My gripes with the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy
Final Fantasy 13. The game that is considered to be one of the weakest Final Fantasy games ever created in the history of the franchise. The original Final Fantasy 13 wasn't even that bad to be honest, but things turned south once they decided to milk the story for everything it was worth by giving it not ONE, but TWO sequels. Yes, TWO sequels. Now I know what some of you are thinking, "Final Fantasy 13-2 and Lightning Returns were great games." First of all, those of you who think that FF13 was one of the strongest games in the franchise need to leave, now, and never come back...ever. Secondly, the sales speak for themselves people.
*First of all, I just want to get this off of my chest. I hate the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, and when I say I hate it, I mean I really HATE it. To be more clear, I think that Final Fantasy 13 is a fine game, I would even say that it isn't as bad as people say it is. When I say I hate the trilogy, I am mostly talking about the 2nd and 3rd installments of said trilogy. However, my distaste for the game is not the same as the circlejerk that you would find on other places on the internet, because I actually have reasons for my dislike of the game.
My main reason why I think that Final Fantasy 13 suffered from its predecessors was because of the weak story that it had, and the fact that the characters were not compelling in the slightest. Honestly, I feel like Lightning is such a terrible main character for the series. I didn't find myself attached to Lightning at all during my play through of Final Fantasy 13, and in hindsight, I'd say that Snow would've made a much better main character. I felt like they tried way too hard to make Lightning seem cool and collected, and I think it made her come off as boring and non-polarizing. During my play through I felt like the supporting characters personalities were more likable due to the fact that I disliked Lightning so much, except for Hope, because screw that whiny character.
My other gripe with the trilogy is the story line of the trilogy. I am going to be honest with you folks, I couldn't understand what was happening after I watched a play through of Final Fantasy 13-2. From my understanding, at the end of Final Fantasy 13, Lightning gets frozen in time, and will be resurrected as "God's" champion in Final Fantasy Lightning Returns. In Final Fantasy 13-2 Serah, Lightning's sister, tries to stop all of the ripples in time from occurring, and she tries to stop Caius from basically destroying time. Now I know that Final Fantasy 13-2 has different endings, but I just didn't understand the plot at all. Maybe if I were to go through it again and pay more attention to the plot I guess I could understand it better, but as a player, I shouldn't have to do that. A plot shouldn't be so confusing that I have to do in-depth research on the plot to fully understand it.
Those are basically my two main reasons why I dislike the franchise, and I don't think I will try understanding it anytime soon.
*First of all, I just want to get this off of my chest. I hate the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, and when I say I hate it, I mean I really HATE it. To be more clear, I think that Final Fantasy 13 is a fine game, I would even say that it isn't as bad as people say it is. When I say I hate the trilogy, I am mostly talking about the 2nd and 3rd installments of said trilogy. However, my distaste for the game is not the same as the circlejerk that you would find on other places on the internet, because I actually have reasons for my dislike of the game.
My main reason why I think that Final Fantasy 13 suffered from its predecessors was because of the weak story that it had, and the fact that the characters were not compelling in the slightest. Honestly, I feel like Lightning is such a terrible main character for the series. I didn't find myself attached to Lightning at all during my play through of Final Fantasy 13, and in hindsight, I'd say that Snow would've made a much better main character. I felt like they tried way too hard to make Lightning seem cool and collected, and I think it made her come off as boring and non-polarizing. During my play through I felt like the supporting characters personalities were more likable due to the fact that I disliked Lightning so much, except for Hope, because screw that whiny character.
My other gripe with the trilogy is the story line of the trilogy. I am going to be honest with you folks, I couldn't understand what was happening after I watched a play through of Final Fantasy 13-2. From my understanding, at the end of Final Fantasy 13, Lightning gets frozen in time, and will be resurrected as "God's" champion in Final Fantasy Lightning Returns. In Final Fantasy 13-2 Serah, Lightning's sister, tries to stop all of the ripples in time from occurring, and she tries to stop Caius from basically destroying time. Now I know that Final Fantasy 13-2 has different endings, but I just didn't understand the plot at all. Maybe if I were to go through it again and pay more attention to the plot I guess I could understand it better, but as a player, I shouldn't have to do that. A plot shouldn't be so confusing that I have to do in-depth research on the plot to fully understand it.
Those are basically my two main reasons why I dislike the franchise, and I don't think I will try understanding it anytime soon.
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