Hiya!
Since I have no one to discuss xiii series with (I know type-0 counts too, but....fuck it), I decided a thread was enough to suffice.
So let's begin, shall we?
Lightning - Getting her out of the way first. I know she can be hit or Miss in terms of popularity with gamers (mostly miss, it seems), I don't think she was particularly terrible as protagonist. That is until I played LR and they ran out of shit for her to do. Still though, she had a good cause for what she was doing and I still think her intro sequence on the train in XIII was...idk, cool? For lack of a better term. She was better than vaan, at least. Also army of one is so badass.
Battle System - what's not to like? I mean, you get a pretty basic system in the first 20 or so hours of xiii, then the game opens up and really let's loose. I remember the carnage I was doing up to the point in the game where you first fight barthandelus and my friend being like, "idk wtf is going on.."
But I did And it was great.
Xiii-2 introduced the Pokemon-esque monster third slot and on-the-fly main character swapping, which to me, felt a little like compensating for the lack of a full team ala xiii. Still though, the battle systems pretty dope and I didn't see the need to change it up much since it flowed so well. That is until LR, of course.
Presentation - speaking mostly for xiii which pretty much went all out in terms of presentation:
From the Pre rendered cutscenes to the graphical quality and menus....everything was prestine and I especially liked the nice touch they added to the menus in xiii which briefly played a clip from each characters respective cutscene that displays their personality best.
I was gonna talk music but I can go on and on about how great the xiii series' OSTs are...
What about you guys? I want to hear your thoughts. Or maybe I'm the only one here that likes the games? (Hope not).
Since I have no one to discuss xiii series with (I know type-0 counts too, but....fuck it), I decided a thread was enough to suffice.
So let's begin, shall we?
Lightning - Getting her out of the way first. I know she can be hit or Miss in terms of popularity with gamers (mostly miss, it seems), I don't think she was particularly terrible as protagonist. That is until I played LR and they ran out of shit for her to do. Still though, she had a good cause for what she was doing and I still think her intro sequence on the train in XIII was...idk, cool? For lack of a better term. She was better than vaan, at least. Also army of one is so badass.
Battle System - what's not to like? I mean, you get a pretty basic system in the first 20 or so hours of xiii, then the game opens up and really let's loose. I remember the carnage I was doing up to the point in the game where you first fight barthandelus and my friend being like, "idk wtf is going on.."
But I did And it was great.
Xiii-2 introduced the Pokemon-esque monster third slot and on-the-fly main character swapping, which to me, felt a little like compensating for the lack of a full team ala xiii. Still though, the battle systems pretty dope and I didn't see the need to change it up much since it flowed so well. That is until LR, of course.
Presentation - speaking mostly for xiii which pretty much went all out in terms of presentation:
From the Pre rendered cutscenes to the graphical quality and menus....everything was prestine and I especially liked the nice touch they added to the menus in xiii which briefly played a clip from each characters respective cutscene that displays their personality best.
I was gonna talk music but I can go on and on about how great the xiii series' OSTs are...
What about you guys? I want to hear your thoughts. Or maybe I'm the only one here that likes the games? (Hope not).
