Final Fantasy XIII Linearity - Be reasonable people.

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Crystalchild said:
according to current reviews, the first half is very linear, but later locations are huge.

This is actually one of the things that has bugged me most about later FF games. They have NO sense of timing any more. If you subject your audience to 5 or more hours of lackluster gameplay, you're going to lose a bunch of them. I don't care how great the later part of the game ends up becoming... I have neither the time nor the patience to wait for the developer to get around to making the game interesting.

It's an RPG so there has to be some amount of set-up time but if XIII is anything like XII, it gives me one more reason to wait until the game is $20 at Gamestop to pick it up (if I pick it up at all).