XIII was a joke, it had to be. There's no other excuse why EVERYTHING in the game went down the shitter. The story was bland and generic, it's presentation was atrocious (seriously, you should not have to read an encyclopedia just to get the story, as Yahtzee said, you need to weave the narrative into the exposition), the Combat system was broken (I have a whole rant about the subtle problems with it.) The characters were flat and boring, comprised of generic stereotypes, the plot was remarkably linear, and not in the simple "This is the chain of events, follow it" way, the completely restrictive "go here, do this, fight that guy" way. Equipment upgrading was a total flop, no sidequests or exploration, completely forgettable bad guy....The list goes on. Even the graphics were unimpressive, and a jarbled mess if you had the misfortune to play on an SDTV (you couldn't read ANY of the words or numbers)
The only GOOD thing about it was the lore involved. I felt the world they created had a lot of potential, and the stuff about the elder gods and stuff has all the makings for a classic...but they ruined it with atrocious gameplay, boring characters, and a completely unoriginal and uninteresting plot.
That said, every other Final Fantasy Game I've played has been really good, most of which are some of my alltime favorite games. For this reason I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, hope they FIX the damn game's flaws. If they can give me a fixed version of the battle system in XIII, it could be awesome. If they give us towns and cities and sidequests and hidden content, and give us interesting characters and a good story, then count me in! until then, they can go die in a fire.
Did you know that Final Fantasy X-2 has a better metacritic AND gamerankings score than either version of Final Fantasy XIII? Sad, eh?
My Console Library:
PS5, Switch, XSX
PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, WiiU, Wii, GCN, N64 SNES, XBO, 360
3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, PSP, Android
