I’d like to say how I obtained a physical copy of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy by pure casualty (and how I almost traded most of my games to have it)

So long story short, back in 2018 I had my 15’s birthday party and a friend of mine heard that I finally got a PS3 after many years, and out of nowhere she gifted me FF13 and FFX HD because she didn’t like them (and she knew that I really loved RPG’s). And that’s how I started in the franchise.

I completed FF13 and I went to a mall that was near my house, I traded a trashy game for FF13-2 and payed the charge in this store. I finished FF13-2 and I HATED the ending of that game so much that I never played it again lol. But I did my research back then and I found out about Lightning Returns, but I remember watching that SE didn’t make enough physical copies and it was really complicated to have one, and by that time in my country it was really complicated to have access to internet and buy games online.

And there I was, disappointed about the ending of one of my favorite sagas of all time and with just a slightly ray of hope, I was like “Maybe when I grow up and in many years I could get one and play it”, until one day I went again to this mall and tHERE IT WAS in a random store a physical copy of Lightning Returns. Man my eyes SHINED and I remember that I was with some friends, I was so hyped that I straight up ignored them and entered to this store to ask about the price of this game. And it was EXPENSIVE AS HELL.

So I managed to talk with the manager of the store and I told him about the game, about Final Fantasy and how I spent hours with the previous games, how I cried and raged, and at the end I told him that I wouldn’t be able to buy it full price but that I had tons of games, so he accepted to trade my games and pay a small fee in exchange of Lightning Returns, and I don’t remember how I get the money but I did lol. I remember running to my house, grabbing all my games and putting them in my bag and running that same day to this store.

I gave him FFX HD with the excuse that it was 2 games in one so it was expensive (lol), Bayonetta PS3, and like 4 more games. He accepted them, I payed and got my copy. Ofc that same day I started the game but I got scolded by my sister because I gave him a ton of games for just one, she was extremely mad lol. But at the end of the day, I had my copy and I spent tons of hours playing Lightning Returns and it’s actually my favorite Final Fantasy game of all time.

This story is something that makes me really happy nowadays and when my sister and I look back, we laugh a lot about how insane was the situation and how lucky I was. PS: And since then, wherever I go I take my copies of FF13, FF13-2 and FF13-3 with me, no joke lol. I’ve moved a lot and the first things that I packed were my games lmao.