FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - THE OFFICIAL THREAD! - Now with DLC Trailer on newest Post!

[Runa216]

brendude13 said:

Runa216 said:
in a dramatic twist of events, I don't hate it yet! Jury's still out, but there are a lot of things I'm liking a lot more than XIII, and a few things that are just as frustrating. Only 5 hours in though, hit my first snag.

How did you get your copy so soon!?

Nice to know that you don't hate it though, the fan response has been great so far yet the review scores are a lot worse. What the fuck is up with that?

Honestly, I bet a lot of the backlash is simply becuase of the public's hatred towards XIII.  I know I was prepared to hate it regardless of quality, but at the same time it's got a lot of improvements.  storytelling is still dismal, characters still pretty shallow and bland, and I'm still not a fan of the battle system, but I don;t hate anything yet. they fixed the one key problem with the battle system (if the main character dies, you jsut take over another character) so now it's simply a fair matter of personal opinion.  I also like the nonlinearity, I like having options to chose where I go next, what I do, and how much of the activities I want to do. 

While I'm still not sold it is, on its own, a good game, it's definitely leagues better than XIII.