The Very Big Final Fantasy XIII Thread

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Threads merged. Again.

Originally Posted by Yumil

I hear FF13 doesn't even open up till Chapter 11, quite a ways in, In fact, I hear you can't even back track

Sounds like FFX, to be honest. Not entirely because you could backtrack in FFX but then again it was a bit of a pain to actually do it so to me it sounds close enough, at least.

I don't quite buy into this notion that linear games are per se worse than nonlinear ones. If a game is good and the story and gameplay hold my attention I don't particularly care if I can make a side trip to Bel'gov'ia' Desert to collect 700 cactus flowers for the shopkeeper anytime I want. Slagging a game that's designed to be linear for that very fact seems a bit like slagging Mega Man 9 for outdated graphics. (I'm aware Final Fantasy may be the wrong series for which to cite story quality as an element.)

... I did curse FFX many times for how much of a pain backtracking was though but then again the only reason I ever wanted to backtrack was to get video spheres or whatever before Dark Aeons showed up, so basically just video game collectable OCD.

Please also note that I haven't actually read very many FFXIII reviews or this thread so if at any point in my post you catch yourself thinking "but that's not what this is about at all" that's likely the reason.