LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII

9.5/10

Lightning dress-up simulator... But seriously a good send-off for the FF13 trilogy imo. Is it a bit sloppy? Sure. Did it need to be a trilogy? Not really. But I absolutely adore these melodramatic characters, and seeing the end of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of events that led up to this title was satisfying, to say the least. Soundtrack: Not as good as the previous games, but still had some bangers here and there, including the throwback tracks to the previous games. Story: I'm not the best at analysing stories, but I followed along decently well, and by the end, a lot of it made somewhat sense. Like I said, the conclusion was satisfying enough. Gameplay: The gameplay was... interesting. You're mainly running around completing quests whilst on a time limit before the "end of days" (think Majora's Mask). I didn't fully explore all the side quests, I just opted for a handful of the easy ones that I could do whilst completing the main quests to progress to the end of the story. Honestly, you can get by just completing the Chocolina wishes, you just run around eliminating monsters and exchanging their drops for XP. Which made me a bit sad, a part of me loves the mind numbing grinding of killing monsters to level up, but they tried something different and it's commendable. Overall, a lot of running around and exploring, so if that's your jam, you'll get along with that. Mechanics: Honestly, I approach these games like a Neanderthal, so I just went for whatever had the highest stats and had a large range of different attacks for different monsters (they have certain vulnerabilities and resistances). There's a parry system too which is pretty neat, but I didn't really engage with it too much, I found it easy to just mash attacks to victory. I much prefer the previous two games' battle systems, but this one is still fun in a different way. Overall: A good send-off for these characters and world, and a decently fun experience. Performance is poor, but hey! It's an old PS3 game, what do you expect? If you're already at the point of getting this game after playing the last two, then go for it. It's not terrible, but not the GOAT either. Would recommend (despite how scathing this review is).

Ostatnia część z trylogii XIII na pewno wyróżnia się na tle innych po pierwsze nie trzeba się bawić z fanowskimi patchami by gra w ogóle działała ale też sam gameplay jest zupełnie inny od dwóch poprzednich części, nie posiadasz własnego teamu postaci który możesz zmieniać jedyną grywalną postacią przez całą grę jest Lightning, ogólny system walki też został zmieniony zamiast jednego paska akcji który daje możliwość wykonania akcji teraz są trzy osobne na każdy strój który ma Lightning, zamiast drzewka umiejętności które można levelować jest dawanie Lightning różnych ciuchów, tarcz, mieczy, umiejętności oraz robienie misji pobocznych sprawia, że Lightning jest silniejsza, jeszcze w tej grze trzeba zwracać uwagę na czas który cały czas leci (chociaż można go zatrzymać na moment za pomocą jednej z umiejętności w grze) który odlicza do końca świata, najważniejsze jest zrobienie wszystkich głównych misji zanim skończy się dzień 8 by móc wydłużyć czas świata do dnia 13 a jeśli zrobi się wystarczająco misji czas wydłuży się do dnia 14, nie bawiłam się, źle podczas tej gry chociaż moim zdaniem jest na trochę niższym poziomie niż poprzednie dwie ale dalej warto dać jej szanse jeśli polubiło się FF XIII

Es literalmente infumable, son muchas las cosas que están mal en este juego, pero la principal es su sistema de combate y su progresión. Aquí careces de niveles, da igual lo que luches, porque no vas a ser más fuerte nunca. El combate es una fumada histórica, lo peor que he visto en mi vida, no es ni estratégico, ni táctico, ni de acción... es una abominación, un intento de realizar algo novedoso intentando abarcar mucho, pero sin llegar a nada. Sinceramente no me extraña que este juego fracasara en su día porque está muy lejos de lo que desea el fandom de Final Fantasy, que por contra es algo bastante sencillo de hacer. El combate de las anteriores entregas era malo, pero infinitamente mejor que este sistema, que obviamente no han vuelto a introducir en ningún otro juego de la franquicia. Si queréis haceros un favor, pasaros el juego en fácil y full rushear la historia, no merece más que eso... o mejor veros en Youtube las cinemáticas y os ahorráis el dinero y el tiempo.

This is easily one of the worst games and biggest letdowns I have ever had the misfortune of playing. After all the improvements they made in 13-2, here they just threw them all away. Biggest possible gripes are as follows: A constant timer like in Dead Rising IN A FINAL FANTASY GAME, y'know? The type of game you usually wanna take your time in and enjoy exploring the world? Nah, who needs that? Just straight-up run everywhere and rush through side quests so you won't miss anything. Whoever was in charge of that decision must have been on something. YOU CANNOT EVEN PROGRESS THE MAIN STORY PROPERLY BECAUSE THERE WILL BE TIMES WHERE YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT OR GO TO AN INN. No leveling system. Instead, you gain stat increases by doing side quests, which sucks for people who just wanna do the main story. The battle system, which you spend two entire games getting used to, was thrown away completely. What's even worse is that the game before ended on a huge cliffhanger, so you are essentially forced to play this game unless you want your very last memory of the FF13 storyline to be a bad one. I despise this game so much, it's unreal, and yet I will probably be forced to beat it. F this game. 0/10

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3rd and last installment of lesbian zeus (thank god ceo finally stopped). atp idek what to say anymore everything has been said. only played for all achievements. after i played the resonance demo, every title after X shouldve been like it dont forget to check out my profile to see how a true FF fan Looks! another gay move from the gay SE boss (i dont mean homosexual, theres nothing wrong with it i mean GAY) doing gay stuff for gay bloodmoney, gayass gay gay gay gay!!!!!!!!! i hate you i will send letterbombs to your adress everyday when we see us in hell gay ceo....gay! and with XIV YOU EVEN SPREAD HIV LIKE XI SEE THAT EVEN RHYMES CANT BE A LIE!