So, is the story really as horrible and nonsensical as Spoony makes it out to be?
FFXIII's story is about a group of random people being chosen and receiving magical powers to save the world. But instead of joyfully accepting it like every other story ever, they refuse it, threat it as a curse and spend most of the game trying to escape from it.
IMHO, that's a goddamn brilliant storyline. Knowing that, Lightning describing an area as "training areas for heroes" and getting pissed at it makes total sense (obviously Spoony is busy trying too hard to make fun of it to notice that). The problem is that it's baldy executed, being buried under too much exposition about stuff that don't really matter, too many forced "epic moments", and characters that simply don't work, like Vanille.
And of course, even if it was a massive success in its proposal, I doubt that the weaboos & otakus that it's aimed at would like it. It's sad, there are really good ideas inside Square-Enix, but they all seem chained down by the need to make AAAAA+ RPGs, that sell billions and use every cheap trick in the book to cater to their retarded otaku audiences. Vide FF XII and Monocled Sky-Pirate Balthier being replaced by Tidus-clone Vaan because of focus groups.
at combat system. It fucking plays itself. So not only whole game is a corridor but there isn't any actual gameplay in this game. Like what? Really? Those developers at Square must be trippin on some serious shit and I didn't even mention plot.
