FINAL FANTASY XIII-2.....

Since it's Black History Month in America; I'd like to point out my disappointment that this game doesn't have a token black guy.

From the article Tau linked:

Worse, the developers are content to shove the characters into situations that have nothing to do with the core story and force them to act in artificial or contradictory ways.
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It’s also even more melodramatic and, as the premise is extremely high concept, the character interactions are made even shallower to try and compensate.
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“Our ultimate goal is rectifying every single point in Final Fantasy XIII that has been criticized by the users,” Toriyama -- who also directed XIII-2 -- told me at last year’s E3. “We actually took those criticisms very seriously, and you'll notice that we tackled them completely and thoroughly.”

That is also not vision.
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It seems to be a mishmash of shallow changes and quick fixes. It keeps a great deal of what was close at hand from the last game because it’s convenient, and paints over much of it with a thin veneer.
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Mini-games add variety to a constrained design. Capturing and using monsters in battle adds variety and control for players that the last game, which forced the player to use a set party until very close to its conclusion, lacked. Neither, however, are original ideas, nor are they significantly tweaked from existing designs. And the addition of intermittent dialogue choices and Quick Time Events seem lazily calculated to appeal to Western gaming sensibilities.

Sometimes i feel like people are trying to find very complicated and abstract ways to make FFXIII/2 look shallower than they actually are.

While I don't fundamentally disagree with the points brought up in the article, it seems like the journalist is taking things and presenting them under a bad light to make them look unappealing on purpose.


Every streamlining will be described as lazy/uninspired development process and every addition will be described as something randomly put there to attrach more players.

Sometimes i feel like people are trying to find very complicated and abstract ways to make FFXIII/2 look shallower than they actually are.

Some people are trying desperately to find faults in the game to justify their dogmatic insistence that every time a new FF comes out, it's the worst game in the series.

I just had the chance to really start playing it yesterday and I'm having a great time. The gameplay is easily some of the most fun I've had playing an RPG in a long, long time.

why does he talk about star wars every 3 seconds?

Continue references to outside material it's a subtle way to belittle the main subject of the discussion. Which further reinforces my impression that the journalist is consciously trying to make the game look blander and less relevant.

Some people are trying desperately to find faults in the game to justify their dogmatic insistence that every time a new FF comes out, it's the worst game in the series.

On top of that they'll also justify every bad design choices in the old FFs to make them look more perfect and inspired in comparsion. lol