I'm glad to see many are disappointed in FF13. Not glad as in happy it disappointed us but some of my friends like the game and give me a hard time when I keep telling them they should play old Final Fantasy's to see how mediocre it is.
I am very disappointed in the story, actually was there even a story? I can sum up the plot in 3 sentences, I really can I've done it. The linearity was disappointing, when FFX came out it was fine because PS2 had technical limitations, but on PS3 other genre's are getting bigger and better, but Final Fantasy is getting smaller and worse? The dialogue was cheesy and trite, how did the script get past the director, was Toriyama drunk while making the game? The characters were erratic, Hope and Vanille were annoying and awful characters. Snow was unrealistic and stupid. But I liked the rest of the characters.
I liked the games music, battle system, setting and the remaining characters (Lightning, Fang, Sazh). What makes me even more disappointed is that datalog, if the story in the game would be the story in the datalog I would have liked this game much more, the analects were very interesting and made the main story seem irrelevant.
Story - 5/10
Characters - 7/10
Gameplay - 3/10 (just running forward in most chapters or running in a field in chapter 11)
Battle System - 9.5/10
Setting/World - 9.5/10
Overall 7/10
Its a very erratic game, I am so confused on my feelings with it, it has so many sparks of brilliance that are destroyed by stupid decisions. Disappointing for a FF title, but even more disappointing because they had a great premise and a good story crammed into the datalog that just wasn't told well. Its the perfect case of terrible execution of a great idea.
All in all I still enjoyed it more than FF12, FF14, FF11, FF2, but every other Final Fantasy is better. I hope FF Versus 13 brings the franchise back to the top, or Agito 13.
