Whoever says that this game is better than ANY numbered title (baring X-2) is insane. When this game came out it wasnt even a game. A lot of people didnt like 13 and thats fine but it did everything that a standard modern game should. the combat system worked, there was a story, it was voice acted (although not very well at points) and it had other things besides the main story for you to do.

This game had NONE of those things at release. There was a grand total of about 1 page of actual dialogue, no sidequests, stats meant nothing (and still dont seem to do much), no convenient method of travel after ur anima was gone (which took like 2 days to run out), and the combat system was almost non existent (spam 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1).

So my point is that 13 or 12 or whatever game u wanna compare it to might not have been your favorite, but when it was released it was a complete game unlike this one.