Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
Final Fantasy XIII is a better video game than FFVI.
LOL, unfortunately, this just isn't the time or place (I'm also on my phone). All I'm saying is that while it wasn't life changing, I enjoyed XIII - it was pretty to look at, fun to play, and I thoroughly enjoyed the music and character chemistry. How can I call it anything but hyperbole when you start lecturing about internal Square politics, development hell, "push to 11" mandates and Vincent/Lucretia's abusive relationship? What does any of that have to do with XIII having fun combat and vibrant locations?
Chionos, if you really think FFXIII was a steaming pile of trout, then clearly you haven't been through the NES and 16-bit era where 1 in 8 games was literally unplayable yet somehow got through QA. There are vast logical chasms between a bad game and one that didn't do anything for you personally. If you really wanna go play FFII on the NES, be my guest, bro. Just don't blame me for calling certain vocal enclaves of the fanbase silly when they exaggerate their over-generalized complaints about FFXIII.
It wasn't a life changing game, it was a good game with a lot of great things going for it but I agree with you that I want that extra level of bliss that games like FFIX gave us. I guess I just don't qualify that as an existential crisis because a) that would be overly dramatic and b) I understand the difficulties Square, and Japan for that matter, have gone through.
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