PS3 Era - Final Fantasy XIII, was it really a surprise? Of course not,
I even recorded a crappy parody song to describe my dislike of this game. While there are certainly other games with worse writing and gameplay within the genre for this era, none of them had the financial backing to make them feel quite as insulting as XIII. Shameless pandering to FF nostalgia, brain dead dungeon design that looks pretty but lacks any substance to make it memorable, characters oozing with so much angst you could figuratively squeeze a Mexican Daytime Soap Opera out of them, a story that goes out of its way to strip away any meaningful themes the premise could have had, emotionally manipulative writing with zero substance, a mostly unlikable main cast with schizophrenic priorities, bad pacing in both story and game play, a mostly non-existent supporting cast, a cartoonish main villain, a literal deus ex machina ending that completely breaks the moral and theme of the story and would take two games later to actually make right, a gimmicky battle system that didn't work when Xenosaga Ep. 2 did it and they still found a way to strip away more tactical choices from the player, and the fact the main director threw a childish fit and blamed the fans for not liking it, despite all of its flaws that everyone else on the development team has the balls to be up front about, is the
coup de grāce against this title. No AAA title has ever insulted my sensibilities as a writer or as an amateur game designer as much as this game has. It is to Final Fantasy what
A.I. is to Steven Spielberg's directing career, a poorly conceived and manipulatively written affair that goes nowhere and ultimately does nothing but waste the audiences time.
Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
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