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Why the Japanese Hate Final Fantasy 13 [Amazon Reviews]
No Snow Villiers, they’re running away from the game.
Well the most anticipated game of the year, Final Fantasy XIII, is about to make it’s way to the American shores. Professional Japanese reviewers loved it! Professional American reviewers loved it! But whats this? The game scored a 3/5 on Amazon Japan player review. It appears Japanese players are split. On one side, they see it as an evolution, on the other side it’s deemed dull and repetitive, amidst all the hype and production.
I took the time to translate (with the best of my ability) certain bad Amazon reviews that gave the game a score of 1/5. Once the American version is released I want to compare if generally, Square Enix made a game that would appeal more towards International communities than their own.
Japanese Player Reviews
“The game stuffed in a lot of terminology and phrases which I found terrible. I wanted to enjoy more of the story, but I had to remember all of these made up words... There isn’t a town either. Plus, shops are attached to a save point, there isn’t even communication with the shopkeeper either. It’s strange to wonder why the producer would remove such features and think it would be fun for an RPG ” ~Mamasan
“This game is like one straight road from start to end. There aren’t that many people you come in contact with. It makes you feel isolated and lonely. You can’t even control the other party members , they just act on their own. Like they would just defend when I didn’t want them to. You really need a brain to understand this story, it’s really incomprehensible. I am very disappointed” ~Faran
“13 is like a terrible “Linear CG Game.” They took away our rights of enjoying an RPG by discarding things like ‘Story’ and ‘Content’.” ~morgan
“The battles were useless. Early on you just repeated the same attacks until you got tired of them. It wasn’t interesting (except the summons!) Later on in the game you will die frequently if you don’t utilize the Optima system. ” ~y
“The journey through this game is like just one long straight path… Generally, I’d evaluate this game as trashy. I feel as if the producer thought that this game would be popular just by slapping the name of Final Fantasy onto it. I feel uneasy about FF Versus after playing this.” ~dustpan
“Where on earth did Final Fantasy go? I’ve been playing FF games before I could even write Hiragana. I’ve been very happy with them since. However the direction of the games has shifted over several years, never returning to what it was. ” ~?
“I regretted my purchase of this game. I felt that it was just light on content and heavy on pretty visuals.” ~
“Final Fantasy 10 was good. Final Fantasy 13 is a pain. (FF12 I just didn’t find interesting.)… Playing this game is painful from beginning to end. [Battlewise,] I feel that we should be able to move in real-time freely. We should be able to walk around to any dungeon we want… I didn’t really feel like playing this narrow path. It wasn’t until Chapter 10 where I was able to actually walk around [in an open field]. That place was large and beautiful, but it still ended up rather annoying than pleasant. ” ~Ruru
“I tried FF13, I was impressed with the quality of the visuals. I didn’t really care much for the beginning but I finally gave up at Chapter 10. I felt stressed out after the amount of game overs I got from battling common enemies. You have to put in a lot of patience and spiritual strength for this game, but for me I just sold it.” ~wind
“This game is like a movie, with many cutscenes that pop up to disturb the tempo of the game… With so many cutscenes, the player feels left behind. In fact, I don’t even understand what the main characters are doing in the first 2-4 hours of gameplay. At least there is a dictionary within the game [to explain the terminology.] Battles get repetitive. It’s because much of the battle system is locked away in the early parts of the game. They should have implemented something that allows us to access these systems whenever we want to. ” ~Pundel
“…It feels like watching a visual novel with no choices [for dialogue]. This isn’t even an RPG muchless… [Squarenix] what were you doing all this time when you postponed the game?” ~waiting
“As a full time working adult, I can stay up all night with a game if it’s interesting. As for this game, I can only spend 2 hours with it. ” ~
“The story isn’t well developed. I felt it was childish and full of contradictions. I’d say it felt like “playing a game on rails.” ~
“Story: Not interesting. I get irritated with indecisive characters, especially “Hope” in particular. Battle: If you do it properly you can win, but, you may make a mistake if you don’t understand what you are selecting for the optima system. Most uninteresting thing: Buying weapons and items within the save point…” ~polarbear
