Cradled In Eternity.

[rionaleonhart]

I just completed Final Fantasy XIII! And I sobbed quite a lot at the ending, I have to say.

I think Final Fantasy XIII has actually managed to beat Final Fantasy VIII for my personal 'Favourite Central Cast in a Final Fantasy Game' title. I absolutely love four of the characters - Lightning, Sazh, Snow, Fang - and even the characters I'm less

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[twilit_wanderer]

I do not understand why so many people so vehemently hate FFXIII (I have read most of the arguments. I just ... do not agree with them)! BECAUSE YES. I love iiiit. Though I want to replay it (and, thus, will have to somehow obtain a PS3) before I really figure out where it stands on my overall list. But it is right up there because oh man. EVERYONE ♥ but especially the girls and Sazh.

Also, I feel sort of cheated, because when I beat XIII, first my cat interrupted and then I had to pause again (thank goodness they allowed that...) for my brother. And then it is really awkward to just suddenly start sniffling in that situation. BUT AAAUGH the ending was cruel and I was distraught.

That is interesting about your final battle team, though! I had to switch Sazh in, haha! (My main party was Lightning, Vanille, and Fang, and poor Vanille just couldn't keep up with the level of damage being thrown around.)

Oh, man, that song. When I first reached Oerba and saw all the crystal dust and deciphered the lyrics of that song... oof. Horrified and heartbroken all at once all over again.

[rionaleonhart]

What I find curious is the fact that XIII is slammed for being linear when X was very nearly exactly as linear. It doesn't seem to me that X attracts nearly the same amount of criticism (not that I want it to, because it's my favourite, but it's an odd discrepancy). And there wasn't much opportunity to interact with NPCs in XIII, granted, but I was more than satisfied with the huge emphasis on inter-party interaction in its place.

Honestly, my main criticism of Final Fantasy XIII is that I'd rather the post-game save allowed you to start a new game without the Crystarium caps, because sometimes I like to overlevel myself ridiculously. Ah, well. But that's an extremely minor gripe! And the Crystarium cap does at least ensure that battles always have to be strategic.

(EDIT: Oh, all right, and I'd have liked it if some of the missions on Pulse weren't just 'kill this thing'. That did start to feel a bit unvaried after a while.

Incidentally, I ran across a Cie'th Stone that said 'There's a monster roaming around? And I have to kill it? No! I forsake my Focus! It's probably looking for its parents! I won't cause them the same pain I suffered when my child was killed!'

And I couldn't bring myself to take on the mission, because if I killed the creature this poor person would have become a Cie'th for nothing.)

I love this game. I really do. And I've been having great fun going back and reading your entries on it!

[twilit_wanderer]

It is a bit odd, isn't it? Most of their games are fairly linear, actually, and people like to hate on the games that aren't for being too open or supposedly having no storyline NO of course I am not still annoyed by the grief people give to XI do not be ridiculous (and, really, we all know the real problem here is that fans are never, ever happy the haters just could not handle the sheer awesomeness of the cast).

Aw, they don't allow a super-powered New Game+? Bummer. Still, yeah, not like any of the other main series titles do, either. And I did really like that I never had to worry about whether or not I was leveled up enough to adequately handle boss battles.

(That mission description was so sad! I passed over it, too. But, yeah, those fal'Cie sure are repetitive in their task-handing-out...)