I am personally ambivalent towards the whole thing, though I do agree far more with the negative criticism (as it is more often objective, though there are a few "Because it sucks"), than I do with the subjective positive opinion of defenders.



I can "play" them, and just trot along (especially since XIII and XIII-2 I played with the guides), but they don't really leave me with any satisfaction when they're done, and there's nothing there to keep me playing at the end. Even the FF games that I've powered through (FFIV, specifically), I still think that there are things that I could just go back and do again, better this time, if it wasn't for the time it takes to play them. That has not happened with the XIII games I've played, and even then I still want to play Shaitning Returns, even though I KNOW I'll probably dislike it.