FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Final Fantasy XIII is easily one of my favorite games of all time. I know this game has always been controversial because of how linear it is, but honestly, that's one of the things I appreciate about it. The game keeps moving. You're not spending hours wandering around trying to figure out where the story is or what you're supposed to do next. It feels focused, cinematic, and constantly pushes you forward. Even all these years later, the presentation is incredible. The environments are beautiful, the soundtrack is phenomenal, the voice acting is strong, and the cutscenes still feel like you're watching a high-budget Final Fantasy movie. There are moments in this game that look better than games released years later. The story is what really keeps me invested, though. It's emotional, serious, mysterious, and constantly gives you another reason to keep going. I love games where the characters are thrown into something much bigger than themselves and you slowly start uncovering what is actually happening alongside them. XIII does that extremely well. The combat also becomes far deeper than it first appears. Once the Paradigm system really opens up, battles become fast, strategic, and extremely satisfying. You're constantly changing roles and adapting instead of just selecting "Attack" over and over again. Is it perfect? No. The beginning takes a while to give you full control of the battle system, and I understand why the linear structure isn't for everyone. But I think this game was judged way too harshly for trying something different. Final Fantasy X is still my favorite Final Fantasy because the Tidus and Yuna relationship gives it an emotional connection that is almost impossible to beat, but XIII is right behind it. Beautiful. Emotional. Cinematic. Focused. Unforgettable. I absolutely love this game.

Dude im loving this game but what is up with the random crashes and low quality cutscenes?????

Game needs auto saves it crashes too much.

Just watch the cutscenes on youtube. The gameplay is some of the most awful ♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen. How did they come to this when FFX had such an amazing combat system? Actually mind-boggling. There's 2 modes in which you play this game: 1) brainlessly spam auto-ability with some random jobs on the team and bruteforce most encounters 2) strategy 1 didn't work because the enemy has a gimmick so now you gotta retry with different jobs assigned, now you can get back to brainlessly spamming auto-ability :) Taking more than half a second to think about what you want to do in a fight (i.e. not spamming auto-ability), means you're wasting your ATB, while the mob keeps attacking you. Genuinely awful game design. The above gameplay issues are made even worse with how janky this game's menus and systems are. I wouldn't mind changing my strategies for a specific mob that kicked my ass if it wasn't such a pain to do so. Also, it took more than 3 hours to get access to basic features like multiple jobs and actual character progression where you spend points for stats/skills...????? Why? The intro is just unnecessarily drawn out thanks to wayy too many enemies and wayyyyyy too big dungeons. What for? You can't even spend points to learn stuff to make the "gameplay" a bit more interesting. It's just 3+ hours of mashing auto-ability with no payoff. It's too bad, because I really liked the story, but playing this game is a miserable experience

Didn't expect much due to the reviews but it's a really good game, I enjoyed it a lot.

thank u for keeping this on the store

One of my favourite games in the FF series. Plays great on PC or Steam Deck, but only complaint is there's no quit game option, so you have to alt-tab out to stop the game.

i like lightning but there are literally no good final fantasy games. the story is all made by writers one crack, the combat in this one is complete garbage, you don't get to customize your party for the first 20 hours it seems, hallway designs, cancerous trash enemies, absolute slop of a game and almost as bad as ff7. legit one of the worst franchises in gaming

Game music is all good!