The story, music, and graphics are good… We play with the main characters through this narrow straight path. Afterwards, we are shown a cutscene > forced battle > cutscene > and continue playing again through this straight unwavering path. This pattern continues on for eternity. You may hear some chatter in a town, but even a concept like “shopping” isn’t in the game. The town’s only existence is just so that the main characters may pass through it… [The town] is actually a part of the dungeon so to speak. ~monpuchi
“I was disgusted with this uninteresting story. I had to pull myself away from the story, the ambiguous background and setting, the stinky characters with their poor dialogue, you can’t feel any empathy for any of it. What the heck is a Fal’cie? Is there not a “regular” town? An Airship? Can we at least have conversations with the people in towns? I found the terminology to be dull, “Purge the L’cie of Pulse” I don’t even understand that… There weren’t many antagonist characters, sure they did have many types of similar enemy soldiers and weapons, but you couldn’t feel any affection (or sense of attachment) to them… Although, the battles were interesting, I just wasn’t able to become very familiar with it…. I miss some of the FF of olden days. Where did Final Fantasy go? Yes the graphics are beautiful, but I believe the script, which is the most important aspect of an RPG went to trash [in this game.] I am really disappointed considering I was a FF fan for such a long time. ” ~maru
The Best Worst Review
This review was actually quite funny to read. I think he kind of rambled off and on but you can see this game has affected him.
“Good Points about this game…
Well, the movie scenes are pretty!
The main character is a hot chick!
Well that’s it, just two [good] points.
It’s hard to even relax in this game because there isn’t really a town. You keep fighting from beginning to end. Heck, the battles tend to go on.. And, for some reason the producer thought the players would be strong, so he made the enemies stronger. Maybe he thought we’d enjoy this.
I want to be able to quickly advance through a dungeon, but the enemies are soo strong… I get really irritated…
This may be unrelated but, for those of you who quit smoking, you really should have never done that. I really want a cigarette so badly right now. I am really stressed out.
The battles has this command strategy called “Optima.” The characters look great when they pose, but… During that moment, you are completely defenseless. ‘Cause if the character you are controlling dies, it’s Game Over!
The story is the worst. Right at the start of the game, you get these incredibly confusing terms like Fal’cie and L’cie..
When Square Enix came to be, their Final Fantasy games turned to crap.” ~hiro
Well there you have it. From this I conclude the reason Japanese hate Final Fantasy is due to it’s linearity, confusing terminology, and lack of towns. The game does indeed have a city known as “Nautilus” which you can explore to some extent. But in reality, it is just a place you visit to continue the story. After you complete the story, the game throws up several missions where players can kind of explore areas they’ve seen.
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I agree completely. I bought this game yesterday on launch day, played for about 2 hours. I wanna sell it already. WTF were Sqenix thinking!! They worked for like half a decade for this piece of crap? And WTF is “Heroes don’t run from fights!” OMG I WANTED TO CHUCK MY TV OUT THE WINDOW BECAUSE OF THE CRINGE INDUCING DIALOG
PISSED. pisssed. really really really pissed. 3 years for this? i mean graphics are nice. but ill go back to 7.8.9 on my ps1. those are real games. this is well pressing buttons… every one knows how u hate that one kid who just presses buttons? and just messes things up. well if thats you this game is for you ( for the first LONG while.) all you have to do is press buttons….. SUCKS! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EPIC Fail!
Well here is what I have to say about this. ……………………………………………
…Hey there Square Enix……… You feeling alright? Do you know what your doing to SquareSofts reputation? Your F#^@ING IT UP THE @ss-HOLE.
Do you even care? NO YOU FRIKKEN LOVE IT! Your using the Name Final Fantasy as a trade mark to make money you don’t give a toss about the fans anymore, every single title after Final Fantasy 10 has been utter trash and the worst thing about it is your not even trying to solve the problem your newest release FF13 is even worse the FF12 wich was in my opion the worst Final Fantasy game I’ve ever played. Oh but not anymore this pathetic excuse for an RPG has make me loose all faith in Final Fantasy in the making. I was also disgusted with the dialog in Final Fantasy Dissidia on PsP. YOU DIDN’T EVEN GET THE CHARACTERS RIGHT, you chose one thing about a character in the game and decided to base the characters entire personality on that one thing. As an example, you destroyed Cloud and turned him into an emo pussy fagget….. Wtf? I hope you never remake Final Fantasy 7 because you’ll just destroy it and make it all about the graphics because it seems all you care about now is a fancy looking game with no actual gameplay talk it up heaps, delay selling it for years and put a hefty price on it.
