Chrono Trigger Guardian battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuUHB-vMwX0

FFXIII Anima battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTxAZnDLP-0

Opinions?

Personally I prefer FF XIII fast paced gameplay over Chrono Trigger, but I also like Chrono Trigger's battle system. And before anyone says FF XIII is just auto battle, I only play FF XIII on manual mode, as auto battle is boring.

Well the only thing I liked about FF13 was the battle system, Chrono trigger also has a fun battle system but not as good as 13's

I just thought of how Chrono Trigger had 3 members end game to choose from like FFXIII, and thought these bosses were also very symetrical to compare. i'm not asking people to pick what is better just to take a look down memory lane, and be objectionable with the critisism of both of these games.

So many say that the Battle System is bad for FFXIII (which I completely disagree with) but at the same time no where on the internet does anyone say that Chrono Triggers Battle System was/is boring. I just find that completely laughable that all anyone wants to remember about Chrono Trigger is the Time Travel concept and the Multiple Endings.

Yet it has a very primitive combat system. A merging or hybrid of Top downish Action RPG and ATB guage with the standard attack and techniques and combined techniques to round it out. I haven't played it in years but I believe that is the extent of it. I wish people were true fans of the genre and could actually draw upon all areas when reminising or rating RPG's and not just point out an item or two and say yep that has to be the best. It's so annoying when you know the people who compare RPG's or JRPG's need more experience playing "all" of them or do us all a favor and rate specifically each aspect.

And what should be the criteria for judging a JRPG?

Obviously the the story, the characters, the artwork, the battle system, the soundtrack, the voice acting (if any), innovation what does this JRPG do different than others (example = time traveling), if it pulls from an older or more classic story tropes is that necessarily a bad thing if it does it creatively or with a different enthiusiasm?

I wonder if people can be critical to certain games like a Mario or a Chrono Trigger. I think there are some people who can't or choose not to because of some kind of Nostalgia almost like telling your children that Santa is fake people lack the ability to critisise games areas that were not so great looking back, and possibly C grade for it's time.

I don't know if that made any sense, but I'm going with it.

FF13 has stoped me purchasing anymore FF games.

That should give you an idea on what i think about it.

This is what I mean.

You didn't like the characters, the story, the artwork, the game design, the voice acting, the bosses, the equipment/weapons, the cutscenes?

You didn't like any of those items about the game I mention? Because when you do this you lead people to believe that everything else in the game is crap/garbage. And again I diagree tremendously with you if you didn't think the voice acting was very well done, or the soundtrack didn't have some really good tracks, or that the artwork and graphical design was fantastic, eeeek the cutscenes were beautiful.  So really, are you serious?  I think both of these games have so much to offer and I don't understand peoples comments like yours. I don't get how they rate these games when they cannot elaborate why.

And I would like to hear your reasons why. You gave me NO ideas.

Hated the characters apart from Sazh, Story was good but told very badly, voice acting was cringe worthy. I consider it to be the worst Final Fantasy ever created, and I played the heck out of it ( Platted 13 and 13-2) http://psnprofiles.com/trophies/226-FINAL-FANTASY-XIII/Vankwisha http://psnprofiles.com/trophies/1226-FINAL-FANTASY-XIII-2/Vankwisha

I brought the game on launch. I never finished it. It is the only FF game i have played and not completed. Story was crap. Game far to linear. The characters were annoying. It was just so boring. That game did not deserve the sales it got. It shows with the sequels that this pile of cow dung left a bad taste in peoples mouths

What made you like Sazh so much and not Vanille because they basically share a huge chunk of play time together. I found Vanilles dialog very playful and cute/funny with Sazh. Which contrasted very nicely from his pain towards not knowing what could become of his young son in the face of a enslaved world take over. They were a good Yin/Yang combination, and made each other feel more positive. It is very well constructed and well done imho.