It’s true, it’s true. The newest edition of Japanese magazine Famitsu awarded the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII with a near-perfect score: a 39 out of 40. According to a Hong Kong gaming forum post called HK Golden, the second person of the Famitsu four-person review crew gave it a 9 because he found “a few niggling issues like battle damage being difficult to see, and the screen being cluttered.” He also mentioned his hesitation to calling FFXIII an “RPG-like RPG”.
On the flip side, Kotaku’s Japan correspondent Brian Ashcraft says one of the reviewers noted that up until the mid-way point of the game, the story seemed to be linear and did not offer any new “gimmicks” in its story-telling. This shouldn’t deter you from getting the game, of course. Unless you really hate RPGs and you can’t read Japanese.
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One issue that was also pointed out; the PS3 actually can handle dual language and boost out better graphics but the developers decided to make it on par with the inferior Xbox 360.
Inferior? Mate, I own both and have run them simultaniously on identical 47″ 1080p lcds. Sorry my friend, but it’s the PS3 that comes off worst. Games jitter and lag more and blu ray is no clearer than HD when regarding games. Put a b/r movie on and you get a nasty “cascade effect”, running down the screen.
Next time you play any of your ps3 games, have a look at what res most of them run at (even the ps3 exclusives) that’s right my pedigree chum, 720p!
So I think that age old adage stands firm here, quantity does not the man maketh!