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Finally Beat Final Fantasy 13 But Was It Worth It?

Haaris Ahmed — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:43:58 +0000

Depends. If you are a Final Fantasy fuck like me than you are gonna play regardless of what any review says because its a fucking FINAL FANTASY game. Square Enix doesn’t make bad products, but they still mess with your whole being.

First off this game doesn’t get going until your about 35 hours into it. When I beat the game I was on hour 70 something, but unlike most FF games this game actually wants you to finish the story mode BEFORE finishing any side quests. Only when you bet the story do you unlock all the hunt missions/side quests/final levels to each characters stats. And unlike all the previous Final Fantasy games you only control 1 character which pissed me off until I started to get deeper in this game. The pace of this game is fast which works for the new battle system, I was hating on it HARD, but I pulled an 180 and I totally back it. What doesn’t work is the insanely linier progression in the game. This is the only Final Fantasy game where you don’t need a strategy guide, its that easy to maneuver around the universe of Final Fantasy 13.

Graphics and music are unmatched. There is a cut scene when your party returns to Cocoon and its spectacular. It was one of the BEST cut scenes I have scene in a long time, it rivals most movie action sequences. Don’t believe me, fuck that shit check this-(you can stop watching after the 8 minute marks, its an intense 8 minutes)—

Best Cut Scene in FF XIII

See I told you!

The story. Allah, Jesus, and Budda what were they thinking. It start to make sense real late in the game. Then you have the ending. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?! In true Final Fantasy form they hit you with another dumb not making any type of sense ending. Any gamer would have been pissed after logging in that many hours for an ending like that! Unlike previous Final Fantasy games (particularly FF 7, FF 8, and FF 10) you don’t care as much about the characters. Plus Final Fantasy has yet to give me a better villain than Sephiroth.

So the Final Verdict? Battles are epic, gameplay is revamped, story is pretty flamenco so I am giving this game a 3 slabber.

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Overinflated Hype Fat Princess Review

Haaris Ahmed — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:59:51 +0000

A couple of months back when the meat was young I ran a contest and let the readers of redmeatreviews.com vote on what game I should purchase for download on the PSN network. I wanted to give it a fair review so I sat and played the shit out of it. Here is review for you to munch on.

This game is getting nothing but good, no RAVE reviews. So I was excited that the readers wanted me to purchase this game. You people fucked up. This game is not fun, but it doesn’t suck either.

Lets start with what I like. This game is truly unique when it come to RTS (real time strategy) and couple that with online play on a massive scale with a cartoon graphics with loads of blood on a mature scale you can’t go wrong. You can customize you particular avatar with a host of tweeks which you unlock as you progress through the game. The concept is simple really, 2 teams, red and blue, and 1^st team to rescue their princess wins. The FAT comes from the option where you can feed the opposing princess magical cake while she sits in your dungeon. So far so awesome. There are classes that you can cycle through just by picking up a particular class hat, for example you can start off as a priest and if you see a warrior hat just pick it up and place that sucker on your dome piece and BOOM you’re a warrior. There are a bunch of cool strategies including catapults, chicken morphing spells and setting burning logs on fire Donkey Kong Style. This game sounds awesome so doesn’t it. Time for it to fall off.

This game has a couple of modes, a very short story mode, and online play. The story mode is narrated to perfection and is both funny and entertaining, plus its a great way to get acquainted with the game, but its way to short! The online play is supposed to be where it is at, well its not. There is zero lag and each map can support a total of 64 players. This is all well and good but in order to have fun and win in this game requires a high level of communication and cooperation. The reality is there are different crews that do not talk to each other, sets of newbies and people just fucking around the map. People are rarely voice chatting which is very needed when it come to this game. The lack of communication makes this a hard game to enjoy. This game still has potential and a grip of people are constantly playing it online so expect some DLC in the future. Would I recommend this game to anyone today, NOPE. This answer may change as the hype goes down and the true players that understand communication, cooperation, and war strategies stick around.

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Marathon RPG via Final Fantasy?! Its About Time

Haaris Ahmed — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:47:30 +0000

Check it

http://www.thespeedgamers.com/

Finally a marathon made for the people that matter the most, gamers. No running but it requires stamina, instead of water you do the dew, fuck oxygen tanks pass the “L” and get down with this live stream.

Thats right these cats are doin a RPG marathon for charity. And the RPG you might ask, ALL OF THE MAIN FINAL FANTASY GAMES!!!! I wonder how many phoenix downs were used? check the small break down and hit that jump

“Moving into day four of seven, The Speed Gamers (TSG) continue to play a Final Fantasy marathon for an unusual reason: charity. The guys at TSG are playing through every main Final Fantasy game, from one to twelve, over a period of seven days in hopes or raising $50,000 for ACT Today (Autism Care and Treatment). The marathon is streamed live for people to watch. ACT is a charity helping to financially support families effected by Autism. The marathon started 6pm CST, Friday, July 17th, 2009 and is going until Friday, July 24th 2009. So far they’ve raised over $26,000 (not a typo) and they’re only 89 hours in.”

Final Fantasy VII

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