EDGE mag FFXIII review

Some people don’t like numbers, but try this little sum. If you submit 25 hours of your life to a misjudged series of linear battles and cutscenes, Square Enix lets you play FFXIII, and you’ll get 25 decent hours out of it. It’s an equation that might just balance out – but for who? Well, the fanbase, certainly, will find Lightning to be the Cloud substitute they’ve been yearning for, and in the hunting side-quests the grinding fix they’re after. For anyone less dedicated – who wouldn’t really care if a Chocobo makes an appearance or not – it’s more troubling. FFXIII is uncommonly beautiful, with a background fiction as rich as its story is poor, and at its beating heart is a battle system that stands among the genre’s finest. Its structural changes are brave, but in minimising everything that happens outside of that main narrative the baby’s been thrown out with the bathwater, leaving a potentially interesting world that you just don’t care about saving.

FFXIII takes brave risks with the series’ foundations, but they ultimately create trembling fractures throughout the entire edifice, that robust battle system unable to support the weight of an entire world. Final Fantasy games are always an investment. This time, the returns are questionable.

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aspro said:

I modded the G4 down to reflect the new reality. They were not down due to traffic, it was a site re-design.

I modded it out of existence.  

The news story was baseless speculation that turned out to be false. It has no reason to exist.

Yodariquo said:

To the poster of EDGE's Final Fantasy XIII!!!!!!!!!! one exclamation was sufficient!!!!  That is all!!!!

gamingeek said:

Yodariquo said:

To the poster of EDGE's Final Fantasy XIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one exclamation was sufficient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Archangel3371 said:

 Oh Edge how humourous a review site you can be!!!!!! 

A 5 out of 10 for FFXIII?!!!!!!

Really?!!!!!!!!!

Now I haven't played the game yet obviously!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT!!!!!!!!

I find it really hard to take their reviews seriously sometimes especially in light of other places where I frequent whose reviews I find are much more even-handed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 A 5 from EDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is a 7 from most other places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gamingeek said:

Archangel3371 said:

Oh Edge how humourous a review site you can be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A 5 out of 10 for FFXIII?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I haven't played the game yet obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find it really hard to take their reviews seriously sometimes especially in light of other places where I frequent whose reviews I find are much more even-handed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A 5 from EDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is a 7 from most other places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You do know Sheldon Yoda can ban even YOU???!!!?!?!!!!!!!!

RIGHT????????!!?!??!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Archangel3371 said:

Woah. Itagaki's new game won't be on the Wii? I'm shocked, speechless even.

 And yet NO exclamation marks?

Check this out. I reply to Grammaton who replied to me while I was in my undercover username of Hells Wrath...lmao. And I call myself out while agreeing with Grammaton.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27210757&msg_id=320321837#320321837

Ah gamespot...

"You guys aren't getting it.


I dont care if a black dude is in Final Fantasy 13.


I just want to know why the hell he has a damn baby chocobo nesting in his afro. There better be a damn good explanation why he has a baby chocobo in his afro"