Final Fantasy XIII better than Final Fantasy XII?

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darthdevidem01 said:

g-value said:

darthdevidem01 said:

Euphoria14 said:
Why do so many people dislike Vanille by the way? I think her character is fine, as well as Hope's.

Was a child who watched his mother die supposed to have a Kratos' style attitude and be all bad ass? He is a kid. His character makes sense.

Thats a BIG spoiler euphoria

anyway I agree with you on hope

{spoilers up to chapter 3 below)

seriously he saw his mother die, got turned into a l'cie (which he saw as monsters since his childhood), he got turned into one cus some moody cow who he had never met decided to attack a fal'cie with a sword....ermm if he did anything but whine I would be shocked.....

Put on top of that the fact that if he doesn't complete his focus he will turn into a monster. His character makes completely sense.

To top it off he's ONLY 14 Years Old.

If I was in his position I dunno, I would either be crying non stop or I would have suicided or simply had a nervous brakdown

he's shown some great strength imo.

 

*small spoiler ahead for chapter 1* Read at your own risk:

 

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But it doesn't make him any more likable to me, although you're right in the sense that he's acting almost believably for a 14 year old that just saw his mum went the way of the dodo (and yes that's probably the part that doesn't appeal to me). Still there's some baffling scene even starting for Chapter 1.

For example: rhe absolutely retarded setting in which they went to the Pulse fal'Cie had me scratching my head though.

We're in the middle of a warzone! The enemy has flying freakin ship with BIG HONKING LASER going pew pew pew and people are dying left and right (including hope's mother!) and what the hell does he do? By himself, probably nothing as initially he reminds me way to much of Shinji from Eva, but damn with Vanille by his side, they freakin hijack a damn flying chicken leg and flew TOWARDS the epicentre of the fight in an effort to tell Snow that he killed his mum and needs to pay (which he never gets to say until chapter 5-6 or something.)

I mean good god! Talk about suicidal tendency and the 'yes mistress' syndrome here!

God thats stupid. Especially Vanille alloying a stupid kid to drive the flying chicken leg and almost crashing to their doom and taking him into unknown danger: a 14 year old kid!!!!

She acts like the village idiot most of the time and the fustrating thing is that I KNOW the reason they made her like this.

She's the typical 'Genki Girl' architype that is very very popular in Japanese otaku culture and having a Genki Girl in an Final Fantasy is almost a mandate: 'Yuffie, Selphie, Riku etc'. The problem here is that they didn't manage to translate her well into English, a lot of personality is lost thanks to the unique (and often childish) expression and idioms being left out, dropped or simply ignored because their is no comparable in English.

I blame this on the lack of 'moe' in western culture and learn to live with it.

Bah /rant over