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TornadoCreator on 24 March 2014
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Runa216 said:
Wright said:

Everything you said here, your empirical experience on the matter, is purely subjective. Disliking the art direction, disliking the voice acting, disliking the story, disliking the gameplay. That's subjective. It doesn't have anything to do with the game being bad. The game isn't bad. It isn't good either. That's up for the player to decide.

No, do you not understand the difference between subjective and objective?  I just gave a series of OBJECTIVE Reasons why FFXIII is a failure of a game and narrative. 

my OPINION is that it is an abbhorent mess that tarnishes the legacy of all other Final Fantasy games by proxy.  Ugly, stupid, audubly atrocious, full of terrible shit from beginning to end...But that's due to prolonged exposure to it and its apologists.  When I initially played it, I found its flaws to greatly overshadow its many, MANY shortcomings.  I can identify the difference between objective issues and subjective issues.  IT is objectively shallow, linear, and a poor excuse for interactive media.  it is subjectively the worst game I have ever played, and the biggest kick to my balls I have ever experienced.  

You can like it.  You can enjoy the in-game encyclopedia.  You are free to have fun with that 6-formation gameplay.  That doesn't change the fact that it is poorly told and neither its story nor gameplay are appropriate for its chosen type of media. it's a fine story, it even has potential as a game, but it is not a good JRPG. it is not a good job. 


Well said!