Daedalus1942 said:
SUPA FRANKY said:
In my opinion, it deserves all the sales it has gotten. Final Fantasy has renewed my love for the series after the shit buns that FF11 and FF12 were. So... Victory Theme I guess!
It's pretty damn good, though I do have probably three complaints. I'm only in Chapter 4 atm, so it might not be valid later but in any case, It's extremely linear, I can't earn any money to buy things, and... I'm not a fan of the whole being completely healed after a battle. It doesn't really make much sense, it makes the battles too easy and the game is pretty much holding my hand the whole time.
[spoiler\]The only time I struggled was with the Fang's Eidolon Gestalt gauge, because I'm crap with the timing.[/spoiler]
I can only tell you what I've told others who have said the same thing.
It gets better.
The game does have the primary problem of being too boring, for too long, and most people aren't patient enough to give it an honest try. If you're still playing, awesome, because by about Chapter 7 or so, things start becoming a lot more interesting (snow stops being a whiny brat for starters). I'm deep in Chapter 12 (of I believe 13).
The combat system is less about selecting your ability (although being able to do that does come in handy sometimes), but more about using the right Paradigms at the right times to stay alive, do the right kinda damage and status effect maintenance, it'll become second nature. There are some fights I simply cannot win (yet) and all of them are optional, yes, meaning you have to go FIND them. There are some critters who are not only MASSIVE in size, but also very tough, requiring a bit more thought than (Press A) until dead. Being healed after every battle is certainly different, but it does cut down nicely on the actions of; Go to menu, heal heal heal, exit menu, continue; after every fight, which in my opinion is welcome.
Money becomes available at about Chap 11 (when the game opens up and says; "do what you want", and honestly you don't need it until then.
FFXIII is easily one of my favorite RPGs EVER and easily the best JRPG I've played in years.