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FFXIII Import Review and STUFF

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Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 00:36:23
January 04 2010 00:34 GMT
#1
Without giving any spoilers and not to make it seem like I'm bragging, this game is awesome except for the only reason they CLAIM its going to take 50-60 hours is because theres a shitton of walking. When I finally got to a more 'open' part of the game not Cutscene A to Cutscene B it was incredibly time-consuming not to mention its hard to gauge if you're ready for the next boss until you get raped by it.

Then again my Japanese is really fucking terrible, I basically can only understand them doing cutscenes and can't read kanji for shit. Which is pretty much making is basically making this review already less credible, if it was barely credibly to being with.. but I digress the game is fun, the battle system though back to its standard stand in a line and trade hits system is active (probably the wrong word) that it isn't extremely boring. There was ONE boss where I just was pressing X X X for 16minutes straight, but there's always that "what the fuck is the point of this guy" boss in each game.

Summons are cool, and getting them is a bitch if you're bad like me. This was supposed to be a quick review but I haven't made a blog in awhile so I'm sure everyone was oh so worried about me. Just FYI to all my fans out there I've been playing this and Tekken 6.

I'll probably be posting more soon since I'm about to beat the game..I think....theres 13 chapters and I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter 11? I can't tell if I'm in the middle the first 5 chapters were like 10 minutes each, and then they suddenly started taking days. Its going to suck when I get the airship (still haven't gotten it yet D: oh my god indirect spoilers) because there's going to be a shitton of things I cant read. Not to mention item customization oh my fucking jibblets doing that, and still continuing to aside from the "THIS NUMBER IS BIGGER LETS USE IT" policy I haven't made much progress.

I recommend FFXIII just because its so pretty, and aside from incredibly long linear bullshit everything else is well done. EVERYTHING. As for the US release, I don't want that version because people speaking English about friendship and all that drama stuff I can't take seriously. If its in Japanese I'm okay with it, because I'm weird like that. Some of this stuff is going to be freakity weird in English, especially Hope, apparently hes being played by some kid who VA's for Disney. I like that Japan for all the little boys its just women, not actual LITTLE BOYS doing the voices. Oh yeah the baby Chocobo makes this game 10x awesomer too.

Summary
Buy FFXII if you can withstand cheesy drama, in exchange for a well done battle system and actually interesting story. They partially dodged the fail-bomb which is sappy love stories and focused more on government drama stuff like FFXII which is nice. The game is pretty amd shiny, I say buy it, because people listen to what I say.

Keep the Dream Alive twitch.tv/monokerros
keepITup
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
251 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 00:39:20
January 04 2010 00:37 GMT
#2
I wouldn't call love stories a fail-bomb considering those have been very popular among fans.

And any FF is kind of dull when you can't understand what the characters are saying.

Anyways, thanks for the non-spoiler impression, although I don't see how this game could turn out bad given Square's track record.
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
January 04 2010 00:39 GMT
#3
I'd actually be okay with the cheesy english drama if it weren't for this little minor detail...

LEONA. FUCKING. LEWIS
keepITup
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
251 Posts
January 04 2010 00:39 GMT
#4
On January 04 2010 09:39 ilovezil wrote:
I'd actually be okay with the cheesy english drama if it weren't for this little minor detail...

LEONA. FUCKING. LEWIS


Great singer IMO. Glad they are showing some love for the west.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
January 04 2010 00:46 GMT
#5
On January 04 2010 09:37 keepITup wrote:
I wouldn't call love stories a fail-bomb considering those have been very popular among fans.

And any FF is kind of dull when you can't understand what the characters are saying.

Anyways, thanks for the non-spoiler impression, although I don't see how this game could turn out bad given Square's track record.

did u play ffxii?
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
January 04 2010 00:46 GMT
#6
On January 04 2010 09:39 keepITup wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2010 09:39 ilovezil wrote:
I'd actually be okay with the cheesy english drama if it weren't for this little minor detail...

LEONA. FUCKING. LEWIS


Great singer IMO. Glad they are showing some love for the west.


Oh, I have nothing against Leona Lewis, don't get me wrong. I'm just pissed because I was hoping for a miracle and they would let Sugawara Sayuri keep her single for the US version.
keepITup
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
251 Posts
January 04 2010 00:48 GMT
#7
On January 04 2010 09:46 Etherone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2010 09:37 keepITup wrote:
I wouldn't call love stories a fail-bomb considering those have been very popular among fans.

And any FF is kind of dull when you can't understand what the characters are saying.

