This month marks the tenth anniversary of Final Fantasy XIII. It released on March 9, 2010, for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 💝North America. This was a few months after the debut for Japan’s December launch. Since then🌞 it has hopped over to PC and mobile devices along with being backwards compatible on the Xbox One.
This is without question a divisive game for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy fans. Even Square Enix didn’t make a peep about this momentous landmark. Will this ever be officiallyไ re-released? And what makes the game so hard to love? Well, here are ten thin🅠gs that don’t make sense for starters.
10 Dying As The Party Lead
This goes for all RPGs that do this, but what is up with calling Game Over when the party leader dies? Most games that do have a setup like this at least to shift perspectives to a new character thus allowing them the chance to revive a fallen ally. What’s the point in having Phoenix Downs if they can’t revive the party leader? It makes no sense especially whenﷺ a lot of battles boil down to luck.
9 Disjointed Party
It takes about twenty hours before the party is actually formed with all six members and players can actually decide who to play with. Before that characters split off all the time in ways that don’t make sense. Leaving Snow behind at the lake, splitting up at the junk yard, aꦿnd the list goes on.
One of the most ridiculous ones is when Fang and Snow save Lightning and Hope only for Lightning to split off again and do her own thing for no reason.꧂ An entire army is after them. Stick together!
8 Two Hours, No EXP
For anyone wanting to restart this game, or for those playing it for the first time here is a big tip. Don’t fight monsters for the first two hours. Why? Characters don🌼’t get any experience points, or in this case Crystarium Points, until 🌠the party gets to the frozen lake, which is again two hours in.
To have players fight through what is basicallyꦡ two dungeons before they can level up is crazy. There is no warning either.
7 Level Gating
There is another oddity regarding leveling up. Levels are gated. That’s right. Find a boss, or just an area too hard?🌞 One can get enough CP to max out their Crystarium Grid and then cap out. It doesn’t even take that long to reach max level. The grid expands after a boss fight usually, but that doesn’t do any good if said boss is too hard. The balance regarding leveling is completely insane.
6 Items And Money
But wait, there’s another aspect of upgrading the team that takes forever. Before CP is dished out the big commodity won are . No, not money. Enemies never give out money, which is already bonkers for a Final Fantasy game. Instead chips can be cashed in to get money, but their drops are few and far betwe▨en.
There are other items that are basically junk until about five to six hours in wherein these can be used to upgrade weapons. If it w🤪asn’t obvious already Final Fantasy XIII’s biggest senseless crime is its slow pace.
5 Switchblade Tech
Let’s move away from the technical side of things and get into the world building. This entry is more comical than it is frustrating that is to say, but the technology of this world is a bit odd. The scientists have in🔯vested millions on what is essentially switchblade technology.
Lightning’s sword, Vanille’s staff, Hope’s boomerang aꩲnd the list goes on. It’s convenient for storage purposes admittedly, but again, it is funny to think about.
4 Toyetic Summons
Weapons aren’t the only things that transform in this game. Final Fantasy XIII’s version of Summons, or Eidolons, are practically Transformers. For example, Lightning has Odin 💯transform from an armored knight into a horse. The weirdest of the bunch is Snow riding in-between two female versions of what is basically Shiva. He is literally riding wom🤡en on a motorcycle. If it doesn’t make one shake their head in disgust it will at least make one laugh.
3 Down Goes Mom
One of the most crucial scenes happens in the beginning where Snow fails to save Hope’s mom, Nora. Snoꦐw then falls the same distance and lives while she dies. He doesn’t have any extra cushioning and she wasn’t impaled by anything.
Sure, two people in reality couldꦿ suffer the same fate. Bodies are different and all that jazz. It is still a strange point of contention that is never really addressed.
2 Hope’s Sudden Love For Soldiers
After the junk yard Hope and Lightning wander into a forest. It is about halfway through that they stumble upon some downed soldiers. Even though they are the ones that essentially killed his mom and have been pursuing them this w﷽hole time, he has a s🐻udden change of heart and wants to help them. Oh right, and they’ve killed dozens prior to this. This scene seems like it was thrown in just to have another reason for Lightning to lecture Hope. It makes absolutely no sense.
1 Focuses
The biggest logic hole is in regard to l'Cie and fal'Cie besides the fact that they throw those terms around like caꦇndy. When a human becomes imbued with one of these two entities, they are given a Focus, which is a goal. For example, perhaps the fal'Cie wants some apple juice.
Get them their treat and the human is then rewarded with etꦐernal bliss as a crystal. Fail and that human becomes a monster. Yet these beings don’t tellꦫ them what their Focuses are. They are cryptic flashes of a dream and must be interpreted. That’s some “good” planning on their part.