FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Immediately shuts down without even the appearance of an attempted start... Searched for fixes, and adding several mods MAY get it running... I think I'm going back to console gaming. PC ain't it chief. "Versatility, superior," blah, blah, blah. If a couple years down the road, the game is unusable, because updates, or newer OS, what's the upside? Another game in the graveyard of Steam eff you's because of EXTREM LACK OF QUALITY CONTROL. How hard would it be to even hold a dev or game studio mildy accountable for posting a game that doesn't work properly?

It takes like 12 hours for the game to get going. It's insane to ask the player to 'bear with me' for 12 hours long before quality is revealed. However after that looooooong start it turns into a pretty good and interesting game. 12 hours of bad cutscenes, actually the worst combat ever (at the start!), and 0 exploration before you get good cutscenes, fine combat and maybe even some crumbs of exploration. It's a tall order. Luckily the music is good from the get-go and becomes even better later!

English Version (french below) Ok so I really did not like this game on my first playthrough and decided to give it another try for the platinum. It's not the best game out there, but it has actually good gameplay (even if the tutorial takes WAY too long), very nice graphics, cool music, surprisingly nice characters, the progression is pretty satisfying andthe story is not that bad once you understand the very confusing terms that are almost never explained in dialogue (which makes it really hard to understand if you don't want to ready the codex entries) Now that doesn't mean the game does not have issues. The one complaint I have about the gameplay is that summons don't do anything, they barely do any damage it is not satysfying in the slightest. But to be honest, most problems for me came when we finally got access to some sort of open world. It has a million missions with some of them being stupid hard or annoying. Now, don't get me wrong, I actually enjoyed the difficult fights a lot because they really pushed the combat system to its limits, but some of the fights were just plain annoying to deal with. And additionnally, the platinum requires so much farming it's horrendous, you really have to be prepared if you want to go through it. In summary, the game is a lot better than people give it credit for, but it's not amazing either. Oh yeah, and the fact you game over if your main character dies even if the rest of the squad is fine is completely stupid. Version Française : Déjà, j'ai personnellement très peu aimé le jeu la première fois que j'ai fini le jeu, mais je lui ai laissé une seconde chance lorsque je suis revenu dessus pour le platinum. C'est loin d'être le meilleur jeu de tous les temps, ou meme le meilleur Final Fantasy, mais le gameplay est très sympa (meme si le tuto dure beaucoup trop longtemps), de bons graphismes, des musiques sympa, des personnages finalement pas si mauvais que ça, une progression constante assez satisfaisante et une histoire plutôt ok une fois qu'on comprend tous les termes techniques qui ne sont quasiment explicité dans les dialogues (ce qui rend l'histoire très difficile a suivre si vous ne cherchez pas dans les entrées du journal) Par contre le jeu n'est clairement pas sans défaut. Le seul petit problème que j'ai avec le gameplay lui même est le manque d'utilité des invocations, qui ne font aucun dégât et qui sont tous sauf satisfaisantes à utiliser. Mais pour moi, le gros des problèmes du jeu sont arrivés au moment où on a eu accès à la zone ouverte du jeu. Il y a un nombre de missions délirant, dont certaines stupidement durs et frustrantes. Comprenons nous bien, j'adore les combats difficiles du jeu parce qu'ils poussent le système de combat dans ses limites, mais certains combats sont juste frustrants à faire. Pour le platinum, en plus de toutes ces missions à réussir parfaitement, la quantité de farm nécessaire est juste ahurissant, donc préparez-vous mentalement si vous voulez le faire. En résumé, le jeu n'est pas incroyable non plus, mais il est bien mieux que ce que les gens ont tendance à dire. Ah et le fait que le fait que la mort de votre personnage principal cause un game over, meme si le reste de l'équipe est vivante, c'est complètement stupide

if you have a new gen gpu i highly recommend you don't buy any old final fantasy game, ff12 wouldn't start and ff13 keeps crashing constantly its really disappointing honestly, that said there are ways to fix it but its complicated i recommend doing your research before wasting your money.

No os dejéis llevar por las malas críticas, este juego tiene más carisma y mejor desarrollo de personajes que el sobrevalorado Final Fantasy VII. Es como la versión cyberpunk de tono oscuro madura, mientras el VII un shonen para vender merchandasing a las masas y estirar el producto como están haciendo con la nueva triologia y DLCs.

This is simply the worst Final Fantasy game. The story is convoluted and boring. The characters are extremely tropey and uninteresting. The combat is terrible. The pacing is awful. The difficulty spikes are ridiculous. The game is extremely linear until it opens up near the end, then you're expected to back track constantly. I don't know why I even put 40+ hours into this.

requires fixes to get working "properly" but even after patches and fixes the game will still randomly crash.

LIGHTNINGGGGGGG

Still the most challenging game in the series. Doesn't take SUPER long to get working well but even then it's annoying. It'd be nice if we got a remaster/updated port with PS3/XOne CGI and fixed textures/shadows. Despite that, the game still holds up well visually. This is only the second/third worst way to experience the game, depending on how much 60fps makes or breaks it for you.

Absolutely do not waste your time or money on this garbage. Not even sure you can call this a Final Fantasy game. The story is complete nonsense with no clear sense of direction. Lightning is the main character yet somehow manages to be the most boring character in the cast. Most of the environments in this game are an eyesore and feel even worse to explore. Actually forget that last part. I almost forgot there are no places to explore in this game. There is no world map and no vehicle progression. The characters are given leveling trees that amount to being a very shallow interpretation of the job system. The combat might’ve been interesting if you were able to control more than one party member, BUT YOU CAN’T. Your other two party members are cpu automated and they suck. The gear progression is serviceable, if not incredibly slow. All of this comes together to create a very regrettable and unsatisfying experience that is also completely BROKEN. Can’t forget to mention that part. As if this game wasn’t already bad enough, this version of it is completely busted. Constant crashing that renders the game unplayable. I had to download mods just to make this game playable and for all that effort I was rewarded with this garbage. If you like Final Fantasy, don’t play this game. If you like RPGs, don’t play this game. If you like having fun, value your existence as a person, or are just a sentient being capable of thought, forget that you even clicked on this game.