they shouldnt have made the crystalium hard to fill up wen u try 2 reach lvl 4 of the paradigm lvl.if its a bit less hard to fill then it would make the game better as u venture through the game
It's a good game! Grinding is also never usually fun... So that point is eliminated. And since the battles take place in REAL TIME, manually scrolling through all your abilities would get you killed. Auto-battle is really the only thing keeping you alive.
And also, this game should be a rental? It's like 30-70 hours long so good luck with that...
You don't like these characters? Ha! You obviously haven't played the garbage that is FF 12. The game does everything for you? Again, have you played FF 12? This battle system kept me on the edge of my seat, and auto-battle made it much more bearable, and if it WEREN'T for auto-battle, I wouldn't play the game, because the game gets extremly difficult and manually choosing abilities would make it too time consuming, and would result in death. And since when has grinding EVER been fun? Ha!
@BatteryBlaster A bit late i know but some people actually enjoy turn based combat systems, so don't mind grinding. About 25% of DQ8 was grinding (for gold mainly) but it's still in my top 3 games ever. and i've gotta say i agree with the review, i didn't like a single character, and narrow unbranching corridors... where's the fun in that?
Seriously, I don't know what's happened to Square, the first 6 FFs were great, the seventh is too overrated, but still good, the eight, o my god, I've never played something more boring! The ninth was the best FF, I thought they had learned form their mistakes, then came X, XI, XII and XIII, and oh god damn it, they made VIII seem ultra fun and super true to JRPG, damn they were the biggest shits ever, and this game is the worst of them.
well kwing the leveling up weapons thingy is pretty easy it looks complected but it's easy as hell so you're complaining about nothing there and the gameplay is actually pretty cool and fun and saying this game is a rental is the worst thing not because i hate your score but because people will not find out about all the good stuff about the game because they need to pass about 20 hours of tutorial and the story is actually good to decent way better stories in the franchise but not the worst
@TheShinobiSan I've played a good few rpgs including the shadow hearts series and several other final fantasy games and this is still one of my favourite games ever so no simply playing more rpgs won't teach anybody to hate this game. If they like the game they like it. At least it was better than that overrated piece of trash known only as Final fantasy 7 (easily the worst FF ever made including FFX-2)
@VergilownsDante I actually found FF7 pretty damn good; It helped me get over the Must-avoid-Final-Fantasy-like-the-plague mentality that FF fanboys traumatized me into. Overrated? Fuck yes, but after playing it I could understand why (^_^) Since then, the series tended to make a more excellent concept with each installment, yet somehow managing to make a bigger merit-dulling mistake to go along with it. Between the two, FF13 is more refreshing, but FF7 treats you more like a gamer.
@TheShinobiSan FF7 was FAR too easy. As a gamer I expect to get a game with some challenge to it and outside of the weapons FF7 was easily the easiest FF game ever. At least FF13 is a difificult game which was one of the things that appealed to me. I also liked FF13 characters MUCH more than FF7s. Cloud was too depressing, at least Light has asoft side to her that gradually reveals herself through the game. Overall FF13 was the better game alltogether
@VergilownsDante Don't forget Sazh, a deeper character than Barret, and hence easier to relate to. Although, FF13's Cid wasn't much of a Cid. Back to point; I like challenge as much as the next gamer, but GOD DAMN!! I found FF13 more hard than challenging. Challenging is when great difficulty equals great reward. 13 has the difficulty down, but the player is gravely under-rewarded. What's the point of an RPG if you can't(eventually) mow through that tanklike a drunkard through beer ?lol
i actually love this game even though the most disappointing feature would be how you get no gil when you win battles or real free roam til you beat the game
What you're saying is all true, but I actually really enjoy this game. The only thing I'm not really fond of is the leveling system. I understand using the crystarium for skills, that's pretty similar to FF10. But I'd really prefer a traditional leveling system, because I've been playing this game for like 20 hours so far, and my characters are mostly level 3. Not a problem for the difficulty of the enemies, I only ever lose once on hard enemies, but I still feel like they should be level 20 by
I liked it better on PS3, it's a 3 disc for 360, something Sony got rid of with the PS2. And I enjoyed the native 720p and the almost no load time, the only real load time was when you just wake up and start the game. For me it is a 9/10.
a very contradictory review... you didn't enjoy it and called it a rental, but you played a 50-60 hour plus game twice? i wish i had that kind of free time. i don't even have the time to play games i love more than once.
