Pariah Culexus wrote...
Now that we are on the topic of games to pass the time untill ME3, I was wondering whether to get Final Fantasy XIII, mostly in order to hear some of Ali Hillis as Lightning and was wondering whether anyone here had played it for either the same or other reasons and could tell me whether it is good, beyond our blue goddess' voice actor.
If you like Final Fantasy, then go ahead - I'd say you'd enjoy it.
Voice acting is well done and the story's more or less a typical FF tale, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing
Gameplay isn't too bad and you can get into it, it just lacks variation and the linear 'between moment' areas can begin to grate on you, but it does open up nicely once you reach what is essentially Hyrule Field; a kinda 'sandbox' world-map.
And it's graphics, particularly the cutscenes, are brilliant done
So, yeah, I enjoyed it, but I've only played through it the once and don't really plan on doing it again. But I don't regret it
Hope that helps in some way