Final Fantasy XIII

It's time to return to the Fabula Nova Crystallis universe, everyone's favorite six years of Square Enix's definitely not troubled existence. Like Motomu Toryama, Final Fantasy XIII is my favorite Final Fantasy game. Because, as he himself said, "...I can confront any powerful enemy if I'm with Lightning, the strongest heroine."

He's right that Lightning "Worst birthday ever." Farron truly is the strongest heroine. Destiny is destiny...

...Meow-meow choco-chow...

You know, sometimes I really am embarrassed to like the XIII trilogy as much as I do, and believe me, I really do. But it's not as though any main-line game since VI has had a better story, and I didn't play the older games back in the day, so I don't have the nostalgia for them.

But Lightning Returns could quite easily be one of the worst games in the series. Which sucks, because it's so obvious that Tri-Ace was attempting to fuse Chrono Trigger and Valkyrie Profile with this game, which under normal circumstances would be the best game ever. But I guess they just weren't able to keep Hope alive. The results were arguably worse than the last two times someone tried recreating the success of Chrono Trigger.

XIII wasn't much better with it's gibberish in media res opening that kept the actually good aspects of the story from making enough sense on first playing. Not to mention the extremely limited gameplay. But at least it had that soundtrack to try and save it. I still have fond memories of people on neogaf arguing over whether XIII or Nier was the soundtrack of the generation. Hamauzu really did a great job with these games. They couldn't have done much better of a job at following up Uematsu's departure from the company.

But XIII-2, now that's a game you could set your watch to. I'll actually be posting about XIII-2 again later though. So we can save the talk about that till then. So I'll stop babbling and we can get to the pictures. Enjoy.