I have the feeling one user in this thread may be a bit biased... >_>

Meh. I enjoyed playing through FFXIII and FFXIII-2, despite the negativety surrounding those games. So I suspect I'll like this one too.

I'll probably pick up Lightning Returns a month or two after release, when it drops down to £15.. or something.

I remember them giving more ways to stop and manipulate time as a response to people bitching about that mechanic.

And then didn't rebalance it, because of dev time, being lazy who knows. Which is dissapointing, it sounds like previously it would have provided you with ample time, while actually using the 13 days and creating more tension. Now it's sort of just there.

It still looks fun, the demo was fun, I'm still excited for it.

it's a shame though that whenever Toriyama's Teams have good ideas gameplay wise imo (X-2, XIII-2, LR), he has 18 month or shorter development cycles. It's a shame he didn't try and polish these ideas when he had like a 5 year dev cycle of the original XIII.

Oh Square... How low have you fallen

I thought FFXIII itself was a good game and pretty much did everything that could be done short of 5 staring every mission for platinum. However, these sequels aren't as good. Mostly for the lack of polish and recycled material. With all that said, a score of 4 is just waaay too low. I'd have given a 6 or 7 after reading that review. Anything below 5 = shovelware with today's numbering standards.

Cheap bastardo lol I agree! That's what I'm doing too. I'll get the trilogy. =D

Whatever. I think the game looks excellent and am quite hyped to play it! Not to mention, I really don't think this is going to foreshadow the reviews it will end up getting.

Anyway, I'm not going to give this review much attention. I mean, did he really spell "towns" with a 'z'?

Well at least Final Fantasy IV had more compelling characters.

And I liked the gameplay in FF IV more. I really tried to like FF XIII but I was just fooling myself.

And yet, Toriyama finds himself a position on SE's quality assurance committee.

        Maybe I should lower my expectations for XV........ You know, just in case......