Final Fantasy XIII-2 Gets Launch Trailer

KeRaSh [Member]
01/02/2012 at 11:51

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I know reviews can never be unbiased but let’s say I had to rate Skyrim, a game which I cannot see myself enjoying, I would never give it a rating of 3 because personal issues aside, it’s a great game and I feel the same should apply to some extent to reviews.
So FFXIII-2 can be really frustrating for someone but for every person out there that is annoyed by something in the game there are let’s say for the sake of the argument 100 who really enjoy it. Would that justify rating a game down tremendously? I’m slightly shifting the conversation to the discussion of reviews in general but I can imagine that this has happened to the really bad FFXIII-2 review.
Of course I haven’t played XIII-2 yet but I’m very sure that it could never turn out to be a 3/10 game. The only reason I can imagine for such a low score is the fact that many people were annoyed with the turn that XIII took for the franchise, which kind of made it cool for people to hate on the game, even though as a stand alone game, it’s great. People expect the same old formula for Final Fantasy games over and over again but I’m actually glad that SquareEnix is not sitting on their asses rehashing old battle systems and stuff like that. It’s a franchise with mostly stand alone games that share some lore similarities with monsters and creatures. Comparing XIII to VII is just silly. No Mario game can ever be as awesome as SMB3 was. This doesn’t mean that every Mario game that came out after 3 was crap. They moved on and tried new things with the franchise and I’m glad they did just that with XIII.

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KeRaSh [Member]
01/02/2012 at 13:02

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Like I said, monsters and creatures (Moogles, Chocobos, summons, etc.) are part of the franchise and often carry over between the different games but I haven’t come across “blatant copying” yet after playing VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2, XI, XII and XIII. At least I wasn’t aware of it and if you compare those games they are all very different: Characters, battle systems, worlds, settings, story, weapons, magic, summons, etc.

I can only speak for my experience and those of the people around me who have played the game but nobody compared XIII to a grind fest. To be honest, if anything I’d say VII is the FF game that I would associate with grinding the most. Back then I never paid much attention to side quests and that was when I still relied on video game magazines to provide me with game hints so I took the easiest route which was the main story line. Needless to say I got my ass kicked numerous times and was unable to finish the game because my party was not fit to survive the final battle. So years later I played through the game again and after some grinding towards the end of the game was actually able to finish the game.
I never had to do this with XIII except for the trophies, which I did because I wanted to, not because the game forced me to. I’d say it’s not hard to finish XIII without having to grind as long as you pay attention to your Paradigms and find a strategy that works.

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