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So after a weekend spent playing Final Fantasy XIII, I'm still not exactly sure what I think about it.
The battle system is pretty fun - and it had better be, since that's basically all the game is. There's no puzzles, or quests; just a bunch of battles, then a cutscene, then some more battles, then another cutscene, and so on for about nine hours so far.
Of the six main characters - at least, I think the sixth is a main character - there's exactly one whom draegonhawke and I couldn't peg as a fusion of two characters from previous installments; I can't really fault them for it, considering how often I recycle character personalities; and they all seem to work fairly well. Plus, there's no one I really don't like in this game - even the kid who acts (and looks) kind of like Vaan somehow managed to avoid the annoyingness.
I think I like the story, although it's hard to tell because I'm still figuring out what's going on. And the game does continue Final Fantasy's war on free will; now, you can't even choose who your party's leader is. (Which is doubly annoying, because in the new battle system the party leader is the only character you directly control, and if the leader gets KO'd, everyone else just apparently throws up their hands and the game ends.)
So, I don't know. The first time I played FF7, I didn't start liking it until I'd gotten out of Midgar, and it didn't really feel like I'd gotten into FF9 until about two-thirds of the way through. (Of course, FF8 made progressively less sense the longer I played it.) So far, it's done enough to keep me mostly satisfied; but if something more doesn't start happening soon, I'll start to get annoyed.
It being a Final Fantasy, the graphics are amazing - even relative to other PS3 games. There's almost no telling between the FMVs and gameplay anymore.
The battle system is pretty fun - and it had better be, since that's basically all the game is. There's no puzzles, or quests; just a bunch of battles, then a cutscene, then some more battles, then another cutscene, and so on for about nine hours so far.
Of the six main characters - at least, I think the sixth is a main character - there's exactly one whom draegonhawke and I couldn't peg as a fusion of two characters from previous installments; I can't really fault them for it, considering how often I recycle character personalities; and they all seem to work fairly well. Plus, there's no one I really don't like in this game - even the kid who acts (and looks) kind of like Vaan somehow managed to avoid the annoyingness.
I think I like the story, although it's hard to tell because I'm still figuring out what's going on. And the game does continue Final Fantasy's war on free will; now, you can't even choose who your party's leader is. (Which is doubly annoying, because in the new battle system the party leader is the only character you directly control, and if the leader gets KO'd, everyone else just apparently throws up their hands and the game ends.)
So, I don't know. The first time I played FF7, I didn't start liking it until I'd gotten out of Midgar, and it didn't really feel like I'd gotten into FF9 until about two-thirds of the way through. (Of course, FF8 made progressively less sense the longer I played it.) So far, it's done enough to keep me mostly satisfied; but if something more doesn't start happening soon, I'll start to get annoyed.
It being a Final Fantasy, the graphics are amazing - even relative to other PS3 games. There's almost no telling between the FMVs and gameplay anymore.