What did you all think of lightning returns ffxiii demo?

The cut scenes look awesome. The game play seems fluid. The changing outfits on the fly is odd since your changing outfits in the middle of battle; however, I understand it's a class change in reality like the other outfit change ff games. I really didn't understand the BLM outfit as far as cosmetic looks. I did like how there is actual named classes or w/e they are in that game.

While the game didn't really fill my cup of tea personally, I can tell it is a pretty good game. I think I like slower gameplay and of course ffxiv! What did you all think about it?

DL-ing now. Honestly was not a fan of FFXIII. Skipped -2 but may as well give this one a look. Will update later.

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*playing the demo*
(in-game dialog starts)
*spits coffee out*
0_o
who the hell wrote the story to this?!
*continues to play demo*
"dear god, it's Hope..."
/headdesk
*says a prayer for FFXV*

Game does look pretty ^_^b
Combat is... eh. Think FFX-2 mixed with a fighting game's controls (dedicated attack buttons).
Instead of swapping out party members when they run out of "AP", you change cloths (which look great btw. def check out the dragoon) and some way that makes you regain MP/AP o_O

Going old school as you do not regain health in-between fights (I see we just lost half the players).

Brief demo but it just didn't FEEL like a Final Fantasy game =/
Nostalgic throwbacks are in there but... dang SE. What happened?!

I liked the first one and skipped part 2 as well. I forgot why I skipped it though.

I'm one of the few that actually liked the first one, but wasn't a big fan of the second one. The demo felt fun though, except I felt ATB starved at times. I'm not sure if I was just doing it wrong or what, but I'll either figure it out or maybe later in the game we'll get abilities and gear that will increase ATB and allow us to button mash even more?

Cons:
-Only 4 actions per role/outfit, one of them always being guard.
-Only one character.
-Battle involves moving around a small area in X,Y directions very slowly - feels a bit half-assed for making direction/location of attacks matter in certain boss fights

Pros:
-Playing dress-up.
-FFXV is coming?


My stance: I liked 13 the most, 13-2 was a downgrade, and this I look forward to the least.
That said I will buy it and play it and 100% etc.

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Originally Posted by EdenArchangel

Cons:
-Only 4 actions per role/outfit, one of them always being guard.
-Only one character.
-Battle involves moving around a small area in X,Y directions very slowly - feels a bit half-assed for making direction/location of attacks matter in certain boss fights

Pros:
-Playing dress-up.
-FFXV is coming?


My stance: I liked 13 the most, 13-2 was a downgrade, and this I look forward to the least.
That said I will buy it and play it and 100% etc.

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Yeah I liked 13-1 more... and 13-2 meh that didnt even exist to me. Serah and Noel didnt do nothing except screw things up. Worst ending ever.

About the demo... Well I guess its just a demo so you cant expand your abilities. probably in teh full version you can get more abilities per job and will be able to custom and probably even take off guard. Although not sure if its a good idea to take of guard, since it seems like a solo Lightning game you would need it and also help you stagger enemies better attacking after a guard.

About the Actions... I guess like in all other 13 games you will be able to add more bars, usually games starts with 3-4 actions and end up with like 6.

Pros:

-Battle system is fun

Cons:

- The story is insultingly bad. Things literally happen at random and nothing makes any sense.

- The entire game is a humongous retcon of itself. But seeing as FFXIII's story made no sense anyway, the only thing it has left to destroy are its characters.

- Lightning is not lightning. She's some chick who puts on outfits, make awkward action poses and tries to be an action hero.


tl;dr

FFXIII-3 takes the cast of FFXIII and transforms itself into a bad Manga. Like, a really bad manga. I'm talking Kingdom Hearts meets Naruto here. The battles are alright though.

x was the last ff single player game all the rest that came after it becides 11 and 14 were just meh

12 was godlike, and I will accept no less than good comments about it.

Try me if you wish, mortal

I quite liked it. Still dissapointed we won't have full party control in a XIII game though, personally feel that's the weakest point of the series.

The flavor of this one is more MMO-like:

-single character
-real-time combat
-one-button one ability (no more paradigm)
-multiple classes
-Gear has specific graphics
-real time world events

I personally like MMOs so I'm pretty sure I will enjoy the game, BUT there are a lot of FF fans who will probably not like it.

I played it. I liked it, but I'm fairly easy to please so meh. 13-1 Was good cause it had gunblades that actually shot stuff. Only thing I liked about 13-2 believe or not, was that Noel dual-wielded. 13-3 does look interesting, I'll give it that.

I'm actually a pretty big fan of Lightning and the XIII saga (despite the criticism by a lot). I loved 13's beautiful environments and eidolons, wasn't really a huge fan of 13-2 (I disliked the "recycled" models of the npcs and environments), and I was very excited while playing the LR demo. I'm glad to be controlling Lightning again, and think the game is on the right track this time in finishing the series on a positive note. They've introduced more RPG elements that were lacking in the previous games (and that lots of people criticized the first games on, such as shops and open-world exploration), and I think that will greatly impact the experience in a good way. The costumes for me are kind of iffy since Lightning's personality doesn't quite match a lot of the outfits she can wear in the game, but the customization features are pretty detailed and very cool in their own respect.

The main thing i hated about FFXIII was the introduction of endless melodrama. Final Fantasy 8 and 10 were almost exclusively emotional love stories, but they wern't written so badly. FFXIII-2 was enjoyable but only because Square Enix fooled me. I was under the impression that they would release the game for $60 and continue to add ACTUAL content to the game via DLC, but instead all I got was a game that rehashed itself, a story that made no attempts to stay coherent, and a cliffhanger worthy of death threats. Oh, and 2 DLC "chapters" I completed in a day and never played again.


And so it stands that for the first time in my life, the first time EVER, I am so thoroughly put-off by XIII and XIII-2 that i'm not even giving this one the benefit of the doubt. I refuse to pay Square Enix to continue this insulting series killing spree.


No matter how many small good things can be said about XIII: Lightning Returns, nothing will make me forget the fact that if this were 14-15 years ago, under the name "Squaresoft", XIII:LR would have been a start-to-finish standalone IP that had nothing to do with Final Fantasy. And i'd probably love it.

i kinda liked the demo but I will still skip this game.

It's really sad to see SE stoop to such low, base and very cliche tactics to save a character/story. It happens a lot in "Japanese" niche games where you get to dress up the main characters. NiS does a lot of these games i.e Hyper Dimension Neptunia is one that comes to mind and the only saving grace for these games is the diversity in clothes. SE could have used that money to make FFXIV a better game rather than try to make up for the fail trilogy known as FFXIII.

*Note; when I say Japanese I mean games which are so obscure to the culture outside Japan that it rarely ever gets imported, it also falls under a "special" category but I'll leave it to your imaginations ;)

I thought we were done with the days of swapping discs to continue a game. The series should be called FFXIII disc 2 and FFXIII disc 3 instead of FFXIII-2 and FFXIII-3.