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

[Runa216]

ryuzaki57 said:

 

"but I cannot ignore how boring the second half was for me.  Half of the game was a mindless, time consuming chore that required little to no interaction from me.  That's not fun, and the score reflected that. If you guys find it fun, then awesome, I'm happy for ya, but me...I didn't find it fun at all." > You're perfectly free to feel that way but there's a huge problem : a review shouldn't be a simple personal opinion. What diffenrentiates your review from the one I wrote on my blog? You may influence many people not to buy the game just because you didn't think it fun, while those people might love it. I don't say that against you (sorry if I there's any offense), I just reckon that reviews in general are a really flawed system unfit to today's market. Back in 2009 there was a little JRPG called Trinity Universe, but I didn't buy it because the reviews on French sites were quite negative. I picked it up in 2010 because I was still curious about it, and now it's one of my favorite games of this generation. 

 

So basically I'm supposed to give in to public pressure and just review the same way everyone else does?  Trust me, if I was going by personal opinion alone, I would have given it a 2 or 3 becuase compared to other FF games it's trash.  Next to no content comparatively, poor story, bland characters, very little in the ways of side quests or minigames and the story is short.  I loved the first half, but the second half was so bad it negated ALL good points I'd come to think.  a 5.4 is still positive.  

And why in the world can I not have an opinion?  It's not like I don't know what I'm talking about or am completely ignorant of the genre/series, so my 'opinion' is just as valid as yours or the dude who reviewed it for EGM or IGN or Gamespot or Destructioid.  Different people will have different opinions, the point of a review is to give yours while substantiating the reason you have that opinion.  That's what a review is, a substantiated opinion. 

I am sorry you don't agree with the score, but I can't be expected to review according to public demand instead of my own personal opinions.  I can't just pretend I liked it just to give it a good score.  I can't ignore what I Feel are glaring flaws in a game's design just becuase I Fear the wrath of public opinion.  I looked at the pros, I looked at the cons, I weighed them appropriately and came to a score I Felt was fair.  if you weigh them differently then that's awesome!  

As a reader it's your job to take what I say and apply it to your own tastes.  I made it clear I didn't care for the battle system, but the text made it clear that it was basically the same as XIII but with some awesome improvements.  Instead of getting torn up over the 4 I gave the gameplay, you should be able to filter and balance my WORDS to apply them to your own tastes, and discern that my reasoning for hating the battle system may not apply to you and therefore can be ignored.  

if people ignored the numerical value I assigned the game, I guarantee people would think the review was fair and balanced.  try it, read the review and pretend I gave it, say, a 7.4 overall...I guarantee your opinion of the review would change drastically. however, I weighed things differently and came to a different conclusion.