Final Fantasy XIII

It's kind of a shame. The plot is stupid as hell. The combat system is simply no good. There is no music at all (even compared to the first finals). The fairy tale about “bring something, I don’t know what, and go there, I don’t know where” is actually for children.

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The characters are well drawn. The enemies are also replete with details (another thing is that many look very amateurish; even a house with a cannon on small legs from FF9 no longer seems strange).

The environment, when we finally see the big world... in one of the last chapters, it looks nice, the giant creature is still walking in the background.

You can replay the battle without loading and running from the save point. It’s nice when you need to kill a very tough enemy, using “death” with a few percent chance of working on him. Saves a little time.

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The plot is just terrible. Play and listen for yourself. Describing all this nonsense is pointless and long.

To understand what these terms are, which your party sprinkles from the first minutes, you need to open the notes and read. A wonderful immersion into the world. Brilliant.

Constant flashbacks of all the main characters in the first half of the game... First, let's remember what happened a day and 10 minutes ago, because it happened a day and 15 minutes ago... A few times you don't notice it, but then it starts to infuriate you.

Dialogues are very often with stupid pathos, contain a cloud of water that is simply boring to read. As a result, 80% of the chatter in the game is just dull boredom, and you can’t move to the next sentence by pressing the button, like in the classics.

The locations are empty until chapter 11, uninteresting at all, just a straight road. It was as if they were drawing a little, and then ctrl+c, ctrl+v. If you walk through the location for 3-5 minutes, you won’t see anything interesting anymore.

And the first half of the game is endless battles and an incomplete game, there are only three people in it. Some cities and peaceful locations? Yes, there are none. The feeling that you are not in the city is also missing. Even Burmecia destroyed from FF9 looked more like a city than the local Palumpolum. At least you could enter the buildings. The world is tiny, you can’t go back, except for the locations of chapter 11...

Stupid pity: a bloody maniac who killed everyone in a row to achieve his goals, and tried to cut out the party many times, died... And everyone in the party feels sorry for him to the point of tears , who managed to fight him off many times... This is just the bottom.

Extremely poor role-playing system. This is so bad that it simply cannot be worse. The developers decided that the players were stupid and would not have time to control as many as three characters in turn-based combat (since ff7, the intelligence of those playing the series has dropped). You control only one character out of 3 in turn-based battles, yes, that’s why everyone changes professions at once!!! Yes, sometimes you want several other professions instead of the previously established ones, when the boss is already a third dead, but you can’t. Alas.

There is no experience as such, instead points for pumping up the heavily damaged Sphere grid from FF10.

If they kill your controlled Persian, it’s the end of the game. Two other idiots cannot resurrect him...

And the characters have two characteristics, except for level, hits and an action scale from 1 to 6: strength and magic.... And the speed of filling the ATV scale is the same for everyone. Why is she even needed here?

“Excellent navigation” through the menu. Just like in FF4. It turned out that the developers were unable to make removing equipment on a separate button.

The music volume cannot be increased. The music will suit ff10-2 fans. Nobuo's ears would bleed from this.