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My least favorite. Yeah...
"Worst birthday ever."
I'm sorry but that one line was all I needed to hear to directly turn me off.
Delivery is a combination of inflection and facial expression/body language.
Lightning (ugh...that name) is expressionless in her face, and is sitting with her arms folded and her legs crossed. If the actress had delivered this with some heat, some hiss, maaaaaybe it would have come off. As it is, she just keeps hitting the same emotional note she's been hitting since the beginning of the game.
Do you know what device hits the same note over and over again? People call it an alarm clock. Picture the sound of your alarm clock in your head.
Things that hit the same note over and over again sound irritating to the human ear. This is the mark of either a bad actor/actress or bad direction. I hear this a lot in TV crime dramas, from guest characters, usually. For a lead to do it is really, REALLY bad news.
I will never be able to play this game for this reason.
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I feel like I can't judge FFII fairly because I wasn't really there to experience it but I think its safe to say that the leveling/battle system was pants on head ass backwards.
I felt FFXII was mediocre, but XIII was the first Final Fantasy I truly disliked. Straight as an arrow level design, a plot you need a smurfing in-game glossary to follow and doesn't even make sense when you understand it, a battle system that means getting your characters to do anything specific is like directing five year olds to paint a perfect recreation of the Mona Lisa with Crayola markers, and a weapon upgrading system so needlessly convoluted i'd need a spreadsheet to follow it. XIII blows.
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Final Fantasy XIII and I am in no way, shape or form surprised that it's in the lead here. The rest are either games I like, have never played or haven't played enough of to form a concrete opinion on them.
