GOOD GAME GET! FINAL FANTASY XIII

To be frank - I haven’t beat Final Fantasy XIII yet, but I’ve played enough to recommend it for one reason alone.

Final Fantasy XIII is simple.



Yes it’s incredibly linear, yes the battle system is based on switching character classes more than actually fighting, yep you shop at the save point, yes you don’t have any NPCs to really talk to, and yes the characters mean nothing to me.

Yet I find the game aesthetically beautiful in it’s design, and it’s flow. It has the perfect pacing and is somehow engrossing despite it’s inability to appropriately tell a story with made-up words I could care less about.

It’s magic is found in it’s design - it really feels like an on-rails RPG and I’m finding out more and more that I really don’t care about exploration, hidden things, side-quests, and whatever. It’s a path > battle > cut scene > path > battle > battle > path > save point > cut scene > battle formula but it’s just enough for me.

All the negative stuff you’ve heard about Final Fantasy XIII is what makes it such a great game to me.

Final Fantasy XIII is the minimalist’s Final Fantasy, and how perfect that is.

- Kyle