Outlawauron's Final Fantasy XIII Demo Impressions

[outlawauron]

SHMUPGurus said:

What about the framerate? It's worse than the Unreal Engine. I couldn't believe it when I watched the videos on Gamersyde (best quality I've seen IMO, so it can't be the recording).

Other than that, the battles look alright (I'm so glad they picked "the music" for them as well), though I'm a bit disappointed they went back to turn-based. It looks a bit like Xenogears, which is not bad thing, but the weird thing about the battles is that you only control one character. What's up with that? Does this mean Gambits are back (heck yes if true)?

Like you said, Square better make you have more control over your party in the full version, or I don't know what to think about this battle system.

Last question, where did you acquire this demo? Did you buy Advent Children Complete? o_O

I didn't have too many issues with dropped framerates. Even with the crazy magic and your teamates during there thing, I'd say that it didn't get any worse SO4 has gotten for me. I definitely haven't had too many problems with it.

And they didn't go back to turn based, FF12 was turn based with the illusion of being real time. This has the same feel but you don't have direct control of movement during battles. (i.e. the left stick does not move your character)

And yes you only completely control your character in the demo, but I could tell my teammates who to attack or to heal me. Again, I couldn't delve too much into the tactics part with the lack of a menu.

And I imported FF7: ACC.