my FFXIII log almost no spoilers

[radha]

slowmo said:

maximus22 said:
I'm very sorry to say that I agree. Even though it is by far the most beautiful, FF13 is my least favorite yet by a long shot. I am 35 hours into it and I am still not gripped by the story unlike every other FF game. The battle and leveling systems are mindless, the summons are worthless except for pleasing aesthetics and I want to kill every single character myself.

I am so disappointed that it makes me sick. I keep playing it, hoping I will change my mind but so far I'm just solidifying my initial impressions.

On a positive note, the enemies are awesome looking. That's about the best I can do though. So sad.

I did wonder about that, maybe I'm using them wrong but all I've found is they're useful for retrieving a bad scenario when all your teammates are down as it revives both for you.  They don't do any damage against the harder foes at all, so are only useful in that regard against lots of tiny foes which once you're powered up with the area attacks, matters little anyway as you don't need them.  Are the summons usually this hopeless or is it just a FFXIII thing.

The pleasing aesthetics are a pain in the ass too, I'm sick of seeing the cheesy CGI when I do use one.

@radha - I think the game is definately targetting people like myself as you say.

sumons in 6,7,8 are the most powerfull magical attack, in FFX they are very powerfull at the begining of the game, in FFXII they have no reason to exist, and in this one they are used to revive dead party members or take on a group of little mobs.

I think i must some kind of purist then.