New FF XIII screen(52k warning)

[Bodhesatva]

I used to love Final Fantasy games. I also used to love Tetris. I went back, and I still like Tetris. But you know how sometimes, you revisit stuff you loved as a kid, and you think: "Wow, this stuff wasn't really that good?" That's pretty much how I feel about Final Fantasy. All of them. Their plots are melodramatic and heavy handed, and have been so, right from the beginning, I just didn't know it because I was a kid, and kids tend to like melodrama because its easy to interpret (subtle psychological innuendo or thematic implications aren't really a 10 year old male's forte. They certainly weren't mine). FF XIII Versus doesn't look any better to me: quoting Shakespeare right off the bat is an immediate sign of pretense.

Not saying others have to agree with me, just giving my opinion. I'm not sure I've yet to see an RPG with a good plot (comparing it to good literature or cinema), but I think a few have gotten reasonably close, and none of the FFs are amongst them. I haven't fully played X through XII, however.