i personally loved Final Fantasy 13 and liked xiii-2 even more.
I understand people have their opinions and everybody isnt going to like the same game. However i do think people get brainwashed and end up jumping on the bandwagon when the're constantly reading bad things about something, they end up believing its bad themselves and when they play it they are playing it with a criticism manner and are just looking at negative points no matter how small they are.
While you say the story was the worst part, this is the part of the review i disagree with most. Time and time again games are released with a story which has been done before over and over, developers just do it in their own style and with there own fictional characters and locations. FFXIII however, done something new and in my opinion very creative with the whole Fal.cie and L'cie thing.
IMO there one gripe i had with FF13 was the battle system, because in most fights you simply didnt have to really change tactics and you just press attack untill you eventually won, it was only the harder fights where you had to cjange paradigms to buff/debuff and heal during the fights in which i found fun but they didnt happen enough.
I'm not criticising your review as that's your opinion and you entitled to it, and no doubt the're are games out there that i dislike but you love. :)
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