I’m a massive Final Fantasy Fan I’ve played every single Final fantasy, 7-8-9-10 old classics so awesome every one of them. FF10-2 ….. Congrats you made Riku and Yuna Sluts, well done, apart from that the game was so easy a two year old could play it. FF11 online? enough said..wtf? FF12 was basically final fantasy 11 but without the ability to play online and they just auto killed everything… Wow well done…… FF13.. lets see awesome graphics cool looking characters story seems alright, but apart from that how is this even an RPG? How is this even a game? It’s more like watching a movie….The game basically plays it’self. Squar Enix you FAIL. Give up because one day your not going to have any fans left and the Final Fantasy Trade mark will be in the junk section in the Game store.
FF1-Classic
FF2-Classic
FF3-COOL CLASSIC
FF4-AWSOME CLASSIC
FF-5-Hell Fun Game
FF6-Hard but still kinda coolish well some people might like it
FF-7 BEST GAME EVERY MADE!!! MERR
FF 8 AS GOOD AS FF7 BEST GAME EVER MADE!! AGAIN!!!
FF 9 ONLY JUST UNDER THE BEST GAMES EVER MADE!!! AGAIN!!!
FF 10 ONLY JUST UNDER THE ONLY JUST UNDER THE BEST GAME MADE EVER!!!
FF11- Money Money Money MOney MONEY!!!! I’m square Enix GIVE ME MONY
FF12- I”M SO LAME I EVEN HAVE PETER PAN AS A MAIN CHARACTER wow wtf happend to the battle system it’s like my ball sack is actually cooler then this game.
FF13 .. …. ….. I waited years to play no no no sorry WATCH THIS GAME? Apart from watching this game all I’m doing is pressing the same butten over and over again. I can’t play as more then one character in this game? There is no strategy in this game? There are no alternative story or gameplay in this game? You don’t level up in this game? …… You can’t go anywhere you want in this game? There are no inns, shops, quests, ANYTHING at all. You get your Health back after ever fight……. Cough Cough Cough Cough. If I had a 2year old Baby and I sat it down next to my TV Chewing on an Xbox360 or PS3 Control it would master this game without any difficulty at all. F-U S-E
I Baught the Limited Edition Game and Limited Edition Guide Book. The guide book I mine as well throw it away because I can’t even miss anything in this game anyway. I spent $180 on this game. And it’s not even a game.
You sir are my hero…
Yours!!!
I love this comment so much that I think you just made me gay.
Its good to know Im not alone! 1-10 = awsome 11-13 FUUUUUUU @#(*$&@#*($&@#(*&$@#*(&
You, sir…are an amazing human being. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You are strong. And wise. And–(STFU!!!) heh heh
Square Enix Can the Enix Side of This compony please just exclude themselves from all participation in making Final Fantasy 15. Just let SquareSoft Do all the work and I mean “ALL OF IT“.
Stop being such tools, the game is awesome.
Try playing longer than 2 hours and you’ll see.
Alan… AMEN! FF7 by far the best. ff8 awsome 9 kicks but 10 ehhh starting to lose it but still pretty good… yeah after that. garbage. Katzroy. ur stupid.
how is the terminology confusing anyone not a complete moron can grasp it as well as the story the batlle system is awseome as its a cross between 10 and 12 shops at every save point good no bull**** 30 mins of exploring just to continue with the story fights that are actually challenging dont get me wrong its no ps1 FF game but srsly if they kept using the same formulas as VII-IX it would have been horribly stale instead of nice and refreshing anyone complaining is one a nostalgia fag or an utter retard
I’m guessing the reason why the terminology was confusing to those Japanese players was because of the use of English words; “Pulse” “Focus” “Purge the l’cie” “Coccoon” etc…
Alternatively it would be the equivalent of replacing any of those phrases with Japanese terminology for our English version. “hazusu the L’cie”
I’m enjoying this game so far. The characters are wonderful, the story is excellent, the battle system, while not the best, is a lot of fun, and the straight linearity of the game is a SUCH a relief after so many RPGs where you have to run across the world map to find some obscure location, crawl through the dungeon, backtrack, sit through a brief, minute-long story sequence, backtrack SOME MORE, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Actualy I think its one of the best Final Fantasys. Its actualy really good. If yew play longer it gets better.
