Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover View Post
smurfing Orphan's Cradle.

You see, by this point in the game, I was soured on FFXIII. I actually did like it for 60% of the game. I wasn't a huge fan but I didn't hate it either. Then all that crap on Pulse and the plot having a fatal stroke really put me off. Oh yeah, speaking of Pulse and bad locations, that big tower thing that was like a wannabe Pharos? That was fantastically boring.

But back to my point. I was feeling very down on the game by Chapter 11 or 12 or whatever it was. Then Eden Under Siege happened. I frickin' loved that part of the game. The story was rising to the climax, it had some great atmosphere, and I just had a blast running around.

Then the final dungeon hit. And it was just the most tedious, un-fun, uninteresting final dungeon I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. At least in an FF game. It was so awful that my position on XIII was brought down from "I really like this" to "I want to quit." I was in the final dungeon and I just wanted to stop because it was so unimaginably lame.
I found the Ma'habra mines (is that how you spell it?) even more annoying, because it's just dark, linear and uninteresting. The enemies in particular are just those robot things that are easy to kill for the most part. Boring. I have to agree though, the tower is just boring and confusing as well.

I didn't mind Orphan's Cradle actually, I liked the music and atmosphere. What I didn't like though was it's length as it seemed to drag on slightly, but also after the ending it was reduced to the initial area. Meaning you couldn't farm sacrifices over and over again. Now that's annoying.