Entries you can't finish anymore because just...ugh...

[Wolf Kanno]

In my most recent memory: Crisis Core, X-2, and FFXIII

I've tried to go back to X-2 a few times, but oh my god the dialogue and story telling just drive me crazy, especially the awful battle dialogue. I still want to do a 100% playthrough of this game but I have to remind myself it took me a few years of playing it off and on to finish it the first time.

With the recent VII Hype going on, I thought it would be interesting to maybe try to do NG+ on Hard Mode for Crisis Core, and I get maybe past the intro mission before the pure bulltrout of this game came flooding back to my memory. I haven't touched it since.

With all the free time I've had, I was toying with the idea of doing a replay of FFXIII and chronicle it on the site, and I got about to the point where Hope's mom died before I shut it down cause I was honestly bored. I mean if you have no investment in the plot or characters, the early game is boring as hell from a gameplay perspective. I mean seriously, the Warmech tutorial boss is one of the most brain dead boss fights I've ever seen in the series, and your only option in battle is really just to hit auto-battle and you can still five star every fight easily. No wonder I was so disengaged when I played this back in 2009. I couldn't handle the idea of being so bored for a few more hours before the game hands me the first part of the actual battle system.