Final Fantasy XIII, it's not as bad as I thought

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Ka-pi96 said:
Agreed, it really isn't that bad. It is actually quite fun.

IMO the hate comes because it is called Final Fantasy and doesn't compare to previous ones, if it had any other name it would probably be thought of in a much more positive light.

I doubt it. The game just isn't very good. If it weren't called Final Fantasy the game would have gotten the low scored reviews and minimal sales it deserved. Lost Odyssey was 10 times the game that FFXIII was. I had no expectations for FFXIII and I still found it underwhelming. The game was incredibly linear even by JRPG standards, the cast was poor, the dialogue was awful, the story wasn't very good despite the incredible lore in the datalogs. Hope and Vanille were two of the worst characters I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing in a JRPG. To put that in perspective, I've complete Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Those two are in the same class as Emil Castagnier, who in my opinion, is the worst lead in JRPG history.