Talk:KAITO/@comment-5568582-20121222163943/@comment-5532114-20121225003139

Yes backtracking is going easy, the whole FFXIII-2 was going easy because it was made using existing assets and previously rejected build. It was made in one year and a half though and I don't mind that at all. It still gave me plenty of fun and there was enough areas to not feel as if I was in the same places all the time, plus it was actually logical to backtrack given the plot? I still spent like 70 hours on this game and don't regret any minute, it was fun as hell.

I don't value the opinion of journalists at all. An opinion doesn't become more valuable just because it's being paid for. Plus I can't take seriously western press when they keep giving straight tens to every new Call of Duty even though it's the same game every year and they keep drooling over every new Gears of War and Mass Effect no matter what.

When it comes to taste in games, I trust Famitsu a lot more, if anything.

About the score, yeah I edited that part of the comment, since I only realized after a while you were talking about FFXIII and not XIII-2, but still there is something like 20 games that scored 40/40 in Famitsu so XIII-2 scoring that much doesn't suddenly make it the best game ever according to Japanese press. It's not like it's the most prestigious award a game can get there and it's not like Famitsu is the only gaming magazine in Japan. It's just that, an opinion of those four editors.

They didn't scrap half of the game, it's a huge hiperbole. They scrapped a lot of content because they were running out of time and the engine proved to be difficult to work with, this being their first HD experience using their own tools. So they had to cut out some ideas or else the game would take as much as Versus to make. But there was never supposed to be DLC to FFXIII. I remember them telling as much in some interview. DLC to FFXIII-2 was the first for them and they only made it because it was one of the things the players kept asking for, and they actually were very cautious about doing that.

And like I said two times already, they were definitely not dissapointed with how the first game sold. It sold like hotcakes, something over six million copies, and recently they announced the total amount of sold copies of FFXIII and FFXIII-2 is something above nine millions units sold and it's one of the most profitable franchises and that they are happy with it.

tl;dr

No.