I’ll be the first to say that the last good Final Fantasy game that was made was X, however I cannot deny that the Final Fantasy XIII series keeps opening my eyes to the superior graphics that Square Enix continues to dish out.
A few months ago, I wrote an article on Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XII’s story plot. Square Enix just revealed their opening cinematic, and I’m truly impressed. What’s rare for any game, book, or movie, is when the consumer feels like the following installments are better than the original, and I can say that’s how I feel about the FFXIII series. As stated in my previous article, I dreaded every second of playing the first one. It had potential, but then it became complicated too fast, and without the in-game journal of the plot, I’d be lost entirely. The second one was decent as well, introducing a familiar Kingdom Hearts element by allowing the ability to travel through time to fix the world order. According to Square Enix, this next installment will be the last in the series, and I almost want to say “thank God.”
However, this cinematic is extremely awesome, and raises a ton of questions for those who have played FFXIII and FFXIII-2. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there are a lot of what and why‘s going on.
What do you guys think? Will this be a great game, or will it be just another great cinematic to lure you into something sub-par?