This is a game that made me feel like cutting my penis off and beating the developers with it at some points, and in other points it made be stop in awe to recognise its graphical beauty.
-----What I liked about this game:
(1)The graphics: are really good. Especially the cutscenes, I have not seen many games with similar attention to detail and presentation.
(2)The Music: is decent but none of the themes are as memorable as past FF music.
(3)Customizing: weapons is nice. As well as the crystarium system, it reminded me of FF10's sphere grid. But FF13's version was far more linear and less developed. You didn't get much choices.
That's about all I liked.
-----What I disliked about this game:
(1)The gameplay: is for casual gamers who don't know how to play RPG's. And I am not a casual gamer. One of the main problems is the auto battle feature. I was pressing the X button most of the time as it would play the game for me and choose the most effective attacks against enemies. Some people say you can turn auto battle off, but if you do that the game becomes too hard. Autobattle is the most efficient way to play it.
(2)The characters: are not likeable. I didn't like them, and I didn't like their back stories. Hope reminds me of Justin Beiber, someone I see as a pus*y and whiner.
(3)The story: is terrible. its too difficult to understand and doesnt make sense. I could not understand all the words they threw at me like Falcie, Lcie, Pulse Lcie, Cieth. Like WTF, stop telling me words without explaining what they mean properly. Some may disagree, but me personally, I found it difficult to follow the story (for me this difficulty didn't happen for any other FF's)
(4)And the most of all, it didn't feel like FF: every FF needs mini games and hard secret bosses (at least Omega and Ultima weapon), they were not there.
-----Conclusion:
What FF game only lets you control 1 character? This game does. Still no world map, when will SE add the world map back to FF games? At least FF10 had a big massive world with lots of different branches.
This game has none of that. This game is as fun as walking forwards for 10 hours, then you must jump off a cliff at the end, and that is not very pleasing. ITS PAINFUL ! Because that's all you do in this game !
The FF series doesn't deserve this. FF fans don't deserve this. A series as great as Final Fantasy deserves better...
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FFXIII is actually one of the best Final Fantasy games.
I also sort of was disappointed at the time, never as much as the bandwagon. But really all the fantastic 3D rendered cutscenes and I actually liked the characters and the story though convoluted was actually fantastic and the ending was extremely emotional. So much budget and time were put into that game Square had such big plans, I actually have always felt kind of bad for how things played out.
I have been thinking for years how great it would be to get all three games on one disk for PS4 or 5.
Gotta take off the nostalgia glasses. It's the worst FF. Shiva as a bike, I mean come on.
Shiva as a bike is strange but saying FFXIII is the worst FF is not at all a fact, that's simply your opinion.
When I got my series X a year ago, I bought FF13 for nostalgia reasons but ended up being disappointed. When I first played it around the time it launched, I didn't have a lot of experience with final fantasy games, so I enjoyed it. Fast forward to when I played it again, I found that the game had many unnecessary filler moments instead of just giving us meaningful content.
The game is also very linear and a quote on the article said it best. "It is like a sewage pipe that leads to the ocean until it opens up on Grand Pulse."
The story didn't make much sense either and I believe it is my mistake as I played the FF7 remake on PS5 prior which is a night and day difference in terms of pacing, storytelling and likeable characters even though cloud is aloof.
Probably was a mistake to play any of the golden era FFs first (e.g. FF6 through FF10), it makes it harder to enjoy some of the FFs that aren't as good. I think FF12 was where major issues with the series started becoming apparent, and it just got worse from there.
I didn't really care for it that much, the only saving grace was that it had a better story than 15 (overall it was better than 15) and possibly 12, and even then, you had to read some of it through primers, like reading a book. Plus the battle system was reasonably fun for what it was, even if it was more the spectacle that was exciting for me (e.g. summoning). And to be fair, the 13 trilogy got better with every games, I still don't like Snow though.
Ff13 is only good if you haven't played a ff before, or any other games that are decent for that matter.
It is in fact no way the best Final Fantasy game, it's one of the worst
Linear corridors, Cutscene, Fight, Cutscene...rinse and repeat
Dialogue and characters are pretty bad, especially Lightning as the main FF hero, they literally said they tried to make a "Female Cloud" and they failed.
Story was pretty awful
I could go on
I think the only alright thing that came from the game was the music.
That's not a fact that's your personal opinion. The game sold 11 million copies between its 2009 release up until 2014 including critically reviewed as an 8 out of 10 or an 80 out of 100. The game does have some issues but it's not at all a fact as one of the worst FF games.
i liked the game alot but i didnt like how they handled the terminology.
i dont mind reading data logs but it had soo many.
but i always loved the music and how it looked. the battle system wasnt too bad either.
but i like 13-2 more :)
i still dont understand why we never got a remaster of the trilogy
Xbox kinda did. Besides the video files of course which are still best on PS3 due to bluray.
XIII is a pretty solid game, but XIII-2 is WAY better. XIII-2 was one of the few games I decided to go for a Platinum trophy in, early on. Had so much fun the entire way through getting it too!
I hated this to when it released. I haven't much liked a ff game since ff10 as much , aside from ff7remake. I decided to give it another shot on my series x since it's not on a current ps and was liking it quite a bit(just takes me some time to get over things ) until star ocean 2 remake came out I was all over that.
Square should definitely remaster it or something for ps4 ps5
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This is an honest review. Its what i really felt of the game.
I just didn't like it. So before anyone says I am trolling. 6/10 seems far for a game of this quality.
It clearly explains what all those names mean. And this is a very shallow 'review'. Could have gone into a lot more detail.
To be honest, there are very few legitimate gripes here. And in the event that they WERE legitimate, you didn't give enough info to convince anyone to believe you.
It's slightly more in-depth than your usual hatred of the game. Which really isn't saying much.
1-While I agree that the game doesnt give enough explanation to the games mithos on the beginning, once you understand that, you find an very interesting story. 2-The whole "combat system for casual games" is BS to me. Is just different and thats the problem. You still have to manage paradigms (some times constantly), and you cant just put one character healing, and the others attacking (like most ff) since the stagger meter forces you to play as agressive as you can. Buffs and debuffs are also way more important here than ever before. The combat is WAY better than XII
3-When you say theres no secret boss, its clear you havent tried to complete the missions on gran pulse. The last mission is the ultimate boss of the game. Also, the missions open new areas and features to explore, like chocobo riding (which im guessing you havent seen).
4-As for minigames, they are just pointless, and is just silly to bring that up as an argument to say the game sucks.
5-The characters are stupid, but so were the characters in X, and everyone loved that one.
Im tired by now. XIII is far from being the best in the series, but its not the piece of shit so many claim it to be. Its just different. If it was a spin off, im certain it wouldnt get nearly as much hate.