how can anybody likes this game?

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And as for the notion that it gets better so many hours in: that argument's only any good when you're working with something that allows you to skip the bad parts, such as a TV series, or films.

Don't play many video games, I guess? Especially RPGs? Because the vast majority of RPGs start slow. Final Fantasy XIII's slow part is longer than most, but very few JRPGs are fun for the first few hours.

If you can't play a game with a slow start, you can't play many RPGs. (Also, the intro is nowhere near 30 hours unless you spend a ridiculous amount of time pointlessly grinding.)

Oh I do play a lot of games. (Good to see your conclusion-jumping smart-assery got unbanned, welcome back.) I've never known one to start as slowly as this gameplay-wise though. Most RPGs have a way of snagging my interest a couple of hours in, but granted they're not the main genre of games that I play. I think I'm allowed to expect a faster start roughly than one entire Earth day, though. None of the Star Ocean games took that long, heck, by the time you've played that many hours in a Star Ocean game you've likely abused most of the ability system to hell and back. And FFXII, the game right before this, let you begin to ignore the main plot and go do your own thing almost immediately.

Since you're suggesting it's right that JRPGs should get slower and slower then maybe I should leave the genre behind.

All who like FF13 are crap drinking goat smurfers. How does it feel to be a goat smurfer, rodney?!

GHOTHTBUTHERTH!