My friend pretty much said the same thing, “everything before chapter 8 is boring, it gets more interesting after chapter 10.” Kind of coincides with one of the Japanese reviews.
For the confusing terminology he said they explain it better in Chapter 9.
I think this game places a metaphorical brick wall that discourages gamers from continuing. Then once you continue playing passed a certain point it starts to open up.
Next FF game should definitely balance exploration and linearity and try to wow you at least every hour.
Added some more recent Japanese 1/5 reviews.
The problem is that to reach chp 10 of grand pulse with the open field, you have to go thru 25 hours of tedious unilinear maps with absolutely no control. The bull that it takes that long to figure out the controls is just that bull****. By chp 4 only a 2 year old could not have figured out the system. This game fails epicly.
i think its obvious whats happening…the games great but in the beginning they just didnt get it right and no ones willing to stick around till later chapters…i will i guess cause iv always been about final fantasy, n it gets really hard so i like challenges…but ppl i know it doesnt make it right for square enix..but how many dam game companies just focus on the graphics the graphics blah blah blah…u play a game that lasts 2 days, like 10 hours at most then wow i saw good graphics…final fantasy always had plus 40hrs games…ff10 my timer was on 120hours and i still loved it!….but i think even square enix is falling in the trap of just graphics graphics blah blah blah…that was wat i loved about ff it had a story and so much to do, even the graphics were great but it wasnt the main focus!!
After playing FF13 for myself I realized even further the need for extra stuff to do in this game, early on would help. Yes many times NPC dialogue and minigames are useless, but without them the game doesn’t divert your attention away from the ultimate goal. For example on Chapter 11 i found my self doing side quests and grindings and some exploring (things I like to do in an rpg) When i found myself back on Eden in chapter 12, I got really frustrated that I wasn’t able go back to pulse, found myself stuck and underpowered and felt the need to grind someplace else. Chapter 13 was nice enough to give you the choice to go back to Pulse before even completing the game.
Yeah I agree with your last comment. Chapter 10 and 11 are cool, chapter 12 is terrible so far and it looks like I’m going to need to return my game to gamestop because the graphics just glitched out in chapter 12.
To be honest, I wouldnt want to be repetitive with most negative reviews but I have to Agree with MOST of them.
I was truly disapointed when I reached about chapter 8 when I learned from a buddy of mine that the game only has 13 chapters. I was just like wtf so no world map no airships no towns no no no just plain run straight and hitting the “X” button for 2hours before deciding it was too much brain disturbance for the day.
I really had so much expectations about this game prior to it coming it, (like most of the fans out here) but what the fck i remember playing FF7 for over 200hours ! this game is only 50hours of gameplay with awesome graphics and no content at all.
Seriously SquareEnix WTF ?
Very Good: Graphics are omg amazing and the fckin chics are hot…
Good : Battle system is good and new but it gets boring when you only start switching from two different styles because the rest becomes pointless.
Bad: mostly everything said by other reviewers Japs/International. no town, no shops, no relaxation, no airships, no world map, just a bunch of no no no.
Very Bad: Enix joining the team of SquareSoft. Utterly disapointing Straight foward non-stop battle>move>battle>cutscene>move>cutscene>battle>cutscene.
*** and i also downloaded a few of your FF games on the iphone, and except the FF1 and FF2 the others suck , like that stupid song tuning FF game, give me my fckin 10$ for that piece of crap not worth playing, ruining my memory of FF tactic.
Oh well I guess prior to buying any other FF i will first TRY the beta/demo or rent it.
What a huge fail.
Idk what everyones talkin about this game is great the best game i ever played and i played alot of games, People have problems!!
