I never thought I’d be in love, but I was wrong (I don’t get to say that often). I remember exactly what I was doing when I realized I was in love. I was in front of my TV and about 4-5 hours in to Final Fantasy XIII. Some serious business just went down and the entire game changed. That’s when I realized I loved this game. I continued playing well into the night, and it was bliss. However, she quickly started abusing me, but I still stuck with her. After 47 hours, I finally left her, but mostly because I finished the game.
People will try and tell you that Final Fantasy XIII is too linear. While you do spend the first half of the game going from place to place, there’s a pretty good reason (i.e., they explain it in the story) why you’re going from place to place. Eventually you get to do side quests, and there’s a large number of things to kill and things to do (there’s even “end game” stuff!). People will try and say the combat is simply reduced to “press x and win”. As you progress through the game, you’ll wish that was true. They’ve up the difficulty significantly, and not by having random things you have no business trying to kill like in Final Fantasy XII. You can, and will, be killed by normal enemies. Bosses will kill you in seemingly unfair (but completely fair) ways, and there’s a limit to how much grinding can help. People will tell you the story is stupid, but I disagree. However, my biggest problem with the story are the characters. I find it hard to take Lightning McFlippySoldier seriously due to the fact that she decides to run into combat wearing the shortest skirt she could find. However, my biggest problem with the characters is that all of them aren’t Sazh. I’d be happy rolling with 3 Sazhs in my party.
Regardless, the game was great. I would have defeated it much sooner if my mom and brother didn’t decide to visit me. I took time out of my busy Final Fantasy XIII schedule to clean my apartment and do other things I wouldn’t have done if I wasn’t expecting visitors. It wasn’t so bad. I came home after work to an apartment smelling like delicious food and brownies. Who hates brownies? No one worth liking.
André//9:14 AM//No one ever leaves comments