Final Fantasy XIII-2 has launched and has received good scores. Recently the Final Fantasy franchise has been suffering and for many people who grew up on the classic titles, it’s a painful thing. Final Fantasy XIII was exceptionally painful for many fans. While gorgeous, the game suffered for boring systems and a broken story telling structure; the very reason people loved Final Fantasy while growing up with it. Now with Final Fantasy XIII-2 the curve seems to finally be climbing. To me, Final Fantasy X-III is the ‘Sonic Colors’ for it’s own franchise. In general this game will be dismissed by the masses but slowly people will notice the improvements and if they continue on to the next title, Final Fantasy could be back in the public eye as it once was.
In this Article, I’d like to go over what the original Final Fantasy XIII did wrong. Originally posted in my blog before Gamer Talk existed, below you can find ‘ Final Fantasy and Elements of Story Telling’.
I will always insist that the game's skewed production schedule, the move from PS2 to PS3, then the inclusion of the 360, caused the game to turn out like it did. Which was disappointing to many.
"Final Fantasy XIII-2 has launched and has received good scores"
No...FF13-2 got worse scores then FF13, thats not a good thing, it showed you that it really didn't improve anything despite the BS lies that Sqaure said.
"Now with Final Fantasy XIII-2 the curve seems to finally be climbing"
lol....climbing
It hasn't even climbed the first step yet, it's still on a stand still.
"To me, Final Fantasy X-III is the ‘Sonic Colors’ for it’s own franchise. "
Why do people keep saying Sonic Colors was good, it was alright but it still didn't put Sonic back on peoples Radar, I think Sonic Generations was the one which made people think "Oh wow...Sonic is back" more then Sonic Colours.
Jeez, I hate when people try and defend FF13/FF13-2 and Squares decision behind the drastic change they took with FF. They were bad FF games, it's nothing something you can really defend.
What can you really say to defend it...
Oh it had good characters......nope
Oh it had a good battle system......nope
Oh the character development was great......nope
Oh I love the transformer style summons......nope
Oh I loved the linear paths......nope
Oh the story was the best......nope
See what I mean....you just can't. Fair enough people can enjoy it but to try and defend it, it's just not possible
11 hours in you are thrown into the remnants of another game for 20 hours.
You switch roles more often.Various opportunities to revisit areas already explored arise.
31 hours in you abandon all hope.....as yet another pointless piece of dark matter falls from yet another pointless creature in this tiresome little mess
I think we can all agree that was want Final Fantasy to improve. You guys are right, 13-2 di get weaker scores as a game but everyone agrees many systems did improve. I think that game mechanics did improve in general but I also think the ending was a huge slap to the face for the audience who is watching hoping for one of their favorite franchises grow.
Thank you for the comments everyone. I feel like a lot was well said.