13 has outsold a lot of other FF games and Lightning is very popular in Japan

it really doesn't take any effort to confirm this at all, Cloud Lightning and Squall are the trifecta of characters they use to market their gacha games, but beyond that Lightning always ranks top 3 in female character popularity polls

I dunno how accidental it was, the director is the same person who pushed really hard for the version of the Cloud drag scene in FF7R

base omnislash is deceptively lame, they had to add a lot of juice when they made Omnislash Ver. 5

FF7 is the originator of the black leather genre however

like FF has crystals in general

13 got a lot of hate in the west but it was pretty well received in Japan, and despite people saying how everyone hated 13 it's one of the best selling games in the franchise

even 13-2 sold well

it's just the black leather ones are REALLY popular

rare chance for it to be a metal slime each year