December 7th, 2011
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The latest issue of Famitsu has hit Japanese news stands. Inside, readers found that the editors have given Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII-2 a rare perfect score…
The magazine awarded Final Fantasy XIII-2 a 40/40, something the publication doesn’t do very often — although FFXIII-2 is the third game this year to receive the score. The other two were The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Below is the list of games the mag has awarded a perfect 40/40 score. Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be available in North America for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 January 31st.
The latest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2: Battle Of ValhallaFamitsu Perfect Scores:
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998, Nintendo, for Nintendo 64)
Soul Calibur (1999, Namco, for Dreamcast)
Vagrant Story (2000, Square Co., for PlayStation)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003, Nintendo, for Nintendo GameCube)
Nintendogs (2005, Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
Final Fantasy XII (2006, Square Enix, for PlayStation 2)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Nintendo, for Wii)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008, Konami, for PlayStation 3)
428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de (2008, Sega, for Wii)
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (2009, Square Enix, for Nintendo DS)
Monster Hunter Tri (2009, Capcom, for Wii)
Bayonetta (2009, Sega, for Xbox 360)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009, Nintendo, for Wii)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010, Konami, for PlayStation Portable)
Pokémon Black and White (2010, Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011, Nintendo, for Wii)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011, Bethesda Softworks, for Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3)
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011, Square Enix, for Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3)
Source: andriasang
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As much as I love Lightning, I am extremely skeptical ahead of XIII-2 – partly because XIII was a shallow (albeit beautiful) experience, but also because Squeenix has no feel whatsoever for crafting believable or motivated antagonists any more. Last time they had that was FFVII – since then, the bad guys have just been pointless cartoon cutouts, and in some cases Squeenix stumbled so badly in this regard that I could relate more to the “bad guy” than the main cast (FFXII – Vayne).
Vayne Solidor and the Judges were definately not cut out bad guys. Vayne was a legit and one of my more believable Bad guys in the series. I did like Ultimecia but she needed more screen time. Kuja was amazing along with Garland. Sin was ok, 13 is the real first true stumble in my eyes.
FFXII had the best story with the more mature theme not anime rip off like insert here (FF7). Sephiroth going from a reasonable and admirable character to a killing/genocide inducing machine after reading some books and giving total disregard to Zack and others that he mentored were definately not believable and straight out of Anime. Now thats not necesarily a bad thing i love anime. But Sephiroth, well mainly FF7 was full of holes like a piece of swiss cheese.
Ummmmm i wait with baited breath to see how this game turns out…Square lost me with 13…. but i will wait till i see and play it before i judge.
As far as reviews are concerned, Famitsu is just the Japanese version of IGN in my eyes. Perfect or not, I’m waiting for a price drop. I’m not about to support this game, when Square Enix has a massive amount of post-released DLC planned.
I’ll check it out. It looks more promising than 13 but I’m not sold on the whole third party member being a monster. Could be interesting as long as they can pull it off and at this point I’m not so sure that SE can.
Female Cloud. Major turn off. FF13 also had some of the sh**iest gameplay in any RPG I’ve played. Not as bad as Eternal Eyes or Resonance of Fate, but bad.
Square Enix must have paid a ton to get that score.
famitsu sucks, the give every big japanese title perfect score or close….(final fantasy 13 39/40)
Totally agree. I mean Final Fantasy XIII, 39/40? Reeaallyyy??