What are the Pre-Order charts saying?
Also, goddamn Square-Enix...how could a company responsible for some of my all-time favorite games fall so far from grace. I, IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII are all amongst my all-time favorite games, they did them so well...why did they have to not only make FFXIII as they did, but make a sequel? *sigh*
the formula is simple:
Great Characters + Great story x Great world-building + Linear / Nonlinear x sidequests + (Cid+chocobo+airships) +/- the addition of crystals = winner.
XIII had boring characters, a one-dimensional story, strict linearity with no exploration or sidequests, almost no chocobos, minimal airships, and Cid wasn't Cid. Nothing about this game was Final Fantasy, they could have literally made another mediocre JRPG and slapped chocobos, the name Cid, and the title "Final Fantasy" on it.
truth be told, I'm picking up XIII-2 because...well, I have some hope for it and 8 awesome games is enough to make me forgive them for XIII, but at the same time...wow.
My Console Library:
PS5, Switch, XSX
PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, WiiU, Wii, GCN, N64 SNES, XBO, 360
3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, PSP, Android
