final fantasy XII VS Final fantasy XIII

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

Personally I would say IX as the first genuinely bad FF game, with a good story, but a sharp decline in gameplay design and presentation. The shear number of easy random battles really irritating and the boss battles felt much shallower than prior games, particularly VIII. Back on topic, anyway, XII was a return to the formula of my favorite FF game, II. And it pulled it off better than II itself did it, albiet with star wars references up the wazoo. XIII, like IX, had a story that was quite good, but the haste to tell the story as spectacularly as possible caused a failure on the gameplay design, though at least the balance was much more enjoyable than IX.



Incidentally XIII was always planned as a serial game.

I've always been extremely fond of IX. Yes, it had its issues, but I feel it's immensely underappreciated. Of course, that's my opinion.

And I know XIII was planned to be a serial game, but they could at least do the players the courtesy of wrapping up the story within the game, as opposed to LITERALLY

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Slamming a black screen with white "To be Continued" text in the middle in our faces.

It's nothing short of pathetic.