This entry into the Final Fantasy universe is set in the worlds of Pulse and Cocoon. Players take control of multiple characters who are caught in a war between these worlds.
@xyzygy: Yeh, the majority of the games story is bland and drawn out... Unrewarding - yes.. But I said that about 30 minutes into the hour long finale or so...
Hey guys! Well... I just finished the game! Yeah! after more than 3 weeks of being playing it! The ending of the game and final cut-scene is.... EPIC! AWESOME! FANTASTIC! EMOTIVE! TOTALLY UNEXPECTED! WONDERFUL! MARVELOUS! REALLY.... THE BEST FF EVER!!!!!!!!!
First, I thought all of them would end as crystals for ever, (when the song started) Then I thought Vanille and Fang, at the very end, would start breaking the crystals showing one of their hands out of the "crystal prison"... and then BOOM a black screen and that's it... but nop, It wasn't like this... so.....well..... Anyways, the ending made me cry, really, I admit it! I a boy cried paying a video-game! When Dahj and Serah appear and Snow and Sazh run to where they are.....snif snif......
REALLY ONE OF THE BEST FF GAMES SO FAR..... AND THE ENDING... AGAIN, EPIC!
I liked the ending more than I thought, one of the better endings I enjoyed in a FF, and the english song fits better than I thought.
I hated the corridor from ch12 all the way up to the end, which was like hours, almost skipped every fight I ran into, I thought it was never going to end. I enjoyed the corridor from chapter 1-10 however, and I just love reading that datalog and visualizing the beautiful towns and culture of cocoon and the history of gran pulse in my head, makes the corridors much more tolerable, every game should have a datalog.
" @Lawrens: Those fights were hard, I use a lot of sols, to be sure. "
Yea, those were probably the harder fights of the game, the bosses were a lot more straight forward compare to the multiple normal enemies with high damage and knock back moves.
@SeniorBonerpants: You should probably read a review or something before buying games in the future. I can only imagine what your reaction was after playing xtreme paintball 6.
FF13 is the first final fantasy game to have actual character development. The people in your party at the end of the game are not the same people you had in the first quarter of the game. I think this is the best final fantasy ever made.
@Teran: plenty of past FFs have had char development, squall wasn't the same person as he was in the beginning, neither was tidus, or cloud. And what char development in FFXIII? o you mean the part where everyone breaks down and basically says something to the effect of "I was wrong"? Yeah great development there.
@MethodManFTW: But there's a difference in watching a movie and watching an anime/jrpg. People honestly think the plots in the latter are any good? REALLY? That's so depressing.
Like what you want. Go ahead. I just know that anime/jrpg plots and characters are so shallow and just generally are not good. I can't understand why people would enjoy them or have any kind of emotion evoked from them. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this. I don't know.
@hai2u: There is a big difference between character development and a gigantic plot twist/hole two minutes before the last boss fight.
@pwnasaurus said:
" OH NOES THOSE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS THAT ARENT REAL WAT WILL YOU DO?!?!?!?!?!?!?1111one!!!!111!!? "
This is what happens when someone who doesn't know how to read plays video games.
Suspension of disbelief is the key here. To me video game characters are as abstract and real to me as a soldier who fought in the Civil War. I'm no more likely to sit down and have lunch with William Tecumseh Sherman than I am likely to sit down and have lunch with Lightning or Cloud Strife. Whether someone is or was real is irrelevant in this situation and given that our emotional responses aren't based on a specific person but rather the acts a specific person has done it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see how all this works.
The next time an abstract concept flies over your head and into outer space go read a book, you'll come out looking smarter.
I keep hearing everybody talk about a turning point in the game where it becomes "interesting." Does anybody have an actual distinct location to put this, like a major event in the plot?
I have played through the game myself and the arc of interest seemed pretty steady, the only big change I can see is when all the tutorials end and you arrive on Gran Pulse, but thats at least half way through the storyline, which becomes compelling much earlier in the game.
That's cool you got an emotional reaction out of the ending.
This was one of the few FFs I didn't feel any sort of similar response, oddly enough. I was too busy still being confused by all the weird plot incongruities and madness that happened before/after the final boss. And I dunno... the "heartfelt reunion" scene at the end was so cheesy and cliche, I was smirking and rolling my eyes, but not emotionally moved. But to each their own!
Hey, we totally just turned back from Cie'th by believing in ourselves!
'Cause yeah. That wasn't so great. EDIT: Oh, no, you meant the actual ending. That wasn't so great either. "
Nope you were right, that part confused the hell out of me. That whole scene from start to finish had me in a constant state of "uhhh wut? This makes sense... how?"
I skipped the ending cinematics entirely, that's how little I cared about the story. A fun game, but the story didn't make any sense at all. Or maybe it did, if one bothered to read the datalogs. I refused to do that; just as I refused to read the Codex in Dragon Age: Origins. If a game can't convey all the basic facts you need to know - especially a game with as many lengthy cutscenes as DA:O or FFXIII - there's something seriously wrong with the storytelling in that game...
@Egge: Just because you didn't follow the plot doesn't make it bad or hard to follow. I fully understood what was going on early into the game and I didn't read a single datalog except for character entries until chapter 11.
How people have trouble following such a basic plot without the datalog is beyond me.
We now live in the world where people cry at the end of video games? I didn't understand why people get emotional with movies let alone this? What the hell?
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