The Final Fantasy 13 reviews from this jp site are incredible

http://review.rakuten.co.jp/rd/2_213310_13271535_0/

Everyone does realize that when this game comes out in the 'west', all the opinions of the west' will be the near complete opposite of Japan. They always are. So its pointless to speculate about the game now based on the Japanese launch of the game. Based on the Japanese opinion, the Japanese audio, Japanese reviews, etc.

At best, this game will have similar hype in the west (though I highly doubt it). But you will all go through this entire process again when the game comes out in your respective regions yet again as well as have completely different views of what makes the game good or bad as your Japanese counterparts.

Just watched some of the walkthrough video's... as a huge FF fan... I feel I won't be missing anything by not having this game. There are some really nice set pieces for backgrounds but the rest of the game looks like an up ress'd PS2 game. Not that the PS2 games didn't look great or maybe they looked too good which makes this look not so good compared to what Square had been showing in screen shots.

Do you guys prefer the futuristic FF entries? I don't... I liked FF8 but hated 10 and didn't find a lot to love in 7. I really liked FF9 but preferred FF4 and FF6. I haven't even played FF12 yet, even though it's sitting on my desk beside me (and has been since it was released).

i pre ordered final fantasy 13 long ago. now after watching some youtube videos i think its lame.

so Chocobo and cid are in the game right. final fantasy always have these characters in all their series that whats makes it final fantasy. i been looking foward 2 this game for awhile now hope they did a good job. I love number 8, 12. 10 was my least favorite it was the only one that i didn't complete. It had to be blitzball theme and Wakka the character i liked benders voice. i just found them stereotyping hawaiians and i found it racist from sq that they think all Hawaiians talk like dat why don't make him do the hang loose sign while they are at it. dude whats up with the black character in this game why don't they just give him a biga@@ afro and make him sound like chris tuck with his whinning arse voice square seems to stereotype a lot of different racists. Just as long it doesn't have blitzball then i am one happy camper. blitzball come on man what were they thinking horrible

Oh so thats the man, well at least its something.

People should just play the game themselves before making a judgment. While the FFX vibe the game exudes is a good thing for me. I won't know it until I play it. I know initially I thought the people that dissed FFXII were off their gord but the further I got into the game, the more I agreed with it's detractors.