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I don't normally post in the gaming forum but I have recently begun playing FF13 and have some pros and cons. I think I must be about 5 hours in at this point. I am annoyed by the continued cut scenes and extreme linearity of it so far. I don't think I'd mind the cut scenes so much if I actually understood what all of this nonsense was about. L'cie, Pulse L'cie, Fal'cie? WTF is all of this jibberish? A lot of time jumping too, just trying to figure out who is who and how they're tied together. It's confusing and I'm only starting to get an idea of what's going on. Black man has a bird living in his afro!
That said, the new battle system (once you finally get there) is definitely cool. It's great to be able to change the style of your fight on the fly and not have to scroll through pages of items or spells when you can just have your party vary it's paradigm.
Also, these games tend to take a long time to get into. I mean here I am, several hours in and it is still giving me new features and tutorials (i.e. upgrading weapons, getting the summons, etc). That is all well and good, but it also serves as a reminder that this is going to be a long game if they're still teaching me the basics this far in.
One thing I miss is the awesome musical scores that previous versions had. FF7 was definitely epic. It was the first FF that i ever played and it did not disappoint. I played it to death just to get the Knights of the Round summon (I mean, who really wanted to learn how to race and breed chocobos??? I hate those damn creatures). FF8 was awesome, but the silly ball game seemed like a waste of time. FFX was good, but X-2 lost me and then I was out of the PS arena for a while and only recently got a new PS3. When Sephiroth killed Aeris in FF7, I actually was upset by it. Here i had put in so much time in the game and this hot chick who was somehow going to be a part of saving the earth was brutally murdered in front of me in a full motion cut scene that I didn't even realize a game console was capable of producing. By today's standards it was a joke!
I can only hope that some part of this new game can pull me in and get me as attached to the characters to that I really become invested in the game. Hopefully at ~20 hours in something great happens that opens things up. Usually at 20 hours into one of these games I assume I'm getting close to the end. Exactly how long is this game?!?!
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