Checking out the new trailers for Square-Enix’s PS3 epics Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII initiates a trademark Final Fantasy impeccable - enlightening, revealing, enticing and confounding any red-blooded gamer in one fell swoop. Bear in mind that these titles are still a ways off; FF XIII has only shown smidgeons of gameplay footage and is scheduled for release in late 2008. FF Versus XIII only has CG-animated cut-scenes to its credit and understandably hasn’t been given an official date. However, the fate of the franchise and the two pillars supporting the massive Fabula Nova Crystallis project are, make no mistake about it, drop-fucking-dead gorgeous in an age where looking gorgeous is about as passé as making an FPS.

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The dream team behind Chrono Trigger reunite for a role-playing tour de force on the X360.

It’s a sad fact that Microsoft had to face–that their newest console was going the way of the dinosaur in Japan. This changed recently with the release of Blue Dragon, a game developed by renowned Final Fantasy (FF) and Squaresoft alumnus Hironobu Sakaguchi. Thanks to his track-record, Blue Dragon went on to become the highest selling XBOX 360 title in the territory thus far (Microsoft has already sold more than the 200,000 copies that were readied on day one of the Japanese launch). After leaving his original home in the RPG giant, Sakaguchi founded Mistwalker Studios (which by the way, is also developing Lost Odyssey, that gorgeous gem also coming to the 360) who, in conjunction with Artoon Studios (Blinx the Time Sweeper) has developed this new 3D, turn-based RPG. Of course, renowned character artiste, Akira Toriyama (Dragonball), and legendary game music composer Nobuo Uematsu are also onboard and this is the first time the trio have worked together since developing Chrono Trigger more than a decade ago.

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What is it with the Japanese and big boobs? With sexual habits that involve older women, lots of physical abuse and tons of mucho-weird tentacles, it is not unusual that almost every notable female figure from almost every media gets a ginormous boob job and is forced to participate in wanton acts of carnality.

And, of course, considering the Japanese near-mania state of obsession with the Fainaru Fantajī games, it’s inevitable that all the hot and cute (and seemingly underage, I might add) would undergo this sexual morphism as well, just to cater to the perverts in all of us. And it looks like the latest Final Fantasy girl to sit down and polish someone’s blade is none other than FF VII, umm, heart-throb, Tifa Lockheart.

Akibablog, in all their sexed-up wanderings, spotted this nice hentai comic of Tifa where she drops her entire inventory to take on two students(?) in what is described to be a teacher-rape fantasy experiment that goes on for all of 52 pages! Obviously, thousands of sex-starved otakus are probably lining up to take this home to their hump-pillows and not see the light of day for the next three weeks. Wonder what Square Enix has to say about all of this. Just as long as their own employees don’t take this to work or worse, design their own hentai based on the ultra-gorgeous CG Tifa from Advent Children. We wonder if we’d find any reasonably cute Tifa cosplayer here…

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(Warning! EXPLICIT IMAGES! Not suitable for work!)

Edit: It looks like the guys at Kotaku actually understood all that Japanese and got through to what the article really was. Check out their impressions here.