{"id":232,"date":"2010-01-02T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T02:00:02","slug":"ps3-final-fantasy-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"PS3 &#8211; Final Fantasy XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Final Fantasy XIII<br \/>\n<strong>Console:<\/strong> PS3<br \/>\n<strong>Genre:<\/strong> RPG<br \/>\n<strong>Language:<\/strong>Japanese<br \/>\n<strong>Company:<\/strong> Square Enix<br \/>\n<!--more--><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Story:<\/strong> 8. It actually has an interesting premise when I think about it, but it took me 5 months to finish the game for a good reason. Wasn&#8217;t that enthralling.<br \/>\n<strong>Characters:<\/strong> 9. I wish the characters were more likable from the start, because it wasn&#8217;t until the LAST chapter when I really started to appreciate ALL of the characters. My favorite started off as Lightning, just because she&#8217;s hot and not so comingly-off annoying like the rest. She&#8217;s still awesome. Hope ended up being my favorite probably because of Kaji Yuuki and the whole cute shota-ness I have a weakness for. Eeeeeeeheheheh.<br \/>\n<strong>Graphics:<\/strong> 10. Although it didn&#8217;t &#8220;break the barrier between gameplay and CG scenes&#8221; that they had bragged about, it was still pretty damn awesome. But yeah, still an obvious difference between game cut scenes and the full-on CG scenes. And also between the game cut scenes and the actual game &#8220;sprites&#8221;, which was also apparently in FF&#8217;s PS2 games. But eh&#8230; in comparison with other PS3 games anyway, it&#8217;s a definite 10.<br \/>\n<strong>Sound:<\/strong> 9. I love Masashi Hamauzu&#8217;s music, but this soundtrack took a while to get used to. There are a lot of disappointedly boring tracks on the OST, but the good tracks get stuck in my head quite a lot. Sigma Harmonics is still my favorite of his.<br \/>\n<strong>Gameplay:<\/strong> 8. There&#8217;s actual CHALLENGE in the battles. Or in some cases, just impossible enemies to beat unless you use specific strategies, which was both cool and a great annoyance. What I also hated was having to reset all of my roles assignments every time I wanted to change party members. It DESPERATELY needed some kind of memory storage option for role assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the battle system wasn&#8217;t fun enough to draw me into doing any of the post-game content&#8230; It got very repetitive quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replay Value:<\/strong> 7. There are a lot of things that are only possible after beating the game, if you&#8217;re up to actually doing it. Main complaint about this and many similar games is that there&#8217;s no unlockable cinema to enjoy the main story of the game afterwards. Also, the only point of DOING any of the post-game stuff is to get accomplishment trophies. Do I care? No.<br \/>\n<strong>Overall:<\/strong> 8. It took sooooooo long for everything about the game to grow on me, and I really had to give it patience to do so. I don&#8217;t regret it so much, but I do wish it had captivated me from the start and done so throughout the game, like the other games I rate 10. Still, it was a rather amazing game. A good edition to the FF series.<\/p>\n<p>Also, since I paid $80 and didn&#8217;t feel like I got everything I paid for&#8230; Should&#8217;ve waited for a $40 Japanese version range. But back then, I was still pulled into the Square Enix hype trap. Will be wary of it from now&#8230;<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s still a game worth playing nevertheless!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankakucomplex.com\/2010\/02\/19\/final-fantasy-xiii-ps3-vs-xbox-360-compared-xbox-inferior\/\">bahahaha on the 360<\/a> (adult site warning)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kimitonara.pmsinfirm.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=8&#038;t=212\">Cutscenes complete<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Final Fantasy XIII Console: PS3 Genre: RPG Language:Japanese Company: Square Enix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,42,11,10],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ps3","tag-33","tag-final-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-square-enix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16zCk-3K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}