'Mild language'

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEYCwJr0NA

We LOVE this clip from last month of Leona Lewis plugging Final Fantasy XIII.

First off, obviously, there's the brilliant footage of Leona pre­tend­ing to have the faintest idea what she's doing. 

As you'll see, Leona is given exclusive hands-on access to Final Fantasy XIII, which is quite a coup for the gaming afi­cion­ado. Final Fantasy XIII takes place in a world known as Pulse and revolves around the story of the fal'Cie, mech­an­ical beings with godlike power created from crystals residing inside them. People who are marked by the fal'Cie for greater purposes are called l'Cie. Each l'Cie has a Focus, a goal the fal'Cie wants him or her to fulfill within a certain amount of time; however, the fal'Cie do not expli­citly say what the goal is: l'Cie learn what their Focus is by inter­pret­ing visions that are given to them. L'Cie gain the ability to summon Eidolons (monsters who fight with the l'Cie), but this ability comes with a price: if a l'Cie dies before com­plet­ing his or her Focus, fails to tame his or her Eidolon, or fails to complete his or her Focus within a set period of time, he or she becomes a monster known as a Cie'th. If a l'Cie does complete his or her Focus, the reward is not much better: permanent trans­form­a­tion into a crystal. For this reason, being chosen as a l'Cie is seen as a curse. Some 1,300 years ago, a fal'Cie named Orphan con­struc­ted a paradise for humanity: the shell-like city of Cocoon, which floats high above the surface of Pulse. Then Orphan created life forms and machines for Cocoon's inhab­it­ants to use, and humanity flour­ished. A war was fought between the Pulse and Cocoon, and Cocoon prevailed. However, fear lingered in the hearts of the people of Cocoon, for the day another invasion might come from the world beneath again. Although most Cocoon citizens have never seen Pulse with their own eyes, they have been told that it is a dangerous place that has strange effects on those who venture down to its surface. Consequently, anyone who is dis­covered to have visited Pulse is imme­di­ately subjected to quar­ant­ine and exile by the theo­cratic gov­ern­ment of Cocoon, known as the Sanctum. The Sanctum enforces this policy with its strongest military branch, PSICOM. As Snow leads the res­ist­ance group, Team Nora, in an attempt to stop the purging of civilians, the mys­ter­i­ous Lightning fights her way past PSICOM soldiers with the aid of Sazh to find a Pulse fal'Cie, Anima, who turned her sister, Serah (who is also Snow's fiancée), into a l'Cie. Through a chain of events, these three, along with two exiles, Vanille and Hope, are forced by the fal'Cie of Pulse to become l'Cie, and with that became enemies of humanity with the Focus of bringing about the downfall of Orphan and Cocoon. By the end of the game Vanile and Fang both decide to sacrifice them self in hope to stop the main ant­ag­on­ists explosion after being defeated.

Leona's response to her time with the game? "I just wanted to like run around the land all day."

Brilliant.

Secondly, we LOVE the second part of the clip in which Leona reads out some old guff about why her song 'My Hands' is a 'perfect fit' for the game. The absolute best bit is the "the strong female prot­ag­on­ist struck a chord with me" part, which might as well be Leona standing there going "someone did a deal for me to do this launch thing then realised at the last minute that none of it really makes any sense to either Leona Lewis fans or Final Fantasy players so we're clutching at straws here a bit, apols".

Well done everyone. WELL DONE EVERYONE.