Yoichi Wada: “Some Are Not Very Happy With Final Fantasy XIII”

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AkibaFan said:

tingyu said:

Ok, for all those first or 2nd time playing a JRPG, FFXIII may seems like a good offering because it plays more or less like an action adventure like Uncharted or FPS like COD, straight line to the end (even Gran Pulse is an empty space full of Cieth Stones and monsters and dose not carry any significant story element). Thats what this Yoichi guy did to the series, made it 'modern' so it would appeal to western players.

But for us, real JRPG nerds (I've played FF III,IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, X-2, Tactics, Suikoden II, III, Shadow Hearts whole series, Xenogears, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Kingdom Hearts I II, DQ V VII, Tales of Fantasia, Okami, Persona 4), FFXIII is the worst among every JRPG that I have ever touch on.

 

i hve playd all th games u mentioned ther. I liked FFXIII more than all of them excpt FF7 and FF8.

i ws touched by th story. I cried when sazh almost killed vanille. I liked all chrcters except fang. I felt sad at oerba ws, a place wher tragedy took place, with the music.

u dont like it, fine. bt dont pretend to talk for all JRPG nerds, becaus ur not. 

FFXIII's average user rating is 8.5 on this site, so actully hardly any1 agree tht its the worst RPG, FFXII average user rating is 8.1, below it.

like i sed, its fine if u dnt like it, many don't. But don't pretend tht everyone else thinks its th worst rpg evr, because the majority like FFXIII (proof? user review averages on th net)

I dont know where people are getting this idea that Yochi Wada is responsible for the design choices in FF13. hes a buisness man, who manages Sqaure Enix, and imo he seems to be doing a good job, since Sakaguchi made the company go bust with the Spirits Within.

the key people responsible for the storyline about the psyco sister in law, are Kitase, who produced/directed FF6, 7, 8 & 10. the other person is Toriyama, who directed FF10-2. so these guys who worked on the previous games are the ones to blame.

and i've already said what i thought about the game. but i think that Kitase and Toriyama did fuck up with FF13. and something needs to be done to make sure it dosent happen again - hopefully Wada can do something about that!!