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Rob-Ot on 22 December 2010
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outlawauron said:
Rob-Ot said:

Definitely an excellent musical score, one of the most underrated in gaming, its a shame this musical score, excellent battle system, great setting and decent cast of characters had to be tied up into a terrible story, nausea inducing dialogue and terrible level design. In the end I still enjoyed it more than FF12 though.

I enjoyed the story and especially the ending. I thought it was much more orginial than your typical JRPG story/ending. I play a lot of JRPGs with much, much worse dialogue so I didn't quite notice the writing issues. By terrible level design, I'm assuming you're talking about the linearity at the start of the game?

Story - Yes the idea is original, thats why I said the setting was great, the premise was different from most JRPG's. However the story just wasn't told well, the datalog told a good story, the game didn't. This angers me more, the developers had a good story but it wasn't told in game.

Dialogue - I know what you mean, star ocean 4 dialogue makes FF13 seem like shakespeare, but just because others do it worse doesn't mean this game doesn't do it bad on an objective level.

Linearity - Yes, I hated the linearity in X and hate it here. Thats not all, by design I mean lack of variety (sure on gran pulse it wasn't linear but now I ran around in circles fighting enemies) and variety in side content. Then the games battle system is developed too slowly. I would welcome a FFXIII-2 because from interviews I think developers have realized where they went wrong.

This is the most un-great game I've played, for everything done well there was something I didn't like. Just to give you my background with the series, my favourite is IX and since X turned out to be mediocre for me I have felt they have dropped a lot in quality.