The worst thing about FFXIII wasn't the gameplay, LOL. It was the annoying, sappy, shmaltzy, sentimental drivel that they used as a basis for the story, not to mention the ridiculous final boss fight that made absolutely no sense.

And how many times can Final Fantasy characters use the expression "I was just running away" before it gets really repetetive and annoying.

Every single game there always has to be one tortured emo kid that is "just running away" and ends up facing his problems. It's retarded. It was okay when Shinji Ikari did it in Evangelion, but now that every single character has the same sob story, I'm sorry, but nobody cares anymore.

Lightning was an interesting character, hiding behind her macho facade, but did she have to spell it out for us?

The whole thing was just so laboured and contrived and it annoyed me to death. Like it actually killed me.