Wow they fixed the audio its much better. Plus all of your points were very accurate, luckily I bought it for the right price 8 bucks about the price of a movie. Plus when I'm done I can sell it for a profit later this year. I hope they make 15 better as 14 is an MMO so we won't know until 2015. Hope to see more reviews in the future.
@wolffster25 just wait until (hopefully next year....they better release it next year) final fantasy versus XIII comes out that game looks to be the best 3D final fantasy game ever made it might get to be as good as FFIV and VI
@MrFinalgamer I doubt it will come out next year from what I have heard they have not even started full production on the game yet. It looks cool but I'd rather play The Last Story by Hironobu Sakaguchi of course we have to wait till NOA decides to release the game. I mean come on Nintendo what isn't marketable about this game it just screams instant success. All you have to tell people is that it was made Sakaguchi creator of Final Fantasy and with music by Nobuo Uematsu see its that simple.
@wolffster25 meh in famitsu, nomura said that they were just polishing the game and recording the voices so hopefully we'll have it next year (gotta wait until TGS to find out :D) as for the last story.....the only reason i will buy a wii
I love this game and the only reason i am not hating this review is how funny this guy is
Lanser747 2 weeks ago
Perfect review. Right on target.
crlake 2 weeks ago
horrible review
alwayswithmymaryjane 1 month ago
this guy realizes that its a 60 or so hour game right so renting it wouldnt be very smart unless you want to pay late fees
MrJohnoson 1 month ago
lol at rental... that game took me 55 hours to beat
deadhippie61 1 month ago
This is an absolutely horrible review.
TeamAPS 1 month ago
Lolz a rental i just didn't like the game because it was really easy. The only hard part was mastering everything.
zero9o9o 4 months ago
they shouldnt have made the crystalium hard to fill up wen u try 2 reach lvl 4 of the paradigm lvl.if its a bit less hard to fill then it would make the game better as u venture through the game
siv2ful 6 months ago
It's a good game! Grinding is also never usually fun... So that point is eliminated. And since the battles take place in REAL TIME, manually scrolling through all your abilities would get you killed. Auto-battle is really the only thing keeping you alive.
And also, this game should be a rental? It's like 30-70 hours long so good luck with that...
TheGumGumMan 6 months ago
4.5 of 5 in my opinion
godsil11 6 months ago
You don't like these characters? Ha! You obviously haven't played the garbage that is FF 12. The game does everything for you? Again, have you played FF 12? This battle system kept me on the edge of my seat, and auto-battle made it much more bearable, and if it WEREN'T for auto-battle, I wouldn't play the game, because the game gets extremly difficult and manually choosing abilities would make it too time consuming, and would result in death. And since when has grinding EVER been fun? Ha!
swordfish1390 7 months ago 4
GRINDING IN EVERY GAME IS A CHORE. WHAAAAAt are you talking about!?!?!? grinding is NOT fun nor has ever been!
BatteryBlaster 7 months ago
@BatteryBlaster A bit late i know but some people actually enjoy turn based combat systems, so don't mind grinding. About 25% of DQ8 was grinding (for gold mainly) but it's still in my top 3 games ever. and i've gotta say i agree with the review, i didn't like a single character, and narrow unbranching corridors... where's the fun in that?
pankrazspancreas 2 months ago
This review is such bullshit. Even IGN has a better review.
BatteryBlaster 7 months ago
This game is a big steaming pile of shiny shit.
Seriously, I don't know what's happened to Square, the first 6 FFs were great, the seventh is too overrated, but still good, the eight, o my god, I've never played something more boring! The ninth was the best FF, I thought they had learned form their mistakes, then came X, XI, XII and XIII, and oh god damn it, they made VIII seem ultra fun and super true to JRPG, damn they were the biggest shits ever, and this game is the worst of them.
kztar621 7 months ago
the most worst review i ever have seen final fantsy xiii its epic 9/10
drgci 7 months ago
Yagg Roshe was the only character i liked.
