smurfing Orphan's Cradle.

You see, by this point in the game, I was soured on FFXIII. I actually did like it for 60% of the game. I wasn't a huge fan but I didn't hate it either. Then all that crap on Pulse and the plot having a fatal stroke really put me off. Oh yeah, speaking of Pulse and bad locations, that big tower thing that was like a wannabe Pharos? That was fantastically boring.

But back to my point. I was feeling very down on the game by Chapter 11 or 12 or whatever it was. Then Eden Under Siege happened. I frickin' loved that part of the game. The story was rising to the climax, it had some great atmosphere, and I just had a blast running around.

Then the final dungeon hit. And it was just the most tedious, un-fun, uninteresting final dungeon I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. At least in an FF game. It was so awful that my position on XIII was brought down from "I really like this" to "I want to quit." I was in the final dungeon and I just wanted to stop because it was so unimaginably lame.