The replay value wasn't there, I enjoyed the characters but they were not developed to the extent they should have been, I didn't talk to anyone, the world wasn't as believable as, say, Spira, and you had to read pages and pages of Datalogue script to understand what was not properly explained in the cutscenes. The Datalogue had me more interested then the actual dialogue. I wanted to love it but I was left underwhelmed.
Gameplay? The battles were simply too long - spending 10 minutes with 3 ravagers going crazy half the time (being healed the other half) only to be destroyed by a few Sunder hits because my Sentinel wouldn't use Challenge fast enough is not my idea of a good time. Replay value was also not there.
The game was beautiful in its presentation, even awe-inspiring, but I hardly felt like I was participating in this adventure with the characters. I felt like a bystander, pressing X and L1 every so often.
It felt like a nuetered Final Fantasy.
But, even after all of that I can say that it was an excellent game. Better than many others, but not on a tier of its own as every other game in the series has been up to this point.
I survived the Apocalyps3
