First Final Fantasy XIII-2 "review" in Dengeki! (Highest rank possible!)

[Areym]

maverick40 said:

Areym said:

@maverick FFXIII was a proper rpg, granted it wasn't a perfect one. I found it entertaining and t story was engaging enough for me to put up with it's faults. I'm going to assume by proper rpg you mean Skyrim which really, it's just as repetitive and actually a lot less eventful than FFXIII, at least from the 20 hours i dropped into it so far.

I am not into skyrim. I collect rpg's and have over 50 for the ps2 alone. All in all i have collected over 100 rpg's so I know my stuff. A proper rpg is person 3 and 4, disgaea, atelier series, suikoden series, final fantasy 1-10 to name just a few. 

The problem is, people think squareenix are perfect and can do no wrong so they defend their beloved games to the high heavens. I have got a platinum in ffxiii and i can tell you know. It is down there with ff12 as worst rpg's in my collection. 

Reasonable enough. Still, our taste differs a lot. Those games you named are pretty good games, granted i do not like the persona, disgaea and personally never heard of atelier. Technically, FFXIII qualifies as a proper RPG. Whether or not it's a good rpg is up for debate. Like I said, I liked it a lot. Not my favorite RPG (seiken densetsu 3 stilll holds the title) and not my favorite FF game but pretty good. I think X-play's review and score does it justice and properly explains its strengths and weaknesses.

I agree some people are blinded by square enix's once legendary status as RPG kings, but for actual RPG fans, it's not like that or at least shouldn't be like that, so I'd be careful with the topic of what is a proper RPG.

PS: How did you not like FFXII? :O I loved that one in particular,  granted I never got to finish it sadly. The combat was an upgrade for me at the time (more action oriented) and the politics/war oriented story was so refreshing from FFX's sappy-ass love story (Still one of the best FF however) The only downside was Vaan  himself. Weird ass character model o_o

EDIT: What is with all the FFXII hate? Am I the only one who enjoyed that game? lol I never knew it was this badly received.