Teaching gamers: Final Fantasy 13 as a super tutorial

via Examiner.com: "Throughout the game’s long playtime — nearly 60 hours for a single playthrough of the campaign, many more including side-quests — Square-Enix uses an incredibly small amount of traditional techniques, like pop-ups. Almost nothing is spoken about paradigms or its deeper layers of strategy that are all but required near the middle of the game. Did Square-Enix fail to realize how complex their game really was?"