As promised, I took the afternoon to play Final Fantasy XIII with the new collector's edition player guide, which is hardbound and really well done. The game is shaping up nicely thus far. I'm excited to see what the future holds.
I’ve played Final Fantasy 13 for roughly five or six hours now and it’s starting to get good. The only concern I have is that it is feeling really linear. Part of the magic of the franchise is being able to take 20 hours and go do side quests, level up and get hidden summons, etc. I hope they haven’t taken that out because it took far too long to get this title on the market and after the utterly forgettable Final Fantasy XII, it would mean that Square-Enix is nothing compared to what it once was (I talked about this in the article on Mistwalker Studios).
Blue Dragon, for example, rocked my world. The story and plot get going deeper and deeper and you were pleasantly surprised in every sense of the word. I hope Final Fantasy XIII can capture that same plot depth. We’ll see …
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