EriksB 7 months ago
well kwing the leveling up weapons thingy is pretty easy it looks complected but it's easy as hell so you're complaining about nothing there and the gameplay is actually pretty cool and fun and saying this game is a rental is the worst thing not because i hate your score but because people will not find out about all the good stuff about the game because they need to pass about 20 hours of tutorial and the story is actually good to decent way better stories in the franchise but not the worst
MrFinalgamer 7 months ago
@MrFinalgamer Yes, the story is decent, but it's a Final Fantasy game, a SQUARE game. Decent is not acceptable for such a company.
kztar621 7 months ago
that game blows final fantasy go back to when u were good plz
paradigm system boo and let control all members of my party
cuchulain334 9 months ago
This game was fantastic. People are far too cynical about every game coming out these days.
MahSpoonIs2Big 10 months ago 2
this is a great game 8.5
Mr12355732 11 months ago
Fuck you luke this is an awsome game stop hating
12lolofar 11 months ago
I love the game 9.8 *_^
PrinceOF9Imagination 11 months ago
Excellent review.
mechanicalpuffin 1 year ago
You cant rent this game unless you have a lot of left over money....
xXomeganiXx 1 year ago
how dare you :(
raven1239111 1 year ago
im not an expert gamer but to me this game had the most amazing story ever. but this is also the first rpg ive ever played. i give 9.5/10
thatsWhAtSHeSaidERIC 1 year ago
@thatsWhAtSHeSaidERIC Play some other RPGs and you'll learn to hate this one soon enough lol
TheShinobiSan 1 year ago
@TheShinobiSan I've played a good few rpgs including the shadow hearts series and several other final fantasy games and this is still one of my favourite games ever so no simply playing more rpgs won't teach anybody to hate this game. If they like the game they like it. At least it was better than that overrated piece of trash known only as Final fantasy 7 (easily the worst FF ever made including FFX-2)
VergilownsDante 1 year ago
@VergilownsDante I actually found FF7 pretty damn good; It helped me get over the Must-avoid-Final-Fantasy-like-the-plague mentality that FF fanboys traumatized me into. Overrated? Fuck yes, but after playing it I could understand why (^_^) Since then, the series tended to make a more excellent concept with each installment, yet somehow managing to make a bigger merit-dulling mistake to go along with it. Between the two, FF13 is more refreshing, but FF7 treats you more like a gamer.
TheShinobiSan 1 year ago
@TheShinobiSan FF7 was FAR too easy. As a gamer I expect to get a game with some challenge to it and outside of the weapons FF7 was easily the easiest FF game ever. At least FF13 is a difificult game which was one of the things that appealed to me. I also liked FF13 characters MUCH more than FF7s. Cloud was too depressing, at least Light has asoft side to her that gradually reveals herself through the game. Overall FF13 was the better game alltogether
VergilownsDante 1 year ago
@VergilownsDante Don't forget Sazh, a deeper character than Barret, and hence easier to relate to. Although, FF13's Cid wasn't much of a Cid. Back to point; I like challenge as much as the next gamer, but GOD DAMN!! I found FF13 more hard than challenging. Challenging is when great difficulty equals great reward. 13 has the difficulty down, but the player is gravely under-rewarded. What's the point of an RPG if you can't(eventually) mow through that tanklike a drunkard through beer ?lol
TheShinobiSan 1 year ago
this game had great gameplay and an amazing story! this game is way better than final fantasy 12! that game sucked!!
ThePossumReport 1 year ago
i actually love this game even though the most disappointing feature would be how you get no gil when you win battles or real free roam til you beat the game
akira955 1 year ago
For me it's at the very least an 8.0.
kinkex 1 year ago
I personally like this Final Fantasy more then even the holy grail of Final Fantasy, 7
TheBlueMnM 1 year ago
guys dont bother with the rating if u like the game thats all that matters.. and most reviewers are bysist odee
mikeisdead93 1 year ago
its by no means a perfect game, but if didnt have FINAL FANTASY stamped on its title, people would of enjoyed it alot more
i liked it, one of the few FF games that i didnt get bored while playing
DragonElf01 1 year ago
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"one of the few FF games that i didnt get bored while playing" Yea tell me about it.
