Final Fantasy XIII review - 81% in GamesMaster


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GamesMaster has settled on an 81% review score for Final Fantasy XIII, calling the game 'a classic example of style over substance'. Ouch.

But it's not all bad. GM praises the title's 'stunning vistas' - calling it the 'sumptuous eyeball feast you'd expect from Square Enix'.

<br clear="all"> '[it's] wondrous, yes, but a tad soulless,' GM reports. 'The vast majority of locales seem sadly impersonal and static.'

It concludes: 'There's not enough raw game packed into the 35-40 hours it takes to complete the narrative.

'And that leaves us with a distressing situation - a Final Fantasy game scoring less than 90%. Dear friends, we're as shocked as you.'

What do you reckon, readers - are you still interested?

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=233012

Bring on Versus please!

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This does not surprise me at all.... A good example of how much SE have lost it over the last few years. KH3 please!

I will still pick up the game but I am not hyped for it at all.

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I've been an Final Fantasy fan for as long as I remember, playing all of the Final Fantasy's with the exception of 11 and X-2, I must admit, I was extremely disappointed with anything that bore the FF name this millennium. Or Square Enix as a whole for that matter.

I see a lot of you say, bring on this, or bring on that...but based on constant rehashes, recycling, and products not living up to their hype, don't you ever wonder if this is just what the modern-day Square Enix is?

I'm currently playing Mass Effect 2 and it's everything I've ever wanted out of a Final Fantasy game. Like, Bioware delivered on things people have been dreaming can be possible in a Final Fantasy game for a long time.

I honestly think that the supremacy of Square Enix in the RPG realm has run its course, and has been for quite some time now, but people refuse to see it because they are too blinded by their memories of FF I - IX. And for many, FF X was amazing because that might have been the first FF game they've ever played, but I just saw it as "more of the same." I really think that the innovation well of SE has definitely run dry, so while people are asking for other FF games to make up for FF XIII, I really don't see that happening.

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Not surprising at all.

The Final Fantasy fan inside me will buy it regardless of its score, but I was and am expecting a disapointment anyway.

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Not surprising at all.

The Final Fantasy fan inside me will buy it regardless of its score, but I was and am expecting a disapointment anyway.

yeah that's exactly my problem. At least i got a ps3 for versus and a psp for agito

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Reviews are crap, I imported it and am loving every second of it. its absolutely amazing in every way. Oh well not 300 million hours of annoying extras but the game, battle, story, MUSIC(omfg the music is the best in the series imo) art; all top notch. also its difficulty is much much higher than all previous FFs. it's a challenge for sure and you will die, even on non-boss fights.

:D gonna get the US version in march and play it all over again :)

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LOL I was just taking a stab at all of the internet fanboys who blame the multiplatform aspect of FFXIII for any of its flaws

Gotcha. MS has inadvertently caused the series to go down for years. :p

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Gotcha. MS has inadvertently caused the series to go down for years. :p

Yup! Exactly! Even way before MS made the first Xbox it was at fault for giving us bad FFs!

All sarcasim aside, the differences between the two are minor at best, and they're overall the same game on either system so I don't see how it matters really. You either like the gameplay change square has went with or you don't, it's pretty much that simple.

I'm still going to get it, I have it on preorder, did so same time I ordered ME2.

And all those waiting for versus, who knows when you'll see that one. And doesn't that also have a different battle system/gameplay mechanic going as well? It looks to me like both FF13 games are going more towards the "Action" RPG side of things than the old FFs everyone grew up with. The times, they be changing. I probably expect this change in large to be due to square wanting to get more sales in NA and EU, and not just the default 2-2.5million it ALWAYS gets in Japan.

Just looking at the sales numbers for older FFs to date it's clear that FFs fanbase in Japan has hit it's max, and it's not going higher. I dunno about sales in the US, but you can be damn sure they're not doing these gameplay changes just to test things out.

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And all those waiting for versus, who knows when you'll see that one. And doesn't that also have a different battle system/gameplay mechanic going as well? It looks to me like both FF13 games are going more towards the "Action" RPG side of things than the old FFs everyone grew up with. The times, they be changing. I probably expect this change in large to be due to square wanting to get more sales in NA and EU, and not just the default 2-2.5million it ALWAYS gets in Japan.

Versus 13 is being made by a different head inside of Square I keep telling you this. It's the guy that made 7, already confirmed it's being made more realistic and post-modern, most of the things people want.

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Versus 13 is being made by a different head inside of Square I keep telling you this. It's the guy that made 7, already confirmed it's being made more realistic and post-modern, most of the things people want.

Oh jeezz, Give it a rest AB, I know it's made by a different team, how does that change anything I said about it? I didn't say they'd have the same battle system and gameplay did I? NO. All I said is that it'll have more action as well, not like 7 or 8 or 9 or 1-3 which are slower turnbased RPGs of old.

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Oh jeezz, Give it a rest AB, I know it's made by a different team, how does that change anything I said about it? I didn't say they'd have the same battle system and gameplay did I? NO. All I said is that it'll have more action as well, not like 7 or 8 or 9 or 1-3 which are slower turnbased RPGs of old.

It just sounds like you constantly whine at anyone looking forward to/bringing up Versus because you can't play it... that's all.

And FTR read the FF13 complaints, hardly any are about the battle system, it's the lack of towns/npcs, low interaction and complete linearity.

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Square began to lose it after they merged with Enix.

you say that like Enix is on par with Square! They didn't merge so much as Square swallowed a nearly bankrupt company.

Btw last time I checked 81% was still an A

Oh noooeeessss FINAL FANTASY IS NOT PERFECT!!! :(

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It just sounds like you constantly whine at anyone looking forward to/bringing up Versus because you can't play it... that's all.

And FTR read the FF13 complaints, hardly any are about the battle system, it's the lack of towns/npcs, low interaction and complete linearity.

What's stopping me from playing it exactly?

The major complaints I see with ff13 is that it's very linear and not open enough. I know all of that already, I'm still going to play it and have it on order. That said, the key change to this is to add more action to the game, imo, which leads me into bringing up versus which seems to have that same action element going as well.

These changes, as I said later on in my post, are probably being done to help boost FF's attraction in the US and EU where they don't really care for slowmo JRPGs where you are mostly running around talking to NPCs or looking for specific items, or heaven forbid grinding (even I hate grinding unless I really have to).

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What's stopping me from playing it exactly?

The major complaints I see with ff13 is that it's very linear and not open enough. I know all of that already, I'm still going to play it and have it on order. That said, the key change to this is to add more action to the game, imo, which leads me into bringing up versus which seems to have that same action element going as well.

These changes, as I said later on in my post, are probably being done to help boost FF's attraction in the US and EU where they don't really care for slowmo JRPGs where you are mostly running around talking to NPCs or looking for specific items, or heaven forbid grinding (even I hate grinding unless I really have to).

You don't own a PS3 and have never sounded like you've ever wanted to buy one.

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You don't own a PS3 and have never sounded like you've ever wanted to buy one.

Maybe because they still cost 300-350euros where I live. I'm in no rush to spend that much to play 3 or 4 games, I'll get it when it's cheaper still. Also BD movies are not of interest, I stopped buying movies years ago, right after I stopped buying music CDs. It's on overall waste imo.

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