FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Once you install the fan patch to prevent the game from crashing this is one hell of a game. I'm not sure why it's such a controversial game. The gameplay is the peak of ATB, its super fast paced and satisfying to play. The visuals are insane too, I refuse to believe this ran on a PS3 or 360. The story and characters are all really good too. 10/10 would recommend if you're on the fence.

Given that this is currently on sale, I have to STRONGLY suggest no one buy it. I for one really enjoy this game and have fond memories of it despite the criticism around it. Ignoring that, I advise anyone considering this to *NOT* buy this as it essentially won't play on most PCs. Its just buggy. Look at the discussion tab about this game and you'll see endless posts about how they can't even get the game to play. Some people have got it to work but only after dealing with hours of research and trial and error changing system settings, etc. And these people are seemingly fairly computer fluent. Now imagine a person who isn't comfortable digging into system files and you're just lost. Unless they finally fix this game to properly function, people should stay away from this. You are essentially wasting money.

It's good. Install FF13fix and 4GB address patch and DXVK and you're golden. Now about the game it's probably my favorite in terms of story/character growth. Only annoying part is having to grind for item upgrades.

[h2]Only 16% Of Players Actually Finished The Game...I'm One Of Them[/h2] More than two-thirds have yet to reach the halfway mark, but the reviews are SLAMMIN'. Gotta love it. This game is ccompletely average by JRPG stanards so it's not that it's a bad game, but for the bar set by mainline Final Fantasy games...it's mediocre. The battle system is NOT impressive by any stretch of the imagination and only fully opens up when the game is near its end. People thought FF12 "played itself". This game's combat is truly mindless until VERY far down the line. The graphics are good. The soundtrack is hit or miss. Some songs are amazing while others are throwaways (though the soundtrack is praised, by other people). It might be the worst story I've ever experienced in a FF game (apart from its sequels), and that's a problem. This is a mainline FF game...the story should be given top priority. The writing is largely convoluted trying to pass itself off as clever. It loudly shouts words and phrases at you without an explanation, as if you're supposed to know what any of it means. The entire story is anchored on these words & phrases that you don't understand, & by the time the game tells you, it just hits flat because you realize there was never any good reason not to have any of this explained at the start in the first place. It's a very average story (not bad), being told in the worst way possible. The game runs like hot doodoo unless you install community mods. I can vouche for the mods. You'll have a seamless, problem-free playthrough 99.8% of the time. For $6 on sale it was "aight" but I'm not about to complete the trilogy. Even with mods the second game is notorious for still running badly, & the 3rd game might as well be a hack & slash. Mostly positive rating from a bunch of people who couldn't even be bothered to play the game. As someone who actually finished it, I'll have the thumbs it down since there's no middleground.

The Final Fantasy that popularised the Stagger system. Final Fantasy XIII is decent and fun yet weird, many nounce this as the "Corridor" where moslty everything is linear and no side content until you reach the 10th chapter then get side quests and walking like a lot of walking, immense walking, walking levels of Death Stranding and beating enemies. Which is mainly due to a lot of building like we got two games that continue the story. Shout out to Cheat engine for having a speed hack. Funny enough you could say it's the spiritual successor to FF Type-0 because it's basically has the same concepts and entities in the story although they are not connected but they share the some concepts, which i really do recommend checking Type-0. Not to spoil anything about the story it is really decent, there's two or three if i am not mistaken stupid details like really stupid but does not affect the story over all. For a PS3/360 graphics are amazing dare i say they are phenomenal and i love the menus like it's rare to talk about a menu that looks good in a video game but i sure do love it. The combat of this 13 is basically if you couldn't control the party members in 7 and they acted on their own. It does sound negative yeah, but not really. the ATB gauge is your command Queue some actions take more than one segment. The party roles/J*bs differ in the beginning but ultimately everyone can have all the Roles, the thing is unlike the past games where you can use the abilities once you aquire them here you have to switch to the dedicated role for the ability that signed to it. The only negative thing about it is when you switch sometimes the camera will switch to each party member showing the switch animation instead of all of them switching at the same moment, it takes time and you hate it the most when you immediately stagger an enemy then switch to beat it ASAP. So yeah Final Fantasy XIII is decent and fun, it has mixed opinions some hate it some like it and i like it. 8 out of 10. A Note : I might actually edit my review and include all of the Trilogy in this one review because why not? And i might not. Who knows.

FFXIII has a big stigma, "Its too Linear", "The story is confusing", coming from players who only played the first 2 hours. Granted the game is linear, but there are other Final Fantasys' that are even more so. The cast of characters, Visuals and Godly Musical composition of this game has encaptured me for YEARS.( More time spent on the Ps3 version[2500Hours]). It is easy to get captured by hate, when those same players say Mediocre games are otherwordly. If you have free time and seperate Final Fantasy XIII from its bad rap, you might seriously end up enjoying the game and what it has to offer :P

PC port sucked. Get an xbox if you wanna play this game. The story is good, the gameplay is not the greatest but if the PC port was remotely moderatable, I would have enjoyed grinding and doing side content but I wanted this game out of the way.

Why do all the final fantasy games suck after final fantasy x came out.

4/10 Runs well on Legion Go with Community Fixes I've had this in my collection for years, never could get into it. I came back to it after Expedition 33 changed my mind on turn-based combat. I thought, okay, maybe this one is good too. This game is BORING. Walk through a hallway. Fight a super-simple turn-based battle. Click through the Battle Result screen. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. I've seen mobile games with more interesting and interactive turn-based combat. Higher difficulty doesn't make the combat more interesting, just makes enemies more of a health sponge, so the same basic battle takes longer. The story is dense and the characters are all kinda just okay. I'm usually alright with a dense narrative if the payoff is good, but there aren't really any hooks that make me want to find out what happens. The characters might become more interesting over the next 30 hours it takes to finish the main story, but nearly 5 hours in, and they are mostly the same as when I met them. Lightning is cranky. Sazh has a good heart but is goofy. Hope is despairing. Etc. They're pretty 1-Dimensional. If you didn't grow up playing Final Fantasy or love turn-based combat, then I wouldn't touch this one. You won't find much to enjoy.

Ummm yeah im thinking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kino. fight me idgaf. MUH HALLWAY SIM. After playing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that was XII im glad i got something easy like this. Also X and X-2 are just as bad of hallway sims as this yet they are considered good by people(well just X heh) but honestly i ignored this game for so long due to the hate but ♥♥♥♥ you all its actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!