I am that rare player who -loved- Final Fantasy XIII. The Paradigm system was amazing, and I honestly felt the tension that the characters were literally on the run from a world that wants to kill them.

Every. Last. One. Of. Them.

The only problem I really had with this game was the fact that there were no real side quests beyond the 1-60 mob-kills in the Steppe, which got rather annoying really fast.