Japan Gamer sprechen: FF XIII enttäuschend

Im japanischen 2ch Forum haben sich nun viele Gamer über Final Fantasy XIII geäußert und die meisten sind enttäuscht. Als größter Kritikpunkt wird angeführt das FF XIII sehr sehr linear ist.

Weiterhin wird folgendes kritisiert:

• The whole game is completely linear until halfway through [approximately 20 hours].
• There are hardly any towns.
• The party is always fixed. The whole game just repeats the movie-battle sequence over and over [In fact the progression is closer to movie-run-battle-run-movie-boss-movie-run-battle…].
• There are rather a lot of movies.
• Moving around is like a long marathon.
• The whole game system is just a clone of FF10.
• You can’t flee battles [You can’t avoid most battles either as there is no sneaking past enemies, including weak ones].
• Your party is completely healed after each battle.
• If the main character in your party dies it is game over [There are only ever 3 characters in battle, often less, and often fixed].
• The best tactic is almost always endlessly attacking. There is next to no strategy or skill involved.
• The summons’ transformation scenes are a joke [i.e. Odin turning into a horse].
• The story is rubbish…
• Shopping is only done at “online” shops on save points, with no proper shops to be found.
• However, this doesn’t matter as you hardly ever get any money [and you can never buy anything more powerful than what you already looted].
• There have been next to no changes from the demo.
• The status screen displays no real information.
• There are only 8 items usable in combat [For that matter, there are hardly any weapons or accessories, and the “crafting” system mostly consists of spending drops to upgrade their 2 stats].
• There are no levels.

Wie gesagt hierbei handelt es sich um die Aussagen ganz normaler japanischer Fans, welche das Spiel zum Release gekauft hatten. Zu der Sache mit den linearen Leveln wurde noch ein Bild der „Map“ einiger Level geposted. Hier sieht man sehr gut wie extrem linear alles ist. Das Bild findet ihr in Comment #1 dieser News.