Despite how busy I’ve been recently, I had to purchase Final Fantasy XIII the day it came out and play through it. It’s been a tradition of mine since I got the very first Final Fantasy at Jamesway for the NES. I’m pretty sure it was the first $50 game that I had gotten at the time.
This installment didn’t disappoint, and it’s really amazing to see just how far the series and technology has come over the years. The overall production values put into this game were simply amazing. I can’t imagine just how many hours must’ve went into making it, it was like a 55+ hour hollywood movie.
XIII was a lot different than the previous one’s I’ve played, but the majority of the changes were welcomed. The combat and leveling up took a little adjustment for me, but didn’t take too long to make sense.
I think from start to finish this game took me 55 hours to play through, or about 3 months. So you do get your moneys worth with this one. The artwork was really impressive, there’s some very talented people working at Square-Enix. I did wish that there were some more Chocobos in the game