I'm only like 7 hours in, but I find it quite enjoyable. The story was the main reason I didn't like FFXIII that much so I'm really glad I at least find it interesting this time around.

Edit: And yeah, the characters are a lot less annoying. I haven't felt the urge to strangle anyone so far.
Yeah, I'm looking at you Hope/Hope's mother/Vanille.

The best part is that even if you hate the story I still think you'll enjoy the game, something that wasn't possible in FFXIII in my opinion.

SheaR619

United States2399 Posts

January 29 2012 21:12 GMT

#202

On January 30 2012 06:03 SmileTime wrote:
I'm only like 7 hours in, but I find it quite enjoyable. The story was the main reason I didn't like FFXIII that much so I'm really glad I at least find it interesting this time around.

Edit: And yeah, the characters are a lot less annoying. I haven't felt the urge to strangle anyone so far.
Yeah, I'm looking at you Hope/Hope's mother/Vanille.

The best part is that even if you hate the story I still think you'll enjoy the game, something that wasn't possible in FFXIII in my opinion.

wat?! WAT?! How can you not add Snow in the list. Snow is the most hypocritical annoying bastard there is. LETS BE HEROES!! YAHH!!!!! It felt like I was watching power rangers. God I hate him more then Hope and Vanille combined. The fact that I am going to play the 13-2 as the girl that actually fell in love with that guy make me pretty skeptical about it too.

SmileTime

21 Posts

January 29 2012 21:17 GMT

#203

Hah, I completely forgot about Snow, must have suppressed that memory. Very minor spoiler: + Show Spoiler +

I actually loved meeting Snow again in this game, he didn't annoy me at all. He's pretty badass. Heh, never thought I'd say those words

kineticSYN

United States909 Posts

January 29 2012 21:24 GMT

#204

not gonna lie, especially since lightning has/had become my favorite character in all of the final fantasy worlds..

the lack of being able to play her makes me very upset

especially when being replaced with her lackluster sister and random new guy

the story feels very weak to me too, "hey lets find lightning" and thats it, no depth or anything :S

but i love final fantasy in general and will play the shit out of it regardless so lol :D

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

January 29 2012 21:26 GMT

#205

Can't wait to get my copy on the 31st.

Also what's wrong with Charice? Isn't she supposed to be talented? I mean the lyrics are bad but that's moreso out of being poor with English (though idk who wrote it), but the singing seems fine to me.

Yiruru

Canada690 Posts

January 29 2012 21:27 GMT

#206

Can anyone confirm whether there's Japanese audio or not? =[ Or do I have to get the Asia version~?

SmileTime

21 Posts

January 29 2012 21:27 GMT

#207

"hey lets find lightning" doesn't really do it justice imo, there is certainly a lot more going on, but you'll see soon enough.

I think SquareEnix has confirmed a Lightning.as-3rd-character DLC if that makes you happy.

SmileTime

21 Posts

January 29 2012 21:31 GMT

#208

On January 30 2012 06:27 Yiruru wrote:
Can anyone confirm whether there's Japanese audio or not? =[ Or do I have to get the Asia version~?

No Japanese audio on the PS3 EU Nordic Edition I'm afraid.

SheaR619

United States2399 Posts

January 29 2012 21:40 GMT

#209

On January 30 2012 06:27 SmileTime wrote:
"hey lets find lightning" doesn't really do it justice imo, there is certainly a lot more going on, but you'll see soon enough.

I think SquareEnix has confirmed a Lightning.as-3rd-character DLC if that makes you happy.

wouldnt that like completely distort the story line? lol i mean the whole game is to find lightning but if you are playing as lightning how are you going to find lightning? lololol

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

January 29 2012 22:12 GMT

#210

On January 30 2012 06:40 SheaR619 wrote:

Show nested quote +

wouldnt that like completely distort the story line? lol i mean the whole game is to find lightning but if you are playing as lightning how are you going to find lightning? lololol

theres time travel apparently, i guess thats how they would implement it

SgtBromancer

Sweden21 Posts

January 29 2012 22:24 GMT

#211

I can't wait to get my hands on a copy

neo_sporin

United States516 Posts

January 29 2012 22:47 GMT

#212

Got the CE preordered at bestbuy (like their package the most) now all I have to do is make sure my gf picks it up on her lunch break. Thursday/Friday I am off of work so I'll be playing a lot of it then.

asLeep

United States293 Posts

January 31 2012 21:59 GMT

#213

Just got my CE that I preordered off Amazon, all of the stuff is together (artbook is part of the case, soundtrack slots are on one side while the game is on the other), looking forward to playing it for a few hours today.
Edit - played it a bit, have to say compared to XIII, a lot of the new stuff that they added (cinematic action, live trigger stuff, new battle engagement) is pretty awesome, and a few hours in and I'm enjoying it a lot more than the first, story might be a bit wacky so far for people that didn't play 13, but gameplay makes up for it

Vaelone

Finland4400 Posts

January 31 2012 22:18 GMT

#214

On January 30 2012 06:24 kineticSYN wrote:
not gonna lie, especially since lightning has/had become my favorite character in all of the final fantasy worlds..

the lack of being able to play her makes me very upset

especially when being replaced with her lackluster sister and random new guy

the story feels very weak to me too, "hey lets find lightning" and thats it, no depth or anything :S

but i love final fantasy in general and will play the shit out of it regardless so lol :D

She was the one somewhat good thing in FF13 and her smaller role made me lean from maybe buying this game to not buying it. And having played Trails in the Sky recently I remembered what I want from my Japanese RPG's and FF13-2 isn't that.

Not going to badmouth the game without giving it a chance though, hope everyone that bought it enjoy it and I'l probably try to import asian version one day if people don't think it's a completely lost cause but still lacking faith towards it atm.

Thermia

United States866 Posts

January 31 2012 22:23 GMT

#215

Just started, soundtrack is pretty sweet so far, though I'm a little lost as to what's going on, hopefully more will be expounded on.

mastergriggy

United States1312 Posts

January 31 2012 22:28 GMT

#216

Played about an hour and a half; it fixes a lot of the issues the first one had as well as being very pretty still. I think I'm gonna like this one way more than the first.

Also, I can't believe how desperate square is to get non-rpgers to play this game. There is an easy mode, a battle retry mode, mog clock let's you start with the enemy at staggered every single battle, etc. They really gave an opportunity to make this ridiculously casual of a game.

Endymion

United States3701 Posts

January 31 2012 22:31 GMT

#217

I'll wait for it to be bargain bin, i stopped supporting square enix after the monstrosity that was ffxiv and star ocean 4's voice acting...

neo_sporin

United States516 Posts

January 31 2012 22:58 GMT

#218

soooo i just got my CE and the novella from bestbuy is definitely upsidedown and backwards from the cover....anyone else's like that?

Proof.

535 Posts

January 31 2012 23:05 GMT

#219

I pre-ordered this a month ago..estimated delivery date "Monday February 6, 2012 - Tuesday February 21, 2012"

Childplay

Canada263 Posts

January 31 2012 23:57 GMT

#220

does anyone know how TB got his copy so early? he was playing on his stream earlier today

edit: nvm, it game out today.

Anyone know how he got it to run on his pc tho? xD