I posted this on targ forums a minute ago but this is GAMING world after all, right? I mean this is GAMING world, if you catc:
I just completed Final Fantasy XIII a few moments ago. I wasn't expecting to play it, but it just fell into my life out of convenience! I am glad it's over. I am also glad I didn't pay anything for this game. I would be very angry with myself if I had spent money on a PS3 and then money to buy a copy of this game.
It's terrible. It's the worst final fantasy, and this is a series with some clunkers!
If you want to know what it is like, then I'd say imagine Final Fantasy X style gameplay with an increased focus on fighting and linearity, mixed with the graphical style of Advent Children (this was something they were aspiring to), and an even more over-wrought story than usual. The story this time is totally senseless. It's really hard to figure out what exactly you are supposed to be driving towards in the game, and there are flourishes of emotion out of nowhere.
There is nothing to do in the game except fight and walk forward. There is a small section of the game where you can walk freely in a bunch of directions, but there isn't anything else to do, ever, except fight. This wouldn't be a terrible thing if the fighting was fun and interesting but after a while it gets really boring because there is exactly one way to win battles. You stagger the enemy using magic and physical attacks, and kill them. If an enemy is tough, you'll need to heal or cast status changing spells to make things go easier. Alot of the time you don't need to bother with that, though. You just do the same thing over and over, and it takes longer and longer as the game goes on because all the bad guys start to have millions of hit points.
Also what happened to exploring and finding things? That's why I play games like this. I like to walk around and take a look at houses and see different things. I don't know why they decided to just serve you 40 hours of relentlessly boring fighting without even trying to distract you from how boring it was with some minigames or towns or anything at all! Anything at all would have been nice!
I wanted to write a longer post where I just hit on every aspect of this game because it really is terrible and I never want to play another game like it. The dumb things I was expecting to like in this game aren't even there.
I was more positive about it earlier on, so I think it must get worse as it goes on. The things you expect to shape up as you go on don't. Character development is an illusion (you don't really get to decide anything, you just get to individually level up each of your stats in the exact way the developers want you to and that is it), the game never really develops into anything more than it is at the start (although gran pulse is cool to walk around in, for a little while), and the story never finds any stride to even makes you want to see what is going to happen next. You know it is only going to mean moving forward a few steps and fighting loads of monsters, whatever the hell happens (as if it matters anyway!) It looks like it is going to find some kind of purpose when all your characters finally get together, but that is actually when it really loses it.
Also, the story, characters and world of this game is pure garbage in every way. Just so you know, there isn't anything good I can say about any of that. It's all been done before, it's shallow and messy, it's stupid and flashy and I wouldn't have put up with it for more than 3 seconds anywhere else other than a video-game.
Okay I am done writing about it now. I'm making a decision to be better than bullshit like this once and for all.
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