I managed to play around 5 hours but then got so bored I didin't touch for it over month.I will try to continue this at summer when I'm soooo bored, but this is really dissapointing.

Did you get to the part where you get your magic and paradigms? If you didn't you should really give it a couple more hours, the first chapters are really boring comparing to the rest of the game where the battle system is complete.

Yeep just played to that part and maybe hour longer.It surely got better but come on..

Just keep playing it, it gets better every minute except when your with just sazh & vanille in one early part of the game. It has a boring start, 2nd most boring start behind FFX in the FF series.

They should each be a point lower each now.

I realized how boring they really were on my 2nd playthrough of the game which I just finished. Since I understood the end bits better now I might bump up chapter 13's score a bit.

After seeing what the battle system eventually becomes Chapters 1+2 seem very misleading.

@darthdem01

really? u liked going to collect a cactus flower (FF12 strting hours) more than ff13's opening? i liked ff13 opening as it put u right into the action. 4 me chptr 4 was boring.

Actually if you play FF12 again you'll know that the start is VERY GRIPPING...with the war outbreak, Lord Rassler dying.....and so on. The starrt is amazing

Yeah the cactus collecting bit is boring BUT then going into the palace is really cool and it all had some kind of a charm.

Whereas FF13's first 5 hours...well all the trailers spoilt what happened in the first 5 hours of the game....nothing unexpected happens in them...maybe thats why it seemed more boring than it should have.

And the paradigm system wasn't available which is so annoying when your replaying the game.....sorry but FF12 starts of really well, better than 13, 10 & 8 even.

But whats important is the whole product & how the game carries on....for me FF12 got progressively worse after the opening 4 - 5 hours compared to other FF's.

I actually really liked the beginning of FFXIII alot. It was really great story-wise and the characters were very interesting when first introduced. Much better start story-wise then most jrpgs IMO.

@darth

The start of FFX is the best, Zanarkand getting destroyed, Auron being all epic like and the heavy metal song - Otherworld. Its awesome.
FFXII was pretty awesome as well with the war starting
FFXIII's start with the train and instant action was really clever, however it was quite similar to FFVII's start which was great aswell.