I beat an RPG for a change!

[freezingrayne]

Finished Final Fantasy 13 last night!




I was mostly totally down with the ending--Fang and Vanille saving the world=awesome, and I cried. A couple plot points confused me, thought. Like, why were they attacking Orphan in the first place? Isn't that the opposite of what they came to do? And I didn't get why Fang started to try to kill Vanille--possibly I missed something.

I am also 100% with the people who say wtf why save Cocoon? It's a world full of racist ass-hats who just seem to be partying all the time (from the amount of parades/public spectacles your party interupts) I say let it go to hell, much the way I felt about Inaba in Persona 4. Get the, like, five decent people out of it and then burn it the fuck down.

I personally didn't mind not having towns or extensive sidequesting/chocobo riding, which seemed to be the main point of contention people had with the game. That, and every single reviewer seemed to hate Vanille. Alright, she is fairly bubbly and her voice is a little high, but I found her incredibly strong and likeable. Perhaps some reviewers simply can't handle there being that many awesome ladies getting shit done all over the place.

There pretty much wasn't any point after the first two hours or so when I didn't want to hug Hope to death and ruffle his hair.

I also thought it was cool that the hero's journey didn't revolve around a love story. Enix has been pretty good at mixing that up. Final Fantasy X was about love, XII was about duty and king and country, and XIII was about family. Still, I am awaiting the day when the female protagonist has a love-interest. They never seem to.

They are apparently making an ff13-2, which, okay, more Lighting=definitely cool with me, but Enix has made sequels before, and we all remember how well that went. *Cough*Yuna*cough*. I guess as long as they don't make Lightning a popstar, I'll be okay with it.

Comments

[freezingrayne]

I was fairly okay with everyone's clothes in FF12, if only because most of them were from a desert kingdom, where it would make sense not to wear so much.
Though it always irritates me when no one puts on a fucking jacket in the snowy mountains, but I guess that's a pain to render.

[green_animation]

I was just stuck on PINK. MINISKIRT. That would trap your legs if you wanted to run or kick or *gah* - at least Fran and Penelo could fight, y'know?

[freezingrayne]

Heh, yeah. And I loved Balthier's outfit, but a molded leather vest over a silk shirt? Hella sweaty.

[green_animation]

Oh yes, but a pirate - sorry, gentleman pirate - has to keep up appearances. And all the judges wearing all that heavy armour - necessary for warfare I think but so heavy and sweltering.