Okay, the games been out two days, you can't have beaten the game yet.
Why does this feel more like you played it just so you could bitch about it, no matter what it was. You found out now after all this time, videos, advertisement, etc. that Noel is a mayor character? I don't believe it, specially since like Bio Yu Gi said the game has been out for two days, and you payed $60 bucks for it.
This really does feel less like a legitimate review, and more like a full-blown rant. I won't comment on the legitimacy of the points themselves, having barely played XIII and not played XIII-2, but the general tone of the review hurts its credibility.
I try not to read previews. Inevitably they contain spoilers of either the subtle or the not-so-subtle variety.
It is a rant, and I haven't beaten it. I'm probably one of the few people in the West who actually enjoyed FFXIII, and I feel utterly, completely let down here. Seven hours in so far, and the game feels just so wrong in so many ways. I probably will beat it (after all, I did pay 60 bucks for it), but unlike FFXIII which had The Infamous Tube for most of the game and then an open-world area, this one isn't likely to suddenly gain narrative coherence- it's not like they'll have a "bad writing" area and a "good writing" area later on.
Hmm, I've never actually watched Doctor Who. Maybe I should mute this and have the audio from that going, and pretend one is the other...
Maybe it's because Lightning isn't the main character in this. Serrah just strikes me as a poor replacement.
Definitely a hate rant instead of a legitimate review of someone who has completed the game and looking at strengths, weaknesses, characterization, and story subjectively.
You talk like you already finished the game, exhibit A
Man, opinions on Noel are all over the place. Every time I here someone say he's bad, I here the next person say he's a better protagonist than Cloud, Squall, and Tidus. This fanbase is schizophrenic.
Such as Unpleasable Fanbase that it assumes me. Beat the game before you complain.
Say it in red! "People die when they are killed."
Hey, I think at I'm at the same place in the game as the reviewer! I'm nowhere near finished either.
I have finished the game, and I can say that these are actual flaws of the game, if stated in an overblown manner. Caius really is a terrible villain, Noel is just kind of boring, and the time travel mechanics are horribly arbitrary and largely nonsenical
The only part I really feel the need to dispute is the bit about the puzzles; while they're laughably easy in the main storyline, this is very much not the case in the optional areas
Now that I've re-read the review, I find it laughable just because of how angry it sounds regardless of his points, like this guy just came home from a bad day at work and decided to take it out on whatever was convenient.
Wow. This has to be one of the most ridiculous rants I've ever heard. I've beaten the game, and while FFXIII-2 isn't perfect, it's not the worst thing to happen to the FF series - personally, I like it and think it's an improvement over XIII. True, a couple of the flaws pointed out here are legitimate, but they and the others are stated in such an overemotional tone and without any true justification that any credibility for the author's points is all but gone. To me, this entire review - if it even deserves to be called that - should be completely discounted; it doesn't even acknowledge any of the good things FFXIII-2 brings to the fray or tries to reason out as to why the game has what flaws it does. In short, it's an "argument" only a child would consider putting up here and is an injustice to both the game and the fans and/or reviewers willing to give it a chance.
You must be new to tv trope reviews, prepare to be even more dissapointed in the short future.
"You must be new to tv trope reviews, prepare to be even more dissapointed in the short future."
Somehow, this isn't surprising.
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Bleah.
Unlikeable characters, a dumbed-down Crystarium, stupid puzzles, and general nonsense combine to make this FF less appealing than FFXIII.
First we have Caius, some oversworded pretty-boy who looks like some retard's OC. Seriously, he has all of the flaws of particularly bad original characters: a big purple sword with big purple powers for no good reason, inexplicable summons, strange emo motivations, and he feels like a cheap ripoff of FF 7's and 9's main villains. The FFXIII universe has plenty of potential Big Bad candidates in the fal'Cie. Instead, we get this loser.
About five seconds after Noel dropped in out of nowhere, I silently prayed that please, please, please not let me see too much more of him. He's one of the main characters. Why, God, why? He's like FF 9's Zidane, but without any of the wit or whimsy. At least he doesn't go full-bird emo. Serah is the girliest girl who ever girled girl, and why she's running around with this crackhead instead of, well, Snow?
There are handfuls of intelligent dialogue in this game as someone had the wisdom to project common sense upon the cipher that is Noel (if the player has the brains to select the right dialogue choices), but they're overshadowed by the nonsensical plot, which is hopefully just an artifact of strange translation and cultural misunderstandings. You go forward into the future to solve "paradoxes" (they do not think this word means what I think it means), which, in turn, alter the past. Why couldn't they have just gone with something more like Chrono Trigger? No, instead we get FF 8's Time Compression and FF 10's world map (or lack thereof)...
Basically, Square Enix said "We're sorry for FFXIII, so here, have a combination of every 3D FF game we've ever made."
Yes, FFXIII was linear, but at least it had a plot that was at least somewhat logical in FF terms and its characters were reasonable. There's a part in this game where we get an incoherent lecture on how changing the future is bad from the main boss, who stops to fight you and then runs away (what was the point of that?), and he's trying to do what again? This is after we put a familiar place back together again, with "puzzles" that wouldn't challenge a five year old with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Sorry, Square Enix. You fixed the problems with FFXIII, but you added plenty of new ones.