| chris1110022 said: You know, I think this game in terms of character development FFXIII is definitely best game (finally a grown up Final Fantasy game?) in the series and the streamlining helped this. Plus, the story is geopolitically prescient which is something new in the final fantasy universe. Okay, let me qualify that, the beginning is prescient: the purge. What I think the writers did was obviously draw off of past events but I don't think it was inspired Nazi Germany considering the religious tone of the game (the timeless theme of fear and revulsion of the "other", it's very psychological and something we can all learn from). It seems to have been inspired by Nitsche: in order to gain free will man must destroy god. Character development is key as each character begins from a different stereotypical archetype but what made this story really interesting is how each changed as the game rolled along. Lightning was of course the stereotypical " sexy cool" character (with a real violent streak...she likes to hit things which is actually kind of attractive, I like aggressive women) and yet by the end of the game she's as much all heart and caring as the others once the ice queen (mostly) melts. Sazh begins as comic relief and yet by the end of the game he's shown heart (by not killing himself in his darkest hour...or Vanille for that matter) and toughness along with wisdom. Snow is in my opinion probably the most typical type of character: arrogant, grandiose, and all talk and yet...a nice guy, wha? By the end of the game, however he's a lot more focused and stops calling himself hero because he finally faces up to the unintended consequences of his actions and looks beyond himself. Hope IS the most annoying character...not because he whines, because that's actually pretty justified. If memory serves he's 15 and watched his mother die...not many 15 year olds (or really anyone) in a single parent living situation could watch their parent die and not seek vengeance upon his/her killer (it's called a vengeance cycle for a reason). Mostly, he's annoying because he spends most of the game focused on getting Snow and then when the chance strikes...he doesn't have the sand to do it, yet he can save the world? |
1. Absolutely NOT!!! its the most childish, immature, unrealistic hormonal teen melodrama produced in FF history - fact.
the proof is in the pudding!
This is the best cutscene the game has to offer and the dialogue is awful. gone is the realism and maturety realised in FF12 and in are abysmal one liners that are based on the idea this is how young people talk. eg.
Hope - you say you want your day of wrath do ya, well its coming right up
Shaz - time to give the people what they want
Fang - well lady luck sure aint on his side
and the worst of the worst
Snow - its our focus Serah said so.
2. If your talking about the Holocaust then, theres no proof of this. the developers have not made any comments. its just a poor story that never focused on anything but teenagers having hormonal breakdowns.
imo FF12's Nabudis was an incredible reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki - to me this was as clear as day, however i cannot state this as fact because the developers have not commented either way. however FF13's story was borderline sickening - just awful cutscenens on top of cutscenes that regurgate the same plot point over and over again. this plot point is 'its our focus Serach said so'. nothing substantial is quantified about the world or its mythology by the end of the game. the developers even said the story suffered because of troubled development.
3. Again Lightning is the most unrealistic character in the series and has the most absymal development in the game. shes 21 year old girl who acts and sounds like a 45 year old women going through menopause. it dosent help that Lightning has an emotional breakdown in every cutscene, where the writers have tried to capture what they think men will find sexy - truth is women arnt like this and i dont find it cool or attractive - just a bunch of 45 year old men who dont know how to write realistic characters, especially women.
the problem is you have a bunch of 45 year old men quantifing what they think young people and teenagers are like in real life. we just have pure trash spewing out of each characters mouth and the American sterotype of a black man which is about 30 years out of date.
Finally i think games are meant to be played not watched. the person who did the 360 and PS3 comparasion of FF13 on digital foundary seems to agree with me on that. and personally i think FF has turned into a peice of trash, where you watch cutscene after cutscene that never builds to anything substantial - like Lost. and we are left with a very shallow gameplay experience. which is why FF13 is the worst FF ever, and i think it has damaged the FF name to the point of disaster - FF13-2's sales will prove this imo, that is if Square Enix lowering they earnings for the last quarter didnt already proove it!
