Edge gives Final Fantasy XIII a 5 [3/5]

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...out of 10.

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That FFXIII 10 from GamesRadar? That’s now been canceled out. With a five. From Edge.

Here’s a snip:
Some people don’t like numbers, but try this little sum. If you submit 25 hours of your life to a misjudged series of linear battles and cutscenes, Square Enix lets you play FFXIII, and you’ll get 25 decent hours out of it. It’s an equation that might just balance out – but for who? Well, the fanbase, certainly, will find Lightning to be the Cloud substitute they’ve been yearning for, and in the hunting side-quests the grinding fix they’re after.
For anyone less dedicated – who wouldn’t really care if a Chocobo makes an appearance or not – it’s more troubling. FFXIII is uncommonly beautiful, with a background fiction as rich as its story is poor, and at its beating heart is a battle system that stands among the genre’s finest. Its structural changes are brave, but in minimising everything that happens outside of that main narrative the baby’s been thrown out with the bathwater, leaving a potentially interesting world that you just don’t care about saving.
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Until now, scores for the Square RPG have been mostly decent in the reviews round-up last night.

Source: VG247
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5/10 sounds rather harsh when the main criticism seems to be the greater extent of minimalism.

Eh, you can't please everyone I guess. Each publication or site has their own preferences and ideas I guess. What Edge may despise may be what Gamesradar likes.

But like I said before, I've never seen a proper Final Fantasy so divisive in terms of opinions before. Metacritic will have a great time with the average reviews score.
 
I don't know what to make of it, there are some genuine points that have been made all round by both reviews and fans but 5/10...yeah...I don't like Edge anyway I've always thought they've been shit :wacky:
 
After the intitial batch of European reviews this morning, the US are starting to go live with their scores.

Get the second wave after the break.

GamesRadar gave the game a ten yesterday, but that was canceled out by Edge’s five this morning.

Full list is below:

* RPGSite – 85% (PS3), 70% (360)
* The Lost Gamer – 9
* TheSixthAxis – 8
* Eurogamer – 8
* PushSquare – 3/4
* Digital Spy – 4/5
* Videogamer – 7
* CVG – 9.2
* IGN UK – 8.3
* BritBox – 7
* X360 Achievements – 82%
* HardGame2 - 9.5
* IGN AU – 8.3
* Edge – 5
* GameReactor – 7
* OXM – 9.0
* 1UP – A-
* Gamespot – 8.5
* Game Informer – 9.25
* TeamXbox – 5/10
* Joystiq – N/A
* Gamepro – 4/5
* NowGamer – 8.5 (PS3), 8.4 (360)



Source: VG247

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I'll be honest - that review used too many smart words for my feeble mind >_<

Haha, but yeah, ouch at the score. I'm still sure I'll enjoy the game because I tend like RPGs being focused more on the story and characters despite many people finding that to be a poor point.

You know, the whole talk of linearity, it only got brought up with FFXIII. Even though FFX was like that, I can't remember anyone bashing that game about that during the time it came out. I guess it's yet again the fact that FFXIII is just the "zomg game" and everyone has expectations that are either hit or miss :hmmm:

I will say I'm not looking for a Cloud substitute in Lightning. I admit I'm already lovin' her for being hawt, kick-ass female lead, so can't say much for her character, but I'm certainly not looking at her for Cloud-withdrawals. I'm getting annoyed at the over-generalization of FFVII being what every FF fan wants in games *sighs*

Is it so inconceivable I'm excited for, you know, the actual game? :ness:
 
Fusionist said:
You know, the whole talk of linearity, it only got brought up with FFXIII. Even though FFX was like that, I can't remember anyone bashing that game about that during the time it came out. I guess it's yet again the fact that FFXIII is just the "zomg game" and everyone has expectations that are either hit or miss :hmmm:
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Not entirely true. I remember a couple of magazines and websites criticizing FFX for being too linear. The Danish gaming magazine I was reading at the time "only" gave FFX a score of 8/10 because of that (8/10 being the lowest score they'd given a FF at that point).

I do agree that FF XIII has caught more flak for it's linearity than FF X did, but FF X is nearly 10 years old though. I think it's reasonable to expect more of a franchise 10 years down the line.
 
Judging from their rather harsh critic, seems to me like it's a repeat of Crisis Core's release. Nice and shiny, short as hell - not even worth buying if you didn't play the Original game.

of course, there's nothing to go back to on FFXIII.
 
I can't remember exactly now, but some publication gave FFX a 6/10 for being a linear affair. It may have been Edge magazine - I'll need to check on it. If it was, it's no surprise they'd tear apart FFXIII for the same reason.
 
To be quite honest, I don't really care about the reviews - Edge seems to like a different genre of games and I've never had a different person opinion as mine, if they didn't like it, I don't care, I'll try the game and see for myself maybe I'll find it to be quite an epic game. :ness:
 
I can't help but notice that the 360 version gets a lower score than the ps3, is this because ps3 is getting more extras or what?
 
