FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Overall this is a great game with great story, great graphics and great strategy turned based game, there is nothing like ff13, no strategy game play the same as it. However the lack of mobility in combat of ff13 frustrates me more than anything, once bomb(monster name) come swarming you, it will be instant dead as the only way to move your character is by attacking the enemies, that way once you are distant away, you can switch to sentinel mode to provoke the enemies and prevent from team wipe. However, it became useless if the first thing the enemies does are swarming you with 3-4 bombs, if that happened, you can only wait for inevitably dead. Have to spend resources to make yourself hard to be track with item before approaching bomb(imo the strongest monsters in the game), you can't win against bomb unless you stagger them quick enough before they exploded. If you are here only for the story, generally you don't need equipment upgrade until chapter 11, I thought I can breeze through the enemies till the end however, battle is getting unfair and unfair starting chapter 11, enemies hit harder and tankier even in normal mode, forcing you to upgrade your weapons and accessories, aka forcing you to grind gil. So expect some grinding once you reached chapter 11 aka the starting point of the game where now you finally can choose your party members instead of a fixed party in previous chapters.

IT's a solid Final Fantasy game if you can get past how hard the game railroads you. The story itself is great, but the gameplay is lacking.

most people had issues with the game not running. i agree this game is poorly optimized for pc but in my exprience it was no issues at all. only issue is the fighting scene imo are too long and boring.

honestly, a good game. it gets too much flak. yes, its quite linear until closer to the end but i think the battle system is fantastic and its satisfying to upgrade characters. the weapon upgrading/crafting is a little complex so i'd recommend following a guide so you can just go down the right path for the best weapons and materials for upgrading and not waste too much time. graphics are amazing.

I really wanted to like this game, but I couldn't. Characters that don't feel like real people, and stupid confusing dialogue. The game is extremely linear except for one chapter that's so late in the game. The combat is system is not that bad, it has pros and cons but the balancing is abysmal! And that makes the combat system unbearable sometimes. The last chapter is the worst thing that've ever played in a Final Fantasy game. Recycled bosses including one phase of the last boss. Which is awfully balanced. You feel fine going to fight him and two phases are extremely easy and one is just stupidly difficult. To the game credit the world building is very cool, even though it's explained in a very confusing way. Also, you need to read the data logs to fully understand how the world works and to fully understand the story, which I must say it's pretty good on paper but it falls short because the dialogue and characters are badly written. Just give the story and world to a good writer and you'll get a pretty good sci-fi novel.

評判はうっすら聞いてはいたものの、セールで1000円以下なので買いました。 FFシリーズは4、6、7、9が特に好きです。 同じだ、という方は参考になるかもしれません。 良い点として、結構古いゲームだが高画質化でグラがとてもいい。 ゲーム再開時に簡単な回想文が出るが、これが意外と良い。 というか本編が説明不足でこれを読まないと話が分からないレベル。良いのか悪いのか…。 中身の薄さを戦闘で補おうとしたのか、とにかくザコ戦闘が無駄に時間がかかる。 さらに道中出るザコ敵は使いまわしだらけ。体感で敵総数20種類いるのか？というレベル。 とにかく戦闘がつまらない。 ストーリーも正直微妙としか言えない。 中盤あたりかな？と思ってたらラスボスが出てクリア。 攻略サイト等を使わない派なので色々と抜けはあるかもしれませんが、 正直残念なゲームでした…。

i'm in chapter 9 and as much as i have enjoyed the gameplay and the story so far the game crashes at certain parts(mostly chapter 7) got me so frustrated i was debating on not finishing the game. so until that gets fixed i cant recommend it

My oppinion buat game ini, untuk art sm grafis, masih termasuk bagus untuk game umur 17 tahun, apalagi pas cinematic cutscene beuhh keren bgt, untuk gameplay nya paradigm shift menurutku seru seru aja, tapi buat kebuka semua fiturnya itu jauh bgt di chap 10 akhir, tapi yg malesin itu kalau leader party mati game over, itu no no sih buatku. buat tingkat kesulitan ini game termasuk susah susah gampang, susah kalau bukan lawan boss, mudah pas lawan boss. buat character, spot utama buat vanille sm lightning sih, mereka kerasa development nya. overall is good but not very good.