The multi-faceted nature of combat means that in Final Fantasy XIII, nearly every battle is a fresh adventure. That's not evident in the first few hours, where you're still learning new techniques and simply mashing the 'X' button allows you to slaughter most enemies that you…
Jason Venter · March 20, 2010 · 12 comments
Final Fantasy XIII stands as a new kind of JRPG that rewards varieties of intelligent play and players who think on their feet.
bbbmoney · January 1, 2013
Square-Enix would love to create masterpieces of storytelling, if only the player and the whole gameplay aspect would stop getting in the way, which is why they are taking such drastic steps to phase them out. Final Fantasy XIII isn’t a roleplaying game, and perhaps calling it a…
jerec · July 1, 2010 · 12 comments
If I were to base my opinion of Final Fantasy XIII solely on the reviews of others, I never would have played it. Like many, I’ve been a fan of the series since FF VII, played every installment, and come to appreciate certain ideas—those of which are now missing, shifted or…
Nightmare · May 11, 2010
Final Fantasy XIII is a game that would like nothing more in the world than for you to believe you enjoy playing it. Its simple list of wants does not extend as far as actually being enjoyable; it is content to pretend, to lie about a lie. It is not a bad thing for a videogame…
Fedule · May 8, 2010 · 15 comments
Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama once defended the game’s much-publicized (and much-criticized) linearity by stating that his team was going for an FPS vibe, an action-centric experience in which the entirety of the design, barring a few exceptions, moves players from…
Suskie · May 1, 2010 · 8 comments
Is it good? That's what everyone has been asking in tremulous voices when the subject of Square Enix's most expensive addition to the Final Fantasy line up comes up. Well... no. It's not. For the most part, anyway. The combat in Final Fantasy XIII is amazing. Without abandoning…
zippdementia · March 19, 2010 · 11 comments
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