Lol I'm assuming alot of Xbox sites and magazines (TeamXbox) gave it a bad rating because AS YOU ALL KNOW most Xbox fanboys are addicted to Halo and First person shooters... So they probably don't have the patience for a slower storyline and emotional cutscenes >.>
 
Alas, FreakshowGamer is right, Xbox 360 really isn't the console for JRPGs.

But critisism has been very mixed, it seems that the only way to find whether or not you'll like FFXIII will be to play it, Ratings don't look like they're acting as a reliable source this time around.
 
Edge magazine are well known for there genre bias, being that they always heavily favor FPS'es and will always give them a great score no matter how bad, so I didnt expect very much from there review of FFXIII coming from them.

Edge magazine have never exactly been a market leader in sales either, and this is very evident in there nit-picky review, People WANT there games to have more than 3 hours gameplay which is the most you can expect from most FPS'es that Edge give there high ratings to, it just shows they have no touch with the gaming community whatsoever.

Now if PSM or 10 Ton Hammer gave it a bad review, I may actually show concern, but Edge are just a bunch of self serving, FPS loving...well you get the picture.
 
It's kind of funny how when the game gets a good review, no one says anything. (Except for me.) However, once the game gets a bad review, you get people defending it out of the woodwork, and people calling the website/magazine in question "bias" and start attacking it on all levels. It's kind of funny. :rofl:
 
Darth Revan said:
Now if PSM or 10 Ton Hammer gave it a bad review, I may actually show concern, but Edge are just a bunch of self serving, FPS loving...well you get the picture.
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I don't know about 10 Ton Hammer (awesome name), but I know that PSM3 - if that's the publication you're on about - gave FFXIII a very average score of 70%.

IF there are some biased attitudes against FFXIII and JRPGs in general from pro-Xbox 360 reviewers, I can see that as being a bit of an inevitability. Like Sonny said, the Xbox 360 is stereotypically home to FPS, racing and general action adventure genres - not to JRPGs.

Previous JRPGs have hardly made much of an impression on Microsoft's console because they are considered mediocre e.g. Infinite Undiscovery. It's likely that many of the reviewers are just disillusioned with the JRPGs of today in comparison to their highly praised western counterparts.
 
Tsukianei said:
It's kind of funny how when the game gets a good review, no one says anything. (Except for me.) However, once the game gets a bad review, you get people defending it out of the woodwork, and people calling the website/magazine in question "bias" and start attacking it on all levels. It's kind of funny. :rofl:
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That's to be expected. You wouldn't want your favorite game to be rated low, I'm willing to bet. A game's rating is a partial determinant of it's success, as many people rely on them for gauging which games they should buy.

I don't have much experience with reading reviews from Edge, but from all the other reviews I read this morning the average comes out fairly well, so no complaints on my part. Being an armored core fan, I'm used to games I like being rated average or lower.
 
Tsukianei said:
It's kind of funny how when the game gets a good review, no one says anything. (Except for me.) However, once the game gets a bad review, you get people defending it out of the woodwork, and people calling the website/magazine in question "bias" and start attacking it on all levels. It's kind of funny. :rofl:
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Well when it comes to Edge Magazine, they are actually very well known for being Bias in there reviews, they gave KOTOR a really bad review despite it winning multiple game of the year awards claiming it was "A grindy snorefest"

They also think Halo and Half life are the only games to ever exist and will always rate them at the highest score, including the terrible Halo RTS and the mediocre Blue Shift expansion for Half life.

There are only a few reviewers that I will actually give any trust to, normally because they are entirely independent such as 10 ton hammer, PSM and show no signs of fervent fanboi/girlism for genres like Gamespy or in this case Edge.

It's a known fact as well that Edge used to be exclusively nintendo a few years back, so this also makes me doubt there judgement as they may be harbouring ill feelings due to there being no nintendo release, but what do they expect? The Wii is not a gaming system anyway!
 
I still find it bloody hilarious that people are making excuses for a game review. It's ridiculous.

Also:

The Wii is not a gaming system anyway!
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Any credibility that you had, you've lost. The Wii is a gaming system. It's a system, that plays games. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that you have the right to dismiss it as a gaming system.
 
Tsukianei said:
I still find it bloody hilarious that people are making excuses for a game review. It's ridiculous.

Also:



Any credibility that you had, you've lost. The Wii is a gaming system. It's a system, that plays games. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that you have the right to dismiss it as a gaming system.
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It's not a gaming system, its a family entertainment system, or a party system, gaming systems are a little different in the respect that you can play them alone or with friends, Wii's are not very fun to play alone at all, and to me they will always be an overpriced entertainment system targetted at families and not gamers. So I'm not wrong that they are not a gaming system as they dont tend to do very well in that department at all.

If you read a Wii's box as well it also says "Family Entertainment System" So even the creators realise its not a gaming console either :wacky:
 
By claiming that the Wii isn't a console, you're practically saying that Mario and Zelda aren't games. Just because it's labeled differently, doesn't mean that it isn't a gaming system. Also, there are plenty of fun single player games for it. It isn't the systems fault that you can't have a fun time playing single player games.

EDIT: However, if you said it was a sorry excuse for a gaming console, I would agree with you. :mokken:
 
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