me. The floating weapons look like the Ruler Sword from Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance to me.
Seems to be some confusion here, which is not surprising because there are three different FFXIII games. Final Fantasy XIII is the one with the girl in those screens above. She goes nuts with a gun-sword on a bunch of enemies on a train. The trailer actually showed a lot of realtime footage, but there are some pre-rendered…