http://kotaku.com/5472712/square-enix-attempts-to-explain-low-western-reviews
I'm not sure what to think, I've read quite a few different things about it. I'm not sure where I stand, but I probably won't buy it. Just rent it thru GameFly. If the battle system is good, I might buy it.
Motomu Toriyama cries about Final Fantasy 13s low scores
Posted by factnfiction101 on Feb. 19, 2010, 4:34 p.m.
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I'm mad that Sazh ended up in such a game. What a waste of an beautiful afro.
Japanese game devs sure like making story driven games. Such a pity the stories are so often contrived, cliche, pretentious rubbish.
^_^
Seriously, take a look at the screenshots."Heroes don't run from fights!""Real heroes don't need plans.""These people need heroes!"Out of 4 dialogue examples, 3 contain the word "heroes". The fourth is "What happened to banding together and saving the world?"*sigh*But you can't forget the fact that the soundtrack is awesome.
Haha figures.
LOL one screenshot is just a black guy with the words DIVERSITY over him.
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Edit, didn't it also get a few bad reviews in japan? I heard a 40%Western studios make linear games all the time, why don't Japanese ones make more open ended ones?
Well they finally ruined their once epic series in such a way they couldn't get reviewers to gush about it.
the final fantasy series used to be open ended. number 1 and 2 were.