Anyways, thanks for the non-spoiler impression, although I don't see how this game could turn out bad given Square's track record.

did u play ffxii?


yeah, played through it twice. why?
Kurosaki
Profile Joined August 2008
United States158 Posts
January 04 2010 01:03 GMT
#8
Is there any fan service? I'm a fan and I like being serviced.
broz0rs
Profile Joined July 2008
United States2294 Posts
January 04 2010 01:20 GMT
#9
i can't wait to play this game in March and experience the power of Leona Lewis' "MY HANDS."
Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
January 04 2010 01:21 GMT
#10
On January 04 2010 09:37 keepITup wrote:


And any FF is kind of dull when you can't understand what the characters are saying.
.


I understand what theyre saying, whats boring is INBETWEEN it takes sometimes FOREVERRR its like ugghhh its a seemingly tiny airship but its got corridors that are like mordor or some random nerdy reference.

Keep the Dream Alive twitch.tv/monokerros
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
January 04 2010 01:38 GMT
#11
On January 04 2010 10:03 Kurosaki wrote:
Is there any fan service? I'm a fan and I like being serviced.


You mean that fan service.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
Saturnize
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States2473 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 01:55:16
January 04 2010 01:52 GMT
#12
I think you mean XIII at the end...

Is all the text in Japanese or English? If its in English i may consider buying the Japanese version.
"Time to put the mustard on the hotdog. -_-"
Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
January 04 2010 02:29 GMT
#13
its all in Japanese, read the post! D: The opening movie has text in english which confused me greatly.
Keep the Dream Alive twitch.tv/monokerros
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9103 Posts
January 04 2010 03:05 GMT
#14
Don't pretty much all final fantasy games have cheesy drama? Not that cheesy isn't good.
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
January 04 2010 03:18 GMT
#15
is there any coorelation to FFVII? i heard rumors that like Cloud was in it, and then theres the whole Midgar thing, so hmm.
Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 03:36:31
January 04 2010 03:34 GMT
#16
I just got my copy yesterday, got up to somewhere in chapter 6 or 7. Baby chocobo is freaking awesome. Hope annoys the hell out of me, that little brat, and he seems to be the best enhancer around, please let the afro guy step it up.

How did you actually make it through all these battles with bad Japanese? Personally, if my Japanese wasn't at least semi-decent (or be well versed in the lingo/have English translated walkthroughs), I think I would've had a much harder time. And...that's on top of me having a relatively hard time as it is. Odin was such a paaaaaaain...

Actually, how did you get the summon battles done? It would be really annoying not being able to know what to do if you can't read the Libra'd texts.

EDIT - Also, best voice acting goes to Lightning, but I love Maaya's voice.

On January 04 2010 10:52 Saturnize wrote:
I think you mean XIII at the end...

Is all the text in Japanese or English? If its in English i may consider buying the Japanese version.

Wait for international versions, 12 had one no?

On January 04 2010 12:18 Skyze wrote:
is there any coorelation to FFVII? i heard rumors that like Cloud was in it, and then theres the whole Midgar thing, so hmm.

Zilch, you heard some BS.
Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
January 04 2010 04:19 GMT
#17
Libra'd? wtf lol, I can read katakana/hiragana and an elementary level of kanji so I can catch the details at least. For the most part my japanese is barely enough that I can catch the gist of whats going on so I'm okay. Also my policy was to make sure everyones Crystarium is maxed out before I try to proceed to far through the chapter.
Keep the Dream Alive twitch.tv/monokerros
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
January 04 2010 04:26 GMT
#18
So you actually go out of your way to respawn the enemies for grinding? I pretty much avoided respawning and grinding, though I did have to abuse a smoke for a boss and look up some ideas on what to do for Odin...that fight sucked so much.

I need a better way to abbreviate "explanation you get pressing R1 after using Libra", Libra'd it is!

And I suppose if you know what to do for each summon, your Japanese can't be that horrid. :D
baubo
Profile Joined September 2008
China3370 Posts
January 04 2010 04:26 GMT
#19
For those who actually understand Japanese, who's the story and character development? Personally, the only thing bumming me about this game are the character bios, which seems very underwhelming. But the few trailers I've seen look awesome though.
Meh
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
January 04 2010 04:50 GMT
#20
On January 04 2010 13:26 baubo wrote:
For those who actually understand Japanese, who's the story and character development? Personally, the only thing bumming me about this game are the character bios, which seems very underwhelming. But the few trailers I've seen look awesome though.

I'll probably post something more detailed when I get farther along, so far, I like this less than I did 12 (for the modern FFs, I hold 7, 10 and 12 to be high up on the list and 8 & 9 low, 4 and 6 are both excellent too) but more than I did 9. The story itself probably won't be anything to write home about, and it features some of the most annoying characters I've seen in FFs with what seems thus far completely vanilla development. However, the storytelling is quite novel for a FF. That doesn't completely make up these two aspects, but certainly makes it something that you can tolerate and maybe even enjoy.
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