{"id":92,"date":"2010-04-24T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-04-25T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:14:06","slug":"final-fantasy-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/2010\/04\/final-fantasy-xiii.html","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished playing Final Fantasy XIII. \u00a0I say &#8220;finished playing&#8221; because I &#8220;finished&#8221; it two weeks before. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t enjoyed the extra content in a Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy VII. \u00a0I think it helped a lot that I essentially skipped Final Fantasy XII. \u00a0I played about 4 hours, felt overwhelmed, and quit.<\/p>\n<p>I have a single tip for anyone who is getting tired of JRPGs, but would still like to get through Final Fantasy XIII:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read the Datalog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I think there is a lot of storyline lost in translation. \u00a0Reading through the story recaps every once in a while will get you back on track. \u00a0Also note that the character biographies change as the story progresses. \u00a0It&#8217;ll put an exclamation mark next to the new stuff, though. \u00a0I essentially made it my goal to make all the exclamation marks go away. \u00a0It&#8217;s felt like storyline upkeep to me, almost.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, just wanted to mention that. \u00a0I approve of the game&#8217;s responsiveness, too. \u00a0All the previous Final Fantasies had too many black screens while things loaded. \u00a0Apparently all I needed was a menu that loaded in a reasonable amount of time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished playing Final Fantasy XIII. \u00a0I say &#8220;finished playing&#8221; because I &#8220;finished&#8221; it two weeks before. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t enjoyed the extra content in a Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy VII. \u00a0I think it helped a lot that I essentially skipped Final Fantasy XII. \u00a0I played about 4 hours, felt overwhelmed, and quit. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}