Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - EoFF's Review!

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I think I agree with most what was here, so I probably won't write my own review Some thoughts I've had so far:

-The locations are all pretty and interesting to look at so far, but some of the textures are kind of awful. When talking to NPCs with the camera looking at close, some of the background and foreground stuff like walls and flowers can look like ugly pixelated messes. These moments are kind of jarring, but everything is still pretty to look at as you are running around the different locales. Unrelated, but the random NPCs just walking around town tend to just walk into the middle of my conversations and then just stand there between Lightning and who she's talking to. It amuses me.

-For a world being consumed by chaos and dying and whatnot, the world has never felt more alive than it does in this game. I mean this as a compliment. It actually feels kind of like a living world rather than what we got in XIII.

-I mentioned this in another thread, but you have radio conversations with another character as you are going around doing your sidequests. These conversations are often lengthy, and I find myself not getting to hear the end of them pretty frequently because these conversations are triggered so frequently. The only way to really be sure you hear the whole conversation is to just stand there and listen, which eats up your time (or chronostasis). This was handled pretty poorly I felt.

-I keep reading online about this game having terrible voice acting outside of the main characters, but everyone sounds okay to me. Definitely not the worst I've heard.

- This game is a lot of fun to play. So far I enjoy the story for what it is too, but it's definitely not a masterpiece of storytelling.

- I've also found myself really intrigued by the mythology now that I've read some of the datalogs and such. It's not handled the best in the game, but it is fairly interesting to think about.