Tools???? this game really did suck that bad bro!!!!! it did!. it was $65 dollars. I got laid off and I’m on Unemployment, have bills. House payment, car payment etc. yet I spent $65 dollars on this game for NOTHING I took it back to gamestop and got $25!! a $40 dollar loss.and to say to give it chance? I am UNEMPLOYED at the moment I gave 60hrs of chance AND IT SUCKED!!!!!!!!
A little contribution from France : I HATE THIS GAME !
Since the beginning this is so boring…. X X X X X X X L1 (wow) X X X X X X X L1 Down…. i can do it only 2 hours after i’m gonna puke inside my ps3 to kill it.
Graphics : Wow the bitches are amazing, the gays… oops the guys are fine too. Environment is not specially good, well done, that’s all. Cinematique as usual are very good.
Music : Trash music like i could listen if i was trisomic 21, or groom service in a hotel
Story : AAHHHHHH what kind of bullshit is it ? Fal’Cie ? L’Cie ? Who invented the most stupid names ever ? Only devils could make a game so bad for my soul, so i can guess that the real meaning is Fallen L’cifer, and L’cifer.
Each time there is a cut scene i want to throw the game through my window. This is so childish, and the worst character ever are :
Hope : Little ga* motherfu*** with no bal** with the most annoying face and personality ever, i can call him “the worst rpg hero ever”
Lightning : A frigid girl, a feminist, she hits men like she has the right to. Everytimes she does it i hope that the guy will beat her bad and ra*e her to teach her the lesson, no charm at all, sexy like an xbox pad. I hate her. She’s a robot.
Vanille : The lesbian bitch always smiling and giggling and loving flowers. She run like she has a stick in the as*, and i hate her in a bad way. No charm at all, like lightning she act like she’s braver than men. Soon after the end she’ll do an operation to become a shemale.
Sazh : The gayest black guy ever, far from a 50 cent, a Denzel Washington, the guy never grew up in the ghetto, he’s always afraid, a lot more than the surrounding girls, and you know like me that is totally the shame. The only thing i like is his chocobo (that lives in his afro-hair… how ridiculous, the animal pee and shit in it too ?)
Fang : The lesbian beauty, very hot, but as the other girls in this game she hits men, she’s braver, stronger than men. A feminist robot, trying to act like men. She likes to kiss vanille and want to convert lightning to. I hate her.
Snow : “I am the hero” guy, but get beaten by almost every girl in the game, like he’s their bitch. He never beat them back, no, he’s above that lol… He want the lighting’s sister but he’s gay, and he knows it. He always high on LSD
Sorry for the bad english sometimes this is not my native language. You’ll understand my feeling i hope …. I said the name of this guy …
I love this game i got this game for XBox360 for the Achievements it a good RPG i play all the FFs FFVII FFVIII FFIX FFX but this game is linear Square Enix do good on FF vs XIII
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I’m starting to think that the people who “enjoyed” this “game” are either easily impressed by visuals (regardless of content) or… in denial (having spent tons of $$$ for the limited edition of the game, its strategy guide, and random related gew-gaws, they HAVE to ENJOY this game, just to try and get their money’s worth). There are people out there who are neither of those two… but they’re a rarity. My bro played it past 2 hours… he reached chapter 8 and… played something else. He didn’t even bother finishing the game since he got bored. Me? I’ve never even touched the game, because from just watching it, I could already tell that I’ll hate the game. FFXII put me to sleep after 4 hours of gameplay (at least my bro was able to finish that game). I can replay FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, and FFX… but I never finished anything after FFX. Nearly ALL those Japanese Amazon reviews are spot on! The only strong emotion I felt from this overbudgeted, overhyped, all visuals/no content rubbish is disappointment. Three years in development, all for nothing!
Speaking of Strategy Guides… This was probably the first RPG I ever played where I found there was no use for it considering everything was in front of you. The only parts of the game I could have seen it being used was probably the Barthandelus battles. Turning off the Map felt like the only way to discover things on your own.
Then there’s Red Dead Redemption… During my long rants to convince my friends as to how sucky FF13 was, I used RDR as an example. I saw that my friend bought both FF13 and RDR. He played a little bit of FF13, then played RDR for a weeks. Even during this time he still convinced himself that FF13 was great. Bringing this to light I asked how come RDR gets more of your time than FF13?
