FFXIII May Suck..

[DLFlux]

If this is to be believed:

The whole game is completely linear until halfway through [approximately 20 hours].

There are hardly any towns.

The party is always fixed. The whole game just repeats the movie-battle sequence over and over [In fact the progression is closer to movie-run-battle-run-movie-boss-movie-run-battle…].

There are rather a lot of movies.

Moving around is like a long marathon.

The whole game system is just a clone of FF10.

You can’t flee battles [You can’t avoid most battles either as there is no sneaking past enemies, including weak ones].

Your party is completely healed after each battle.

If the main character in your party dies it is game over [There are only ever 3 characters in battle, often less, and often fixed].

The best tactic is almost always endlessly attacking. There is next to no strategy or skill involved.

The summons’ transformation scenes are a joke [i.e. Odin turning into a horse].

The story is rubbish… [Spoilers omitted, but complaints centre on Snow’s constant and cringe inducing insistence that he is a hero and will “protect” whatever it is the antagonists are menacing this time]

Shopping is only done at “online” shops on save points, with no proper shops to be found.

However, this doesn’t matter as you hardly ever get any money [and you can never buy anything more powerful than what you already looted].

There have been next to no changes from the demo.

The status screen displays no real information.

There are only 8 items usable in combat [For that matter, there are hardly any weapons or accessories, and the “crafting” system mostly consists of spending drops to upgrade their 2 stats].

There are no levels.

Something I saw on another forum, which supplied no source, so don't know where it's come from.

Some parts sound like BS to me, but in any case, if all this IS true, then this game is really going to suck ass.

 

[Linnaete]

Asabella already posted this in the news section.

It's apparently from 2ch, who in my opinion are killjoys who hate everything even the amount of movies and cutscenes in the game

 

[DLFlux]

Ah apologies. Hardly ever check the news section.

 

[Apparent Amarant]

That sucks there are hardly any towns. That's one of the parts of the games I like the most for some reason. I really hope there is more then a couple towns with just 3 or 4 streets.

The no real shops thing bugs me a lot too. If you are going to do online shopping you should have to go to a post office to pick it up or your house or something at least. It's sounding a lot more like a God of War type game to me then a FF.

 

[Lebreau]

-closed since this is already in the News section, here-