i really love the game. Its beatiful, the battle system is great and m glad to finally have a FF gamewith decent challenge (unfortunately FFXIII-2 and LR are 2 easy by comparison).
And dont worry about people bashing this game. Those fellas are just ignorants for the most parts cuz:
Linearity.- Back in 2009-2010 the "Open world" fever was starting and 4 some reason, it became a way to measure the quality of games for some people (heck, i've seen people hating TLOU cuz is linear =/). FFXIII was launched in march 2010 ( thats bad luck, i guess). Besides, last time i checked every FF game its linea. oh well.
Story.- For a story driven game i have to admit it, the narrative is kinda weak but again, as any other FF game T_T
characters.- Lets be honest, people seems to over glorify character without voice acting, thats my only explanation in this regard.
Yeap, FFXIII is not a masterpiece but the hate is just unjustified, since they use the past FF entries as a reference for their arguments