There is a good possibility that the people that “enjoyed” this game are simply paid off by SE to post everywhere on the internet. Either that or they will like anything released by Square.
I had no hopes for this game. I played Last Remnant and it sucked, Infinite Undiscovery sucked, and Star Ocean 4 was at least finishable, although it was pretty bad too. Since FF VII the FFs have been on decline as well, IX was decent but nothing memorable, X had great voice acting but was otherwise a very shallow game. XII was pretty much an abortion.
The only games holding this terrible company up now are the DQ games. VIII was very good and IX is a lot of fun to play. I think the DQ games remain good because they are legendary in Japan and this horrible company lets the main people behind DQ still handle everything. So it is essentially the same system every time but a different story, and a few other tweaks here and there.
This game was released in March and now in August I finally got around to playing it, but I don’t know if I will continue it. I’m on Chapter 3 and this game is so bad it’s depressing. I am going to wait for Fallout: New Vegas or the next Dragon Age game for my Xbox, otherwise it’s back to the DS where I can play actual good RPGs. If Lost Odyssey 2 or Blue Dragon 2 ever come out I’ll probably play those as well. I’m not sure if I will touch another non-DQ SE game ever again, this one really takes the cake for awfulness.
I crawled over the finish line of this game yesterday, yet I got it on launch day. God what a chore. I need to Purge (lol, Purge) myself by raging and ranting.
I don’t get it. FFXIII was supposed to be revolutionizing and improving the formula, giving us fans the “perfect” FF. How the hell is stripping FF to the bare bones, abandoning decent character development, abandoning exploration and immersion in the game world and abandoning a memorable script and game content in favour of 1 million pretty HD glaze coats giving us the perfect game? The battle system is a step in the right direction, fast paced and a great spectacle…but it doesn’t seem finished, and the next FF won’t build on it at all because it’s going Kingdom Hearts style.
This “streamlining” of the game, was apparently done so we could experience the uhmayzing story!!11!!! Really? This story right here? “Hi I’m here to destroy the Fal’Cie” (me: What?) “Oh noez I became a L’Cie” (me: Eh?) “Oh noez Ragnarok!” (me: Who?) “So what do we need to do? I dunno, let’s just randomly run in different directions for the sake of painfully forced development before meeting up again and continuing to have absolutely no cohesion together due to not knowing what the f**k our goal is” (me: >_>) “We have to destroy Orphan and Cocoon to bring back ur mom?, no wai Mr Monodimensional living statue villain” (me: This guy makes Sephiroth’s motives look crystal clear by comparison)
“HAY, let’s all go to Pulse” (me: Why?)”Let’s all go to Pulse” (me: Still asking why…hey look an area which isn’t a tunnel! *faints*) “Hmmm, it seems like going to Pulse didn’t advance things at all and this whole burying our heads in the sand approach isn’t working. The bad guy says to go back to Cocoon so let’s go” (me: zzzzzzzzzz)
“Destroy Orphan and Cocoon. No wai! That’s your focus. Oh, okay then, let’s just do exactly what the genocidal statue wants, despire prattling on about SAVE COCOON, PROTECT COCOON, PROTECT EVERYONE, throughout this entire game. I’m sure a forced deus ex machina will save the day, either that or some vague, omnipotent deity with no mention up till now will help us out” (me: O_O*)
“Oh look, there’s the deus ex machina, right on cue. Thanks Vanille and Fang, totally had no idea Ragnarok could be used to save Cocoon, what with it constantly being referred to as a mindless being existing only to destroy. What a twist! And oh look, everyone conveniently wakes up from “eternal” crystal stasis for the happy ending.” (me: *mourns the death of FF*)
The characters are mainly atrocious also. After I stopped marvelling at how cool and androgenous Lightning looked while leaping through the air with her gimmicky sword, I realized this was all she was about. She’s an empty shell. Snow is a moron who didn’t get punched by enough women. Hope is an abomination of teen stereotypes and cheesy speeches. Vanille must have got lost on the way to the set of FFX-2. That explains the cringeworthy “perky girl” routine and the grating oversexualization. And it also explains why Paine looked so out of place in there, she was a last minute addition to replace the errant Vanille!
