ff13 is a great game
The battle system is awesome,even though it takes a couple of hours to get the full thing. the first 3 or 4 hours you're simply pressing A all the time in battle
The story is pretty good and entertaining. It's true that the game is linear, but lets be honest, all ff ARE linear
. Still, by the time you get to the third disk, it stops being linear in a way and you do get an open world and a lot of sidequests and stuff to do, so technically it's linear while they're telling the story. After that, you can do whatever you want as every other ff game. Sorta
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i'd recomend it if you like japanese rpgs, it's one of the bests of this generation. The fact that some people don't like it is mostly because of it being linear, and that's because they got used to western rpgs that are more action-based. Japanese rpgs should stay like this imo