Final Fantasy Showdown Round #8 -- Rate FF12 & FF13! (Last round)

[The Xbox Man]

FF13 was my first one I played. I have begun playing FF12 but can't rate it yet, so far I don't really like it much.

I got ff13 after seeing the positive review in OXM, I got it for xbox 360 and wow it was unlike anything I'd played before. The battle mode was really cool after you got to fight odin because i found out paradims are important in that battle and experimented. the game looked great graphically, except for the girl with pig tails (Vanille) the characters were pretty good especially snow and fang (I have a nerd crush on her). Story stayed interesting and was very well done. man the music was amazing and the cut scenes in between that were of a higher quality like the one on the racecourse blew me away. some cut scenes really touched me and were well done like when hope gives the doll back to the girl.

But all the villain sucked and the one with the big ^-^ what happened to her? we didn't get to fight her. The battles got very hard toward the end and I can't beat the big dinosaurs on grand pulse! Voice acting was off at times and the lip synch was off.

Around 25 hours in it became one of my games of the generation and after the ending it was my tied favorite game of the generation with mass effect 2. It seemed so different and fresh from all the rpg's I had been playing being a big PC and xbox gamer recently I am amazed they made a fantastic battle system that requires you to press 3 buttons most of the time, yet its exciting. I don't understand the complaints or the metascore, maybe its inferior to other FF's but many reviewers seem to have reviewed with a mind of what they wanted it to become not for what the game itself is, clearly I can't comment on this as I haven't played other FF's but some complaints in reviews I read online sounded really unnecessary.

I give FF13 a 10