i played the intro of this and it's so goddamn awfull words can't express it, the writing is so bad! no... don't give me that shit about final fantasy writing being bad, this is worse! "I WENT INTO A SLEEP AS DARK AS DEATH" do even goth kids speak like this? heck do even pretend goth kids speak like that? and everything that has been built in FF13 has just been thrown away for this super lazy boring premise about how you have to help god and now it's just god this and god that,he doesn't even have a name,a shape or a character! it's even worse because we already had god-like entity that loved to order people around but they had features,so all they had to do was making a new one but even that was too much work...
and why everything in this game happen? because god did it or hope want you to do so, you might as well replace them with a wizard... final fantasy 13: A Wizard Did It would have been a more approriate title for this game
you'd think they themself would realize how lazy and stupid the premise is,handwave the whole thing and cut to the chase as soon as possible but lightning is an exposition machine,narrating fact as slow as possible and abusing the words light and dark like oscar does with andrex, if i made a drinking game where i'd drink everytime they get mentioned i'd be fucking dead of alcohol poisoning!
then there is the fact that the game has to desperately try to piece together the two previous games in a way that makes a logical sense and does it in painfull flashback nobody gives a damn about, heck i got to the point where i wanted to skip the dialogue,fuck it,i don't skip dialogue,i play these game for the dialogue but i swear to that god who make this game plot go around that i wanted to skip the dialogue of this game less than an hour in
there is this part after the intro where you investigate some murder and everytime you speak with someone,hope pops out of nowhere and goes "LIGHTNING,THAT WAS SOME USEFULL INFORMATION" even after one of the NPC tells you the exact same thing the previous NPC told you,and he never ever shuts up,it's worse than a nintendo game and slowly but inexorable end's up giving you an headache
the rest of the game is just sort of dullish,the only thing that really looks interessing is the combat but even that so far has been reduced to "keep O pressed until lightning has murdered everything,press X when the enemy do his super obvious attack animation,switch clothes once in a while"
i think i'll stick a little longer because i played very little and i heard the game has tons of difficulty spikes which at least would make the fight more interessing but honestly it gives off a really awfull first impression
