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Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

So I'm guessing I should rent this game before making any snap decisions regarding purchasing.

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Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

I have a conundrum with this game. From the demo I can tell you that I love everything artistic about it. The visuals, the environments, the music. All superb. I had the same reaction to the other two XIII games. It's like, the part of Square-Enix in charge of aesthetics is totally doing everything right…it's just the core gameplay and core writing team need to get kicked into a different department.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

PunkBoy posted:

The core gameplay is awesome, and easily one of the best of the franchise. The story is still a Final Fantasy XIII story, so if you weren't tolerant of it before, nothing's going to change now.

I'm not actively offended by bad stories, I usually just love to do mental post-mortems on them to figure out how it could have been better. So then I might actually like this game. The demo doesn't give you more than a tiny taste of what the real action is like, I take it? I didn't have more than some small monsters and one boss to try everything out on.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

Yeah, like the hallway with what looks like little laser lights leaking through it? Gorgeous. How many man-hours did they spend on that?

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