LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII

The biggest problem with this game seems to be the awful performance on modern day Windows computers, as this game was never designed to run on bare-metal modern day Windows systems running newer drivers. Failing to run old games such as this is pretty normal in Windows world. This also seems to be the reason for many negative reviews as many don't understand this aspect. HOWEVER, it runs perfectly on Linux without any modding or patching. Same goes with all the other FF XIII games on this trilogy. It just works out of the box and runs very stable. The game is also very good and is a great improvement from the first FF XIII game in many aspects. When it comes to graphics, I just love these XBOX 360 and PS3 era visual style which Square Enix pretty much perfected in this case. While I prefer turn-based combat on Final Fantasy games, I still like the active time combat system this game has. It's a thumbs up for me.

it aight

Great game! Ran mostly perfect on Steam Machine. Make sure to save every once in while. Had a few crashes in the early story missions. Mid to late game was nice and smooth sailing all through to the end.

XIIIのファンにおすすめです。 世界滅亡13日前という設定のため、敵モンスターに現存数が存在し、倒し続けていると絶滅するというデザインが非常におしゃれです。

É meio difícil falar que algum FF é ruim, todos são uma obra prima.

鸡史

Lightning dress-up simulator... But seriously a good send-off for the FF13 trilogy imo. Is it a bit sloppy? Sure. Did it need to be a trilogy? Not really. But I absolutely adore these melodramatic characters, and seeing the end of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of events that led up to this title was satisfying, to say the least. Soundtrack: Not as good as the previous games, but still had some bangers here and there, including the throwback tracks to the previous games. Story: I'm not the best at analysing stories, but I followed along decently well, and by the end, a lot of it made somewhat sense. Like I said, the conclusion was satisfying enough. Gameplay: The gameplay was... interesting. You're mainly running around completing quests whilst on a time limit before the "end of days" (think Majora's Mask). I didn't fully explore all the side quests, I just opted for a handful of the easy ones that I could do whilst completing the main quests to progress to the end of the story. Honestly, you can get by just completing the Chocolina wishes, you just run around eliminating monsters and exchanging their drops for XP. Which made me a bit sad, a part of me loves the mind numbing grinding of killing monsters to level up, but they tried something different and it's commendable. Overall, a lot of running around and exploring, so if that's your jam, you'll get along with that. Mechanics: Honestly, I approach these games like a Neanderthal, so I just went for whatever had the highest stats and had a large range of different attacks for different monsters (they have certain vulnerabilities and resistances). There's a parry system too which is pretty neat, but I didn't really engage with it too much, I found it easy to just mash attacks to victory. I much prefer the previous two games' battle systems, but this one is still fun in a different way. Overall: A good send-off for these characters and world, and a decently fun experience. Performance is poor, but hey! It's an old PS3 game, what do you expect? If you're already at the point of getting this game after playing the last two, then go for it. It's not terrible, but not the GOAT either. Would recommend (despite how scathing this review is).