Umm I really liked FFXIII, yes the combat system could use some work because all you had to do was configuring the paradigms and then press X and R1 to change paradigms.
That aside, the characters in FFXIII were great, i loved them all (except Snow, fucking pedophile...) and the story was great. In fact it was the characters + Story combo that got me hooked until the end.
On a side note, Gran Pulse (the "free world" part of the game) was so bad I preferred continue the linear story...
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