Serah Costume, Serah Bow and Serah Hair on FFXIV please..

[Calypsx]

Yes XIII did have a good storyline but the actual gameplay was horrible.

No it wasn't unless you were going for bad ranks. Actually challenging yourself to push 5 stars was pretty fun but you could just turtle in healing paradigms and get 1 stars if you really wanted.

It wasn't the gameplay that was the problem, it was the fact that the game doesn't really punish you as much as it should for scoring lower ranks and making the battles last longer. I had a lot of fun with the gameplay, more than I did with a lot of classic FF games which lets be honest, mostly involve hitting the attack command over and over again while keeping your party up with heals. I just wish there was a bigger penalty if you made the fights last too long but XIII-2 implemented the wounded mechanic that sort of addresses this.

Even the combat was linear! You only controlled one character and the rest used AI actions you could not directly control. It was horrendous.

With how fast the game is I do not want to manually buff the entire party using Sazh in every battle using Synergist. I would rather let the AI do that thank you very much. Paradigm shifts gives me enough party control and I have plenty to worry about with my leader when it comes to some of the harder optional fights.