honk kong game magazine give FF13 a 4/10 -biggest swindle in gaming history

[Millennium]

I have trouble trusting this review. The text is in line with what most reviewers give to decent Wii games, though the numbers seem more exaggerated: still, the whole thing reeks of anti-console bias. The game may be good or bad -I don't rightly know yet- but this does not sound like a review that can be trusted. As a Wii owner who's seen far too many biased reviews this generation already, it would be hypocritical of me to trust yet another example just because it's targeted at another console.

The one thing I will give the reviewers here, though, is the point that if it you can't stand to play a game for long enough to get to the good parts, that's a game-killing flaw: the good parts are worthless if you quit before getting to them. A lot of people have been saying this of FF13, and while I'm not yet sure whether or not to believe them, it wouldn't be the first time an FF game has been guilty of that (personally I'd say it's happened twice before, though my wife would say only once). It's been my hope that S-E would have learned its lesson by now, but perhaps it has not.