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Xen on 07 June 2014
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outlawauron said:
Xen said:
Even with the linear nature of a huge chunk of the game...

1) Shit was explained to you, and shit actually made sense
3) Characters had more than one dimension, the only dimension anyone aside from Sazh/Lightning know.

etc.

It's a far more engrossing and involving experience.

I do always wonder if I played a different game from other people. I understood the story and the characters that everyone criticizes the most had far more depth than most video game characters.

Digging around for ages in datalogs in a world that doesn't even attempt to explain/show the fabula (cue irony), with characters obsessed with the same phrases and ideas (whether they're making sense or not, mostly not) is not character depth or good storytelling. It's not engrossing, and I would hardly be able to find games that have less depth than XIII does - a bunch of stuff that is in the datalog, but nowhere to be heard of in the game or from the characters is not depth.