Your Review

[Mirage]

I'm actually very glad that the QTEs don't make a big difference, because I hate the god damned concept anyway. Especially when it's PRESS X TO AVOID GAME OVER stuff. I can never understand who thought QTEs would be a good invention, and I think the world would have been better off if that person got hit by a falling piano before coming up with it.

>>> Looks like I was right about this game..

So you'll get it, is that what you mean?


Anyway, I'm going to comment on Sephex' post, because we've talked about this in chat already, and because his is the most elaborate post.

I agree with his review for the most part, but I think he's not making it clear enough how bad the story is. I think if his review were to be put on the front page as "EoFF's review", it should touch upon this part of the game. While I am the kind of person who can play a game with a terrible story but good gameplay, I realize that very many final fantasy fans put the game's story as a very important part, and FF13-2 does honestly not deliver here at all.

Furthermore, I would like to add that I think the music in this game is nothing short of fantastic. I don't really feel that any song doesn't fit to the scene it plays in (except the ending CG movie music, but of course, the ending sucks no matter what music you were to put there), and many of the tracks are very very good even if you don't look at it as game music. It has a lot of modern influences, and I think that for example the DnB and other electronic influences are very fitting to the areas they play in. This game has a very futuristic feel after all, it's only fitting that the music is modern and high-tech too.

Lastly, I don't really consider myself a graphics whore, but I must say that this game has perhaps the best looking environmental/atmospheric visual effects I have seen in any console game so far. The HDR accuracy and rendering looks very good, and there is even a sort of lite-ambient occlusion, a feature that you normally find in Directx 11 games, and both the 360 and PS3 predates DX11 by many years.