And the script! “Moms are tough” “Heroes don’t need plans” “These people need heroes” “Your hero’s on the way baby” “We live to make the impossible possible” “Sugar and Rainbows” “Worst birthday ever” “PROTECT COCOON x 1000″ “SAVE COCOON x 2000″ “SERAH!!!! x 3,000,000″ Seriously, this crap makes the laughing scene in FFX, or the dodgy FFVII translation seem like masterpieces. The worst thing is how seriously SE and this over-inflated, pretentious game take themselves.
SE wanted to give us the perfect game? FF was never perfect. IV, V, VI, VII, Tactics, IX and X were not perfect, but I loved them anyway. And FFXIII is so far away from even great with flaws it’s not funny. A classic case of trying too hard to fix something that isn’t broken. If SE continue down this road I just know FF has nothing to offer me anymore.
..We all know Katzroy is the real TOOL here. FF13′s story was absolutely attrocious, empty and dare I say, more stupid than even FF10′s story. It’s clear that people like Katzroy are easily swayed by anything that has “Final Fantasy” slapped on the label as long as it has high quality graphics. OOO SHINY!
Screw that. Square Enix has fallen from grace and over the last few years it’s become clear they’re no longer attempting to cater to their actual fans but instead cater to people who wouldn’t know a good story (which I will say is an ESSENTIAL part of the Role Playing Game experience) if it bit them in the ass.
Money, money, money. “Hell as long as it has good graphics who cares? The people who do buy it won’t be able to analyze it quickly enough before the SHINY syndrome takes over…unless they’re THOSE people..we don’t like thinkers. They don’t count.”
This series is clearly dead if it took 3 years for FF13 to come along and that’s the best they can offer; something that looks pretty but has barely any substance. Square Enix, take note.
WE CAN STILL TASTE THE SHIT UNDER ALL YOUR SPRINKLES!
“WE CAN STILL TASTE THE SHIT UNDER ALL YOUR SPRINKLES!”
YES!!! I fucking love it!
I took the time to read all the comments I could muster without finding myself frustrated. It’s been made apparent that everyone of these people are either a bit immature or are too stupid to understand the story. From the beginning of the game the story is understandable, what’s so difficult about it? The straight forward path and constant fights do get ridiculously tedious; however, there isn’t really a dull moment. The reason it’s like this is to challenge you and give you something new, a lot of people get bored doing the same thing over and over again. But if you could just run on through without a problem then the game would be positively boring. Granted there isn’t much exploring to be had, but in any other final fantasy game the exploring was still limited, obviously not to this degree. The fact that you don’t have towns to stop in is because in cocoon you are a type of world renown fugitive and in pulse the world is wild and desolate and had been for 100+ years after the first birth of Ragnarok, these are things you learn in the game or should have at least grasped after the first chapter and during chapter 10. Everything falls together nicely and the game’s story is sophisticated but not so much that it’s difficult to understand. Just because you dislike one or two aspects of the game doesn’t mean it’s a bad game. As in every game the story and play gets better the further in you go. Yeah , there are only “13″ chapters but I’ve been playing beyond that just to get my characters at a maxed level with a maxed weapon. It’s a good game, like any other final fantasy and it has made changes like any other final fantasy. Over all it keeps you interested in it’s own way. I honestly think that if you’re a kid then you wouldn’t understand the “no freedom” feeling the game is supposed to give you because you are a L’cie enemy of cocoon bent on “destroying” it. the world in the game doesn’t see you as someone that should be free so it is how you should feel when playing the game. Don’t be a dumb-ass and judge the game just because you don’t understand what’s going on or why it is the way it is. If you honestly can’t figure it out on your own without reading the “data-log” then read the fucking “data-log”. Understanding a game is a step in the enjoyment of one but just because you cant understand it doesn’t give you the right to insult it. Granted I’ll say this, it could have been better in some little ways; for instance I would have loved to talk to the random NPC humans in certain area’s to better understand how they are feeling. But again the game was still enjoyable, quit whining and go play some less sophisticated and easier games like Halo: Reach on xbox-live or something.