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$10? Wow I'd be surpised if that happens. Anytime soon at least.

I only have mild interest in Lightning Returns for some reason. Yet, as a fan stricken with Final Fantasy disease, I'm doomed to forever purchase any game that comes out for the rest time. It's quite sad.

It's definitely not for everyone. It'll probably take me a while to get through this, for the simple fact that I have no ambition this time around.

I agree. XIII was alright, but XIII-2 really did it for me. Gameplay wise anyway. The story was admittedly a little janky, but it wasn't horrible. They worked with what they had, which wasn't much to begin with. XIII-2's actually one of my favorites in the series now. Go figure.

Thanks! In the end it's a solid game, it just takes a while a to get there. Which isn't exactly an excuse, but still. After all, if someone tells you "hey you should read this book, it's gets good at about page 348." Are you gonna read that book? Probably not.

I honestly do like this game so I completely see where you're coming from. But if it makes you feel better, I was originally gonna do 10 reasons to hate Final Fantasy XIII, but I couldn't think of that many.

I really don't mind the linearity. That's never been an issue for me, because an open world has never been what Final Fantasy was about. That's why I play these games. I don't actually enjoy complete freedom that some games give you. One thing I do disagree with you about though is the citing of other Final Fantasy games in order to make a case for this one. I didn't do that in this blog for a reason. Every Final Fantasy game is a standalone experience, and I look at every one of them as a standalone experience for that reason. 

I think you're right about the battle system being really good, which is why I didn't pick on it at all. If you even noticed that. I feel like people beat up on this game for mostly no reason. Like seriously, when it first came out, I don't actually remember a whole lot of backlash. But once people started voicing their hatred for it, everyone decided to jump on the bandwagon of hatred. Most reviews were generally positive. But I noticed as soon as XIII-2 came out, all the publications that originally cited XIII as a great game, completely reversed in the opening statements of their XIII-2 reviews by hurling insults at XIII. Which was in my opinion, completely unfair.

And you are right, hating on a game for the sake of hating on it is indeed a pointless endevour. But defending a game for the sake of defending it is just as pointless. Nothing to gain on either side, but you make your case because you WANT TO, not out of any ambition to change what's already happened.

Aw man that sucks. No way in hell I'm ever going to platinum this game. Wayyy too much work.

For some strange reason, I was born with the cursed inability of skipping cutscenes. No matter how bad, I feel that I must suffer through, even after already having played the game. I don't know why, skipping just feels....wrong to me. It truly is a curse.

My heart convulsed when I saw this, and then I remembered, "Oh yeah it's April Fools Day". Still, you made my heart convulse so that's something.

Alrighty. That's why I got The Last Hope in the first place. Even though it's a prequel, it's nice to be in on the fan service-y inside jokes. Now I know how non-Final Fantasy fans feel.

Hmmm. Maybe I better steer clear of that one.