As you already know if you follow Final Fantasy (or even if you don't), the cover art for Final Fantasy XIII got released this week. I don't really understand the hype over this whole thing, and at the same time I can't help but get caught up in it. The cover is a break from the usual treatment that the series gets in the US. The JP covers since FF VII have been the logo with a white background, while the US usually gets a montage of the main characters. This cover is in line with that and I appreciate the minimalistic tone. Though, why is the cover zoomed in on the PS3 version? I know it's a pedantic thing to get complain about, but everybody's mad about something when it comes to this game.
To some, it's that they changed the theme song. For others, it's that Tetsuya Nomura is working on the character designs because they hate the abundance of belts and buckles in his art style (for those people, thanks for not noticing that he's changed his style BTW). And for the amazingly weeaboo-ish part of the fanbase, it's that there won't be a Japanese track on the disc. Thankfully, I haven't heard anybody complain about Nobuo Uematsu not working on anything on this game. Don't get me wrong. Uematsu is easily my favorite composer out there, but it speaks volumes of how good Masashi Hamuzu is.
In the end, the overwhelimg majority of FF fans will still buy this game, so it's all moot.