FFXIII: Love It or Hate It?

[Daenerys]

If you had to pick, would you say you love the game, or hate the game? Explain the reasons why you feel this strongly about the game in this thread and share your opinions.

Please try and elaborate on your posts, as short spammy posts may be deleted without warning.

Also, please try and keep spoilers to a minimum. Use spoiler quotes if absolutely necessary.

[Tryst]

Bit early for this kind of thread, is it not?
I've completed the main story of the game, and I currently really like the game - that doesn't mean after I've completed all the side quests I'll still feel the same.

[SapphireStar]

Right now Im on the fence with it. Theres stuff I like and dislike already. Im on disk 2 now with chapter 5 and Im having mixed emotions about it.

[TempierVires]

well.
the music is great, as usual,
the gameplay, do-able but has nothing on its predecessors.
it's like comparing a king to a god, both are good but the latter is better, simply because it's lacking too much of what FF boasts and character control is too rigid.

[Mikko01]

I've just hit Chapter 6, and I agree with the posts before me, some things I like and others I don't. But for me, there's more pros than cons, so overall I'm loving it at the moment.

[Fleur]

I quite like it so far - I won't go that far as to say that I love it and I certainly do not hate it. The story is good so far - it has had me anticipating constantly for the next cutscene to see what direction it heads to. I love the use of flashbacks to fill in some gaps in the story and as a break from the current area you are in.

The Crystarium system seems a little underwhelming to me because I love customising my characters' stats, but I can't really fault the battle system. It is fast and dynamic; a fresh reinvention of the conventional active-time battle systems of previous games. The occasional hard battles are thrown in with the many easier ones - that does shake things up.

It's getting good so far.

[Elhaym Van Houten]

I Love XIII. Its just a brilliant game! Im on chapter X right now so It seems im close to beating the game. Well im gonna spend some time in chapter XI doing most mark missions and all that. I want to at least have 50 hours when I complete the game. I love the battle system. Paradigms are the most awesome thing ever. I find it really tactical. I LOVE Lightning! Like ommg shes my favorite character. Also Fang omnomnomnomnom. The storyline is faboulous so far!

[eye of the divine]

I miss not being able to control the other characters it became apparent to me that this would be a good thing to keep at about chapter 8 when I got drawn into a really long fight and the character wouldn't heal me all the way and I got a game over because of it.

Again in chapter 8 I dunno if its just me but my GOD the boss fights are long and it got to the point that I wasn't even paying attention to what was going on.

However this all sorta is forgiven because the plot is good and I actually want to find out what happens next.

[Dust]

I am in chapter 11 and having alot of fun. It feels like its been forever since I played and RPG this good. Mind you considering how many pretty terrible RPGs have come out in the last years its really no wonder that in my mind I am able to overlook certain parts of the game that I would normally be turned away by due to the simple lack of great JRPGs for this generation.

My greatest hope is that this game inspires all the other companies thinking of making a JRPG to step it up a notch and at least meet this level of quality.

So far though I am leaning alot more towards the loving it. I doubt any lack of interesting side quests and mini games is going to change that for me its all about the story. This one though not the most amazing in the series is very good.

[downfall94]

Im currently in chapter 4 of the game ( kinda early I know ) but as far as Ive played im really liking the game. As every website has blatenly pointed out yes it is a bit linear but it advances the plot well and Im having a crapload of fun messing with paradigms and the crystarium. Cant waite to beat the game.