Final Fantasy XIII is the thirteenth main installment in the Final Fantasy series and the flagship title of the sub-series Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy, developed and published by Square Enix.

It was released in December 2009 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and has since been re-released on Microsoft Windows in 2014.

It was directed by Motomu Toriyama, with Tetsuya Nomura designing the main characters and Masashi Hamauzu composing the score.

The game runs on the Crystal Tools engine.

It was the first Final Fantasy title on multiple platforms and the first to be translated into traditional Chinese.



Characteristics:

- From the creative minds behind FINAL FANTASY VII and FINAL FANTASY X comes the latest installment in the critically acclaimed series.
- Players will follow lightning, snow and the other heroes who will be dealt a hand of fate by the fake God.
- Cursed and seen as enemies of society, they have the world against them and no one to rely on.
- Final Fantasy XIII is set on the world of Gran Pulse, above which floats the Cocoon, an artificial biodome on which humanity lives, fearing the surface world.



- Lightning, a member of the Guardian Corps military forces, goes rogue when her sister Serah is marked l'Cie by a fal'Cie in Gran Pulse, designating her as Cocoon's enemy.
- The Sanctum government authorizes a purge of citizens who may have come into contact with the fal'Cie, and Lightning meets pilot Sazh Katzroy on her way to find Serah in the middle of the Purge.
- Also caught in the Purge are Snow Villiers, Serah's fiance and leader of the anti-authority group, NORA, and civilians Hope Estheim and Oerba Dia Vanille.
- The five come into contact with the fal'Cie's Pulse, Anima, and bear the mark of l'Cie, apparently with the Focus to destroy Cocoon.