Final Fantasy XIII impressions

Just hopped onto Palamecia. Man, they reached waaaaaay back for this one, lol.

I'm like 1 step away from the final dungeon. Had to stop there, it's my cousin's room and he wanted to sleep.

Also, Army Of One = God.

Here are some tips for you guys;

1. ATB Cancel: You need great timing for this one. Once your character has executed their last attack on the ATB, switch to another Paradigm, and their ATB bar will be full instantly.

2. Once Lightning begins using Army of One, Paradigm change to Commando for higher damage output (handy for when your chain's 999%). This is a bug, and works for all Limit Drives.

Well. I just beat an adamantortoise by accident.

Didn't get the trophy for some reason...

I just beat the game. Doing the quests now and upgrading pomegranate.

I heard the ultimate weapons give you an extra ATB gauge...

Baaaawwwww. They're making me fight 3 140k hp enemies at once. All of them have a low hp 'screw you and your stagger' attack.

I'm at the Hecatoncheir fight right now. I'm really liking this game.

Square Enix on Tonberry's

LOL GUYS
LETS BE
ASSHOLES
CREATE ATTK THAT OHKO'S ?
CHECK
DOES IT DOUBLE IN DAMAGE EVERY TIME THEY USE IT?
CHECK
DOES IT DEBUFF YOU AND LOCK YOUR SKILLS??
DOES IT HEAL THEM COMPLETELY
???
FUCKING CHECK

No towns/cities in this game?

No towns/cities in this game?

There are, but they're not towns in the traditional Final Fantasy sense.

There are, but they're not towns in the traditional Final Fantasy sense.

No. People need to stop saying this.

There are no cities or towns. There are dungeons that take place in cities, but there are no actual cities inhabited by people that you can communicate with. None.

No. People need to stop saying this.

There are no cities or towns. There are dungeons that take place in cities, but there are no actual cities inhabited by people that you can communicate with. None.

Exactly!! =/
I think this FF is missing too much of the traditional FF series =/
And the battle system sucks! i hate i cant change between leaders.

Exactly!! =/
I think this FF is missing too much of the traditional FF series =/
And the battle system sucks! i hate i cant change between leaders.

The first half of the game is story driven. Later on, you'll have more freedom with the battle system.

No. People need to stop saying this.

There are no cities or towns. There are dungeons that take place in cities, but there are no actual cities inhabited by people that you can communicate with. None.

The Nautilus

After 57 hours of gameplay, I've beaten it as well. I seriously QQd at the ending video. The graphics were beautiful.

SPOILZ

 Spoiler

Orphan's 2nd form almost OHKO attack was painful. Thankfully for Hope's max heals and him not being dumb, only took 8 tries to kill it!

But yeah.. It's got tons of replay value. But just not now. I'm basking in the fact that I beat another game.

I took down the final boss in 1 try. Buy 3 Cherub's Crowns, that's like 80% Death Resist, then he can't do pomegranate to you. I knew this beforehand so I was lucky.

Halfway through Chapter 3 (fought the first boss in it); using the CE guide the whole time. I lost two times at that boss because I missed a +HP item earlier, so I had to backtrack for it.

Impressions so far: Everything is beautiful, battle system is a little dull early on but it's getting better, VAs are good except for Vanille, Hope is angsty but I'm relatively tolerant for angsty characters and he has some good reasons, I need to use subtitles because I couldn't always hear what people were saying, and Snow and Sazh are much cooler than expected.

To expand on that, Sazh isn't really... well, stereotyped. Well, he is a little, but to the extent that he would be in a US movie... maybe less so, even.

Overall, I'm enjoying it a lot. I don't know if I would be if I had played any other main FF game before this- I came in with no real expectations as to gameplay, and I think that helped.

EDIT 3/31: Got ~1/2 through Chapter 4, saved right after boss battle.

The combat is finally coming together, with Paradigm Shifting happening a lot. Apparently you get to use the first summon at the end of this chapter, so I'm looking forward to that.