Criticism of Final Fantasy XIII by fans of both Final Fantasy and the RPG genre has reached a crescendo, with critical voices now far outweighing positive appraisals, especially if typically worshipful mass media reviews are discounted:
An “E” ranking is one of the less flattering ones:
“Honestly, it’s the worst Final Fantasy game ever! Everything about the game is ‘lightweight.'”
“This is no game, it’s a CG movie player with an RPG minigame! The story and maps are unbelievably linear, there’s a little divergence in how you level the characters. I just don’t want to recognise this as an RPG. It doesn’t even feel like you’re playing a game, just that you’re being shown one CG movie after another.”
“The characters aren’t very appealing, and the cutesy antics of the female characters got on my nerves. For fans of Final Fantasy, this is really something that is no longer Final Fantasy any longer.”
“The production values are high, but like FF12 there are pluses and minuses. At the very least I don’t think this game can be recommended to everyone.”
“Final Fantasy fans will be looking forward to a good story, but personally I found nothing interesting about the story at all, though this must vary from person to person.”
“The game just repeats movies and dungeons over and over, there’s no variation at all. There are quests in the second half, but getting that far takes far too long. If you don’t enjoy the story getting that far is troubling.
Honestly, this was a big disappointment. I can’t recommend it to people who like RPGs.”
User contributed reviews everywhere are dominated by such sentiments.
A minority of very vocal critics, or a deeply flawed title getting its just deserts?
Whatever the situation with online reviews, few who have actually played the game could deny the veracity of some of these complaints…
I wish people would stop living the past.
i think the last decent square game was ffVII / ffVII and kingdom hearts 1, after the merge with square and enix, i think it went downhill from there, i think KH2 was ok, but ffXII i had to force myself through 🙁
I liked it.
The game is not totally unenjoyable but is far too linear. There are no alternate endings you cant really deviate from the storyline, there is no new game +1 that is always a good payoff to devoting hours trying to level all the way up and get everything to run through the second time. Where is the payoff for doing all the work?? starting over from scratch with nothing different to do. Poor choice, poor planning and overall a complete disappointment to fans that have waited so long. It is beautiful and interesting but I definitely give it thumbs down.
I thought it was awesome.
f♥♥k you guys stop complaining.
Oh poor you.