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Final Fantasy's Lightning Is "Perfect Avatar" for Heroic Women, Fashion Company Says

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GameSpot reported last year on a Final Fantasy character being featured in ads for Louis Vuitton. Now, more images of Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning wearing Louis Vuitton fashion have been released.

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In the ads, Lightning is shown wearing fashion from "Series 4," which you can see being worn by real-life models here. Square Enix said in a press release that the collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Final Fantasy embodies shared values to preserve tradition while seeking out new and revolutionary ideas.

"Lightning is the perfect avatar for a global, heroic woman," said Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquiere. "Lightning heralds a new era of expression."

Final Fantasy designer Tetsuya Nomura said that Lightning's "stunning new look" was produced entirely by Louis Vuitton.

"This collaboration is not just a promotion of a game, and it is a great honor that the character herself received an offer from a world famous brand," added Nomura. "This has infused new breath into the character, Lightning."

Lightning will be featured in various magazine advertisements starting this month, in addition to promotional videos for the fashion campaign.

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Too bad she was part of the worst Final Fantasy of all time.

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@rasterror: Implying there is something worse than Final Fantasy 2 and 10-2?

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@Zhacarias: FFII (the PSP Anniversary Edition) was better than FFXIII, and had a better story and characters. And FFX-2 had a much better battle system than all of the FFXIII series.

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@rasterror: Preach.

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@rasterror: Nah, anything made after the merger isn't really FF. If I bought the Coca-Cola Corporation and slapped the Coke brand name on bottles of piss, you wouldn't still call it coke, you'd call it piss (or Pepsi).

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@gkmogglemog: The irony is that Final Fantasy 9 had Coka Cola commercials and it happened prior to the merger of Square Soft and Enix.

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@Zhacarias: FFX was the last "Squaresoft" Final Fantasy, though FFXI Online was well into development before the merger as well.

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@rasterror: Speak for yourself.

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@davillain-: I am speaking for myself. Who did you think I was speaking for, Galactus? Did you think I was one of his heralds or something?

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@rasterror: Oh I'm so sorry Mr. rasterror, let me step back while you go on your little hate for Lighting. Carry on.

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@rasterror: that's like saying Majora's Mask was the worst Zelda. It's true, but thy doesn't mean it's bad, considering the quality of the series. I enjoyed FF13 enough to finish it but it's never gonna get a second run. It wasn't a bad game once you got past the 30 hour corridor. Gran Pulse was the best part of the whole damn game and I wish they left Coccoon after the first couple chapters so the game could spread its wings.

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@KahnArtizt: Dude, it's 30 hours. We're not talking about a few slow hours. I find all RPGs need at least 10 hours before you get a good idea of it. But 30? Heck, 40 for most. That's just unacceptable.

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@KahnArtizt: It was bad. The dialogue was unbearable. I wanted to punch that one whiny girl in the thorax. The level and map design was unbearable, boring, and too straight forward. The combat was meh. And the story, we'll as far as I could bare, made no sense and was rather dumb. It was the equivalent of the CD-i version of Zelda.

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@rasterror: Did you forget about "Tidus Androgynous"?

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@Byshop: he was a terrible character for sure, but he was surrounded by good characters. The same cannot be said about FF13, though I did like Sazh.

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@KahnArtizt: I loved Wakka, Lulu, and most definitely Auron. He looked dope with his one armed sword stance.

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@KahnArtizt: I never beat FF13. The story, the characters, and the revised combat system were all big turnoffs for me. I kept remembering people telling me "it gets good 20 hours in because then you can pick your parties" and I remember thinking "how on Earth is that an endorsement?!?". I wanted to like it so badly I played it for 25 hours before I gave up.

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@Byshop: Personally I think X was the best.

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@Lord_Sesshy: Tactics to me is the best FF. In fact I'm playing it on my Vita. But 6 is the best traditional FF to me. I was addicted to playing Blitz Ball though. I loved that game.

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@rasterror: I tried Tactics once but I'm just not a fan of the RPG's with grid systems. To ridged for me.

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@rasterror: FFTactics was just Tactics Ogre with a Final Fantasy skin.

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@Lord_Sesshy: X was one of my favorites as well, but Tidus was pretty whiny. Plus, I can't miss an opportunity to make a Shakespeare pun on top of making fun of Tidus's girly features.

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@Byshop: Yeah but all the main characters are pretty whiny or emo lol. Squall being my favorite. At least with Tidus he had a go get them attitude.

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I at least had a 1 in 999,999,999,999,999,999 chance to score with Paris.

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old news and IMHO Samus Aran is the perfect avatar

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@the_master_race: She's probably too sporty for the likes of Louis Vuitton.

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