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Final Fantasy XIII | 
| From: Square Enix
Category: Video Games
List Price: CDN$ 69.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 91001
Model: 15783001
UPC: 662248910017
EAN: 0662248910017
ASIN: B000FQ2DTA
Publication Date: March 2010
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 Truly an awful game - so saddened March 15, 2010
David Girard (Montreal)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am (was) a huge fan of the FF series. I was eagerly awaiting this one and it's one of the reasons I learned Japanese: so I never had to wait for the US release. I bought the stupidly expensive Japanese version and fast realized it was not nearly as good as my favourites: FFX and FFXII, both completely different games with different combat styles but amazing in their own way. This game just completely missed the mark in so many ways. Sure, it looks great but the combat is monotonous and offers little control. The heavy-handed writing is painful and it's just a drag to wait through. The summons are a bore. Even the shops and treasure chests are badly done. It's hard to believe they could screw up everything but somehow they did. It all just feels wrong and I didn't enjoy much of this game.
 Perfectly Flawed: Nice to Look at But Lacking in the Game Department. March 14, 2010
Kid Robot (Montreal, Canada)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
After having played Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, which I think is the best RPG to come out in the past year in terms of gameplay/story, I was a bit dismayed by what many viewers are describing as a very linear game in FFXIII with lackluster gameplay and no consequential actions whatsoever. Everything is gorgeous to look at for sure and I actually thought perhaps this would have fared better as a str8-to-blu-ray Movie Trilogy release as I kind of felt like I was "playing" to see what happens in the cut scenes.
The story itself is somewhat compelling and interesting but average at best. I wasn't exactly hanging at the edge of my seat or drawn in by a Shakespearean plot. But I will admit that it's just so damned pretty to look at.
PROS:
- Amazing visual experience/graphics are best I've seen to date.
- Interesting characters with intersecting POV/storyline
- Highly customizable character stats with "crystarium"
CONS:
- A lot of grinding
- No consequences to any actions for most of the game except dying in battle.
- Convoluted plot with too many details for me to actually care for.
- very few NPCs to interact with
- Linear aspect prevents free-roaming/exploration except in some rare locations.
RPG-CRACK-ADDICTIVENESS: 6/10 because it's so pretty and I want to watch the cutscenes, not because I feel like I have to play.
That being said if you enjoy the Final Fantasy series you will probably not want to miss this. I would add that I don't base my reviews on purely visual aesthetics - while it is certainly an important factor to any video game release, I think a good game's strengths lie in the storytelling, characters, gameplay and how those factors all work together with the graphics which can be forgiven if it's actually that much fun to play. I will personally be looking more forward to trying out Heavy Rain and Dragon Age Awakening to remedy my RPG-crack-addict-fix.
Side Note: I've been reading a lot of "officially published reviews" on IGN/Gamespot and I don't know what kind of biased-sponsor-crack they've been smoking but I'm actually surprised everyone is giving this game such a high score when there are so many other great games out there. I'm a strong believer in plot-centric games that are actually fun to play. Get your priorities right people and don't believe the hype. lol
 The thirteenth iteration of Final Fantasy doesn't disappoint. March 12, 2010
Shiren
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
The good:
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+ It's Final Fantasy
+ The combat system is fast and entertaining
+ The visuals are detailed and more than beautiful
+ Original and epic story
+ Challenging boss fights
+ Likable characters
+ More than 50 hours of gameplay
The bad:
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- More linear than other titles. No exploration. (But there are side missions and optional epic bosses)
- Some people may be annoyed by the heavy manga influence. (I don't mind personally)
- Lack of some things that made other Final Fantasy titles interesting: towns, mini-games, puzzles.
 Sub Par + March 12, 2010
Ian Smith (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The graphics are the best of any of the PS3 games i have seen so far.
Bad Parts
The Combat system is "neat" but its a bit annoying to press L1 10 times in 1 battle just to get my 1 guy to heal me (need the if statements back >.>)
The Camera tends to swing around when i don't want it to
Story is a bit dry
No Sandbox play( at least 6 hours in there is none ) ... where is my world map >.>
The Games not bad but its not up to "Final Fantasy Standards".
Overall .. get it, its not bad for a PS3 game.
meh...squenix slowly killing the franchise March 11, 2010
kyle (Canada)
9 out of 18 found this review helpful
Edit:Added more detail 3/12/2010
i gave this game a 2.5 stars. ff13 is not a traditional jrpg. its more of an action rpg. very different from the roots of past final fantasies. too streamlined and mainstreamed, in squenix's attempt to get more players. game will work for newcomers and some rabid ff fanboys, but it will split the opinion of fans and maybe more of the older fans that have played most of the games/played the earlier ones.
Pros:
very nice graphics
average voice acting
trying a new battle system
Cons:
the first couple of hours is VERY linear. the maps are just basically long tubes where u go from the bottom to top. u fight easy mobs in ur way (just spamming x) then a cutscene. walk/fight a few more minutes, then another cutscene. rinse and repeat.
boring plot
boring/annoying characters
no towns. no more exploring or talking to people around town. hardly any interacting with any npcs...
u basically buy items from an online shop in save points. walk/fight 5 mins u then come upon a save point, walk/fight another 5 mins another save point...rinse and repeat
hardly any equipment customization. older ffs had every piece of armor u can buy and replace from shops like chest/leggings/boots/gloves/weapons/accessories...in ff 13 not anymore.
no more battle victory sound.
u dont rly get xp after battle encounters, u get em at the end when they weigh how u did vs the fights with mobs of the dungeon.
for the first few hours u basically just spam x for pretty much every single enemy encounter.
u can only control lightning. gone are the days of the previous ffs on how u can control the full party
people will say 'the game gets less linear after 10-11 hours' or that 'the game gets good after 25 hours'!
are you kidding me? if this was any other game and not a part of the final fantasy series, people would have stopped playing after the boredom u get from this game from the first 3-5 hours...
tell a normal gamer to stick through 10 to maybe 25 hours of a boring game, and lets c if they will do it.
previous final fantasies did not have to be played through 10 hours of boredom before the game got good...unlike ff 13.
got this game today and been playing for a couple of hours now...and unfortunately, ive lost interest in playing this game. only 2 final fantasy games that lost my interest before, and they were ff x-2 and ff 12.
im a huge final fantasy fan, played 1-12... the series has sadly been going downhill since X.
to potential buyers who want to try out jrpgs, final fantasy 13 is not ur traditional jrpg, so dont look down on jrpgs because of ff13. theres a lot of good ones out there, persona series, even try the older ffs, like ff 4-9. for ff13 they took too many things out to try to mainstream and streamline this game.
game is too linear, no towns, shop is in the save points, characters arent rly that interesting, plot boring, little equipment choice and customization, u can only control lightning. game feels lifeless.
on the good side, the game's graphics is very good, hardly any loading times, good voice acting, u get used to the battle system (at least squenix was trying something new)...
before ff13 came out here in north america, i was checking amazon japan for ff 13 reviews, it was getting horrible scores there, and i was hoping they were wrong about ff 13. sadly they were right, this game is not that good. i just bought mass effect 2 last week, and am putting ff 13 down to replay mass effect 2 again.
i just hope squenix learns there lesson and go back to the old roots of what made ff games great.
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