Unless you want to vomit...

I for one am a lover of Final Fantasy games. I like the style, innovative play, and characters that it gives us. Usually. And more often than not I leave the game after a battle feeling happy how I was rewarded for playing such an at times difficult boss or monster.  That was until I played Final Fantasy 13. Or as it has been come to be called in my house: the bane of my PS3. Graphics wise this game is beautiful. Environments,  characters, weapons, and effects are very nice to look at. Graphic wise it is solid. Combat wise feels like a half heated RTS they pulled from their MMOs and said "Deal with it." I'm sorry but when I play Final Fantasy I want a turn based game.... Not this. I also want to be able to control what my fellow party members are doing. Do I get to in this? No. The game feels like it's some off shoot world where Zanarkand kind of won the war with Bevelle eons ago and they kept the machina. That was probably because of the music which sounds HEAVILY FFX inspired. When you fight in this game, you don't win even if you are declared the victor. You get no money after battles, hardly  get items even with a 5 star rating most of the time and very little CP. This sucks monumentally as abilities later on can cost up to 80,000 points to unlock 1 spot. Things in shops are EXPENSIVE and add that to the grind you have to do constantly to obtain items to sell to get money you're getting boned harder than a helpless damsel being held hostage by a horn dog army of tentacle monsters. And let's not forget that wonderful little bug that will cause your' system to die if the game freezes.

THAT'S RIGHT KIDDDIES: FFXIII is so bad it will cause your' PS3 to do the Sony equivalent of Red Ring but broguht on by your game!

Don't buy this game. Rent it from a friend. Watch a playthrough on Youtube. Unless you are suffering from mind numbing boredom and have nothing else to do DON'T PLAY THIS!!! Don't give Square Enix you're hard earned money. It's sad but due to the absence of good rewards in here, this game has suffered a horrific blow to it's name sake and I can only pray FFXIII-2 can fix it. If not: my love for Final Fantasy has died and I won't be buying another game of this series ever again. ... Unless it's an older version on PSN, then I will buy that because those were good. So technically my love won't be dead... Just horribly horribly maimed.