I beat it SIX TIMES ans still playing it!
PrinceOF9Imagination 11 months ago
Luke what do the Score when you done a fight???
CyberThechSlifer 1 year ago
What you're saying is all true, but I actually really enjoy this game. The only thing I'm not really fond of is the leveling system. I understand using the crystarium for skills, that's pretty similar to FF10. But I'd really prefer a traditional leveling system, because I've been playing this game for like 20 hours so far, and my characters are mostly level 3. Not a problem for the difficulty of the enemies, I only ever lose once on hard enemies, but I still feel like they should be level 20 by
AdamKaoru 1 year ago
>w< I guess I'm counted as a hardcore FF lover haha...xD 9/10 <3
iTouchedYuu 1 year ago
6.5 its like 8 or 9.10
bufaloboj1 1 year ago
I liked it better on PS3, it's a 3 disc for 360, something Sony got rid of with the PS2. And I enjoyed the native 720p and the almost no load time, the only real load time was when you just wake up and start the game. For me it is a 9/10.
roccoownzu2 1 year ago 14
its a 10 out of 10 for me
boneyman55 1 year ago
don't judge this game as a JRPG
judge it as another game
sure it breaks a few rules but as its own genre, its really really good
uilregit 1 year ago
is not the best game ever is good game (7.5)
bigfoxxiii 1 year ago 10
@bigfoxxiii I think they focused too much on the blue ray graphics
WesternZodiacs 8 months ago
LOL WITH THE WAY HE TALKS ABOUT THE GAME IN THE TIPS VIDEOS I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT REVIEW XD
FewestReborn 1 year ago
a very contradictory review... you didn't enjoy it and called it a rental, but you played a 50-60 hour plus game twice? i wish i had that kind of free time. i don't even have the time to play games i love more than once.
Mawingu21 1 year ago
@Mawingu21 Well if he gets paid for the reviews it's basically his job to play, opening a window of opportunity to play all he wants.
watsup89er 1 year ago
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FF13 sucks
NeverKnowsBests 1 year ago
@NeverKnowsBests no
bigfoxxiii 1 year ago
@bigfoxxiii Yes
NeverKnowsBests 1 year ago 2
Excellent much better guys, audio matches the clips and it doesn't skip anymore.
kNIGHTWING01 1 year ago
@kNIGHTWING01
great job KWING!remeber supermario1288 from some years ago?that's me if you remember!what's your PSN i wouldd love to add you!God bless!
GamingBliss 1 year ago
Gave this version the 1Gb treatment to make sure that the original quality stayed intact. Thanks for being patient.
GameZoneOnline 1 year ago
Great job!! I look forward to more reviews!
dave4shmups 1 year ago
Wow they fixed the audio its much better. Plus all of your points were very accurate, luckily I bought it for the right price 8 bucks about the price of a movie. Plus when I'm done I can sell it for a profit later this year. I hope they make 15 better as 14 is an MMO so we won't know until 2015. Hope to see more reviews in the future.
wolffster25 1 year ago
@wolffster25 just wait until (hopefully next year....they better release it next year) final fantasy versus XIII comes out that game looks to be the best 3D final fantasy game ever made it might get to be as good as FFIV and VI
MrFinalgamer 7 months ago
@MrFinalgamer I doubt it will come out next year from what I have heard they have not even started full production on the game yet. It looks cool but I'd rather play The Last Story by Hironobu Sakaguchi of course we have to wait till NOA decides to release the game. I mean come on Nintendo what isn't marketable about this game it just screams instant success. All you have to tell people is that it was made Sakaguchi creator of Final Fantasy and with music by Nobuo Uematsu see its that simple.
wolffster25 7 months ago
@wolffster25 meh in famitsu, nomura said that they were just polishing the game and recording the voices so hopefully we'll have it next year (gotta wait until TGS to find out :D) as for the last story.....the only reason i will buy a wii
MrFinalgamer 7 months ago