Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy was the first RPG I ever played, and I was a major fan of the series for the next three games. However, after that my interest started to wane in a serious way. I'm not entirely sure why, although I found the linearity of Final Fantasy X dissapointing and the story of XII, while not bad, didn't grip me in the way the previous games had. The combat system was also a little too close to the sort of thing you'd see in an MMO, which I do not generally play for their thrilling battles.

So I haven't really been anticipating Final Fantasy XIII all that much. This trailer, however, may have changed my mind.

One reason is that it seems to bear quite a large similarity to Toward the Terra, which as you can probably tell from the fact that I'm doing a Let's Watch of it, I enjoyed quite a lot. More than that though, the story just seems interesting. Square have kind of gone off the deep-end lately with overblown nonsense like Advent Children (I don't care how cool the fight scenes were, the damn thing made no sense), and even though XIII is obviously replicating it in some aspects of it's combat system, the story looks a lot more mature. Plus: a protagonist who isn't annoying or boring. And a woman.