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onikenshi on 27 December 2009
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Lostplanet22 said:
mrstickball said:
1) Its bad that it is that linear, 20 hours into a game. If that trend continues, you wonder what kind of scores and sales XIII will garner.
2) The review is only 20hrs into the game. I simply cannot believe someone would review a JRPG prior to finishing the game. You just cannot do that in an RPG.

Bad like in FFX?  Aren't JRPG's mostly linear untill you are almost at the end of the game and can explore the world (the best part in any JRPG for me btw).

2)  I think most reviewers do that.  What is finishing anyway. Was finishing FFX storyline enough to give a good review of the game or must have done all the side quests aswell (that can take 150+ hours).

Not necessarily. In FFVII you can do a good portion of exploring and sidequests when you get the buggy after corel prison. Then even more sidequests and exploring happens with the tiny bronco, and this is all in disc 1. Similar case in FFVIII after you get out of Timber you can explore a good portion of that continent. In Valkyrie Profile 1, despite the limitations due to chapters, there are many towns, dungeons and characters to check out (especially in hardmode). Valkyrie Profile 2 also stops being so linear after you leave Dipan the second time. Another great set of examples would be Demon's Souls, Dark Cloud 2, Legend of Mana, etc.

Also, to the previous guy on the quote, 20 hours is good enough to get an idea of game mechanics and storyline. In the Final Fantasy set of games it is normal that the first hour is mainly story, CG's tutorial fighting (FFVII infiltration Mako reactor, etc, FFVIII qualification for SeeD exam, etc, etc). For an RPG even at around 10 hours you have a good idea of what's going on. I believe by the 10th hour in FFVII I musta been at the ship fighting a version of Jenova on the way to Costa Del Sol, or at least doing the military sendoff of president Rufus. In VP I was probably in Chapter 3 meeting Lucian, etc. Point is, 17 hours obviously can't be taken as a full review of an RPG, but it DEFINITELY gives you a good idea of what is going on and game mechanics. Obviously there is always the chance of some plot twists and whatnot but it has remained the same formula that nothing is what it seems, and there is another power greater than all that is the true one pulling the strings etc. Yu-yevon in FFX, Ultimecia in FFVIII (Sephiroth happened too early in FFVII so I can't count it as a real plot twist in that formula), Loki betraying Odin and Lezard Valeth trying to obtain godhood in VP1, etc.

On a final note, just like everyone has the right to be in the Final Fantasy defense force, he also has the right to state his opinions/observations on FFXIII without having others trample that right.