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XV still has some suspenseful moments and plays with your false sense of security as bad things happen to the cast left and right, XIII plays it so safe that every time it teases something disastrous you know it will never go through with it, and most of the time it doesn't so I give XV the point here for being a little more ballsy. In fact any time the game had a chance to go in a daring direction it always took the safest route. You spend a lot of time wishing the cool parts had been playable which is disappointing, my issue with XIII is that the plot had several chances to go into very interesting directions and never did. I feel the biggest problem with both stories is that for XV, all the cool world shattering stuff happens off screen, or in the DLC.
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Both endings are basically Deus ex Machina's but XV's makes a bit more sense as opposed to XIII's being a literal one you won't understand unless you read the Ultimania, play the sequel or listen to blowhards like myself rant about it. Plot: Again, both have problems but XV's is generally less insulting to one's intelligence up until the end and the whole "King of Light Prophecy" makes you raise an eyebrow as you really start to think about it. Something as simple as the infrastructure of the world designed to protect people from the constant daemon infestations is underappreciated whereas by Lightning Returns, it feels like the whole fal'Cie/l'Cie drama is an afterthought which sort of just cheapens how much weight the concept had in the first title. Whereas XV has a more consistent feel to its setting outside of the gimmicky "events" which could never work in the narrative anyway. It seems weird how so many events from within the first game's story has little bearing on what happens by the third game. XIII may have the same cast and mythos, but I kind of feel like they are are different games that just happen to have the same cast as opposed to feeling like a collective whole that builds on each other. Overall, I think my biggest issue here and where XV does better is consistency with the world view and rules of the setting. They could have played the Lucian Kings more especially after Kingsglaive. I appreciate the fact that when XV name drops a place or person as important, it usually comes to play in the plot at some point even if it's background only. XIII has the more interesting premise but doesn't do anything with it and then goes in a decidedly different direction in the sequels from the base game. Setting: Both game kind of drop the ball here, but I feel XV does a better job of pulling together it's lore and setting into the narrative. It's release in the West could have been handled better as well. Sadly the "started as a mobile game" defense was a double edged sword as it meant no one had any expectations for it, but also meant no one was interested in it either. Financially it did terrible in comparison to the numbered entries and would have likely done worse if it didn't come with the XV demo. Are you sure that's true? Of the three, it's the only one I almost never hear talked about at all and even at time of release the reception seemed lukewarm.I would switch out "highly regarded" for "not publicly loathed by a vocal community". I was unaware that it was the most highly regarded. Then again, I've never been a fan of the "big open world " craze. XV is a big open world that just feels dull and empty. The only one I can credit from XV is Prompto, but you have to buy his DLC ofc to really feel that.Īlso, XIII is linear, but at least those straight roads you stroll across look beautiful. The XIII cast is not the best, but at least they feel like a group of characters. Even then, at times, he still managed to piss her off. Snow stayed as Snow throughout the game- he just learned to be careful of Lightning. The only one I don't remember developing much was Snow. I hate Lightning, but okay, at least she's a character. I hated the XIII cast for years, but after spending time with XV's lackluster bros, they started to shine a bit more. Prompto takes photos, Noct sleeps, Gladio embraces that ''toxic masculinity'' and Iggy says meme. I liked XV's cast at first, but after a while, they became very one-note. FFXV is a broken clock that's trying to be "fixed " with sellotape and some of its numbers are removed.on purpose.
FINAL FANTASY XIII OST ON FFXV FULL
Yes, there's FFXIII-2 and LR, but they are both big full meaty games. Yes, it's blemished, but at least they didn't try and split up characters on purpose so they could try and cough up some extra cash from us.