Like Soul Eater so far? IGN reports that Square Enix has announced a game based on the manga, titled Soul Eater: Monotone Princess. It’ll be an action/adventure game for the Wii.

Also in video game news, Destructoid rejoices over a release date for Final Fantasy IV’s DS remake: July 22nd. Huzzah! Now maybe I should go back and finish up FFIII…

So I was going through and updating a bunch of bookmarks, during which time I went on over to Square Enix’s site for the first time in a long time. There I discovered an announcement that reports that in spite of reports of the contrary, there IS no official release date for Final Fantasy XIII yet.

Now, I haven’t heard anything about an FFXIII release date yet (and I’ve been sitting here muck, so it can’t be all THAT widespread a rumor yet. But, there you have it.

Original source: Square Enix

CVG reports that there WILL be a Final Fantasy XIII demo so fans can get a handle on the battle system prior to actually getting the game. (Frankly, if we need a trainer simulation in advance of the actual game to comprehend the system, I can’t think that it bodes well– though after the complete snooze that was FFXII’s system, it still sounds like an improvement.)

But no date has been provided for the demo just yet, so don’t go holding your breath. 2008 promises to be the year when we get more information on the game (which to me says…we won’t get the game itself. Boo). CVG has a few other details on the world setting, if you want those, some of it interesting and some of it as inane as “the red thing on Carbuncle’s head is a ruby” (….durrrrrrr).

So there you have it: there is, in fact, no actual news on FFXIII, but now we can pretend that there is.

Original source: CVG
Secondary source: Kotaku

Why yes, someone did. Trailers are up of both Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII, but no Agito trailer– sad.

The FFXIII trailer makes me think of Final Fantasy VIII both in world setting (that tunnel makes me think of Esthar City) and in weaponry (a weapon that can change from gun to sword? HMMM!). Fortunately, neither of those are the items that annoyed me about FFVIII, so all is well.

Meanwhile the FF Versus XIII trailer reminds me a bit of this one Kingdom Hearts 2 trailer in appearance. Argh, I can’t find the KH2 trailer– the one where guys in Organization cloaks fight up the side of a building and stuff.

Anyway, check out the FFXIII trailers:

Hey, I just noticed– the FF Versus XIII trailer says “CLOUD” in the upper-right corner. Hmmm…

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Instead of posting about all manner of depressing things here today (like I’ve been doing over at theOtaku), I’m going to post a bunch of videos I’ve stumbled upon this evening.

First up: Sayonara Neuro-sensei:

FF6 High School Host Club:

And, how did I miss this? Apparenlty it’s a little old, but too awesome to pass up. Ef Star: