The focus on the story isn't the issue here. The difficulty of the game and how rewarding the battle system is will be the major issue.

Some people enjoy the story, some don't; I'll leave you to decide your opinion on the story and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

What everyone faces though is the game turning  very very easy around 10-13 hours in the game; and then going to extremely easy later on (except for optional hard battles and final boss which is suddenly very very hard).

There is a lack of difficulty balance later on in the game. I still found the game extremely fun but the battle system is less rewarding than XIII's simply due to the fact that it isn't difficult. I think there may be a "hard mode" DLC in the future.

well I'm glad we can come to a polite disagreement. 

ClassicGamingWizzz said: woot?????? 5.4 ????? i hate ff 13 cause the game is a bad final fantasy but i gave him a 7.5 score, i gave skyrim a 5 cause skyrim have game breaking bugs , but this :S i don´t agree at all with the score, in this days a 5.0 game is totally garbage ... but if ff gets lots of these scores maibe square go back to the old school formula we all like

What game breaking glitches?  I played for over 200 hours so far on PS3 (the worst of the versions) and only had my game freeze on me once.  I encountered more glitches in the 8 hours I played Uncharted 3 than the 200 hours I played on skyrim.  I think people are grossly exagerrating Skyrim's issues. 

I thought the game was very technically impressive.  The graphics were truly top notch, the art direction was damn impressive as well.  I thought the score/soundtrack was mostly good, the voice acting solid.  

AS for actual performance, never any slowdown, never any glitches. Game worked perfectly.  the issues I ahd with the game were not with performance, but design choices in gameplay and especially the plot which was contrived, confusing, and inconsequential. 

And the review went through editting by gamrReview staff to make sure that it was a review which could be supported by the site.

Again, Runa is a fan of the series and Square-Enix was claiming that FFXIII-2 would fix what was wrong with FFXIII. I believe any reviewer should be qualified to review the games they set out to review, and Runa seems to be more than qualified for reviewing FFXIII-2 in my eyes.

Runa, you wrote a fair review for the game in my opinion. I don't see an issue at all.

Games trash about sums it up.

Runa216 said: ClassicGamingWizzz said: woot?????? 5.4 ????? i hate ff 13 cause the game is a bad final fantasy but i gave him a 7.5 score, i gave skyrim a 5 cause skyrim have game breaking bugs , but this :S i don´t agree at all with the score, in this days a 5.0 game is totally garbage ... but if ff gets lots of these scores maibe square go back to the old school formula we all like What game breaking glitches?  I played for over 200 hours so far on PS3 (the worst of the versions) and only had my game freeze on me once.  I encountered more glitches in the 8 hours I played Uncharted 3 than the 200 hours I played on skyrim.  I think people are grossly exagerrating Skyrim's issues.

Then you must be insanely lucky. I had 3 freezes occur 5 minutes between each other. I was considering quitting at this part but I pushed forward, and somehow it didn't freeze again for many hours later. Quest lines bugging out, elemental resistance being at 0, horses falling on my head, dragons flying backwards (though the AI is so retarded they could have been doing this on purpose), freezes, souls not consuming,  frame rate dropping below 15 often, and countless other problems makes me say that certain people are understating the problems rather than exaggerating.

I faced 90% of those issues, and while you may not have countless others are. So it is definitely not an exaggeration.

Wagram said: Runa216 said: ClassicGamingWizzz said: woot?????? 5.4 ????? i hate ff 13 cause the game is a bad final fantasy but i gave him a 7.5 score, i gave skyrim a 5 cause skyrim have game breaking bugs , but this :S i don´t agree at all with the score, in this days a 5.0 game is totally garbage ... but if ff gets lots of these scores maibe square go back to the old school formula we all like What game breaking glitches?  I played for over 200 hours so far on PS3 (the worst of the versions) and only had my game freeze on me once.  I encountered more glitches in the 8 hours I played Uncharted 3 than the 200 hours I played on skyrim.  I think people are grossly exagerrating Skyrim's issues.  Then you must be insanely lucky. I had 3 freezes occur 5 minutes between each other. I was considering quitting at this part but I pushed forward, and somehow it didn't freeze again for many hours later. Quest lines bugging out, elemental resistance being at 0, horses falling on my head, dragons flying backwards (though the AI is so retarded they could have been doing this on purpose), freezes, souls not consuming,  frame rate dropping below 15 often, and countless other problems makes me say that certain people are understating the problems rather than exaggerating. I faced 90% of those issues, and while you may not have countless others are. So it is definitely not an exaggeration.

You poor bastard.  Maybe I am super lucky, but like I said, I played for like 200 hours between two seperate playthroughs and rarely had even t he slightest issue.  Some framerate lags immediately after quick travelling and one freeze was it.  if I was to review it I would have likely given it a 94 but only that low becuase I HEARD of the glitches, not becuase I encountered them.  

brave man giving an FF a score like that around here,you didn't review FFXIII though did you,from reading some of the thread it seems like they think you did