You can't see me but I am clapping in front of my computer. You got every point that I've ever complained about FFXIII and also addressed a major excuse for FFXIII that their fans use, FFX was linear too. FFX was linear but it was done way better and made sense in the plot. In FFXIII, linearity makes no sense since you're on the run. You would expect more freedom to traverse the world and hide from being caught (for that portion of the plot). Granted, that's only one of the many issues with the game that you addressed.
Good job OP. It's good to see people who actually play Final Fantasy and love the series but don't make excuses for the bad games they've been making recently. Don't even get me started on XIII-2 and Lightning Returns aka further digging the inconsistent and badly written plot and characters into the ground.
