I guess I'll be the "party pooper".

Well first off, Famitsu gave the original XIII a glowing review and a 39/40. Also, Famitus hasn't been the same pinnacle of critique they were in the old days. I mean of the 18 perfect scores they've given, 14 of them have been in the last six years, and hell one of the games is Nintendogs, If this was a decade ago, this would have been impressive. Now if this game gets a glowing review from Edge magazine who pretty much hate Squenix and gave FFXIII a well deserved 5/10, then we've got something going on here.

On a more serious note, I'm not surprised this game is getting good reviews, since they actually added real gameplay into it. I actually bet the game is going to play much better than the original, so I'm expecting near perfect scores from most gaming journalist. Course most of the FF titles get glowing reviews and high scores...