makingmusic476 on 10 March 2010
I honestly think the scores for FFXIII can't merely be explained by "different tastes". Two years ago reviewers had no qualms giving even mediocre JRPGs relatively high scores. Eternal Sonata, a far shorter (~23 hours), far more linear (you can't backtrack AT ALL), and just all around weaker game than Final Fantasy XIII (particularly in story - really the only area it stacks up is in music), sits at an 80 on Metacritic on ps3. That's only two points below Final Fantasy. It's a joke.
