Overall Rating: Seriously boring, way too linear and overall pretty garbage
Numbers Rating: 3

Play Time: longer than the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned

Genre: shit? I can't call it an rpg because there's no like role-playing, and it's not really an adventure because there's no choice and consequence... I guess I'd call it a... rail-masher

So you've heard it's linear. It is. Everything about this game is 100% linear. Not always a bad thing, I guess, but holy shit at least make it fun. I guess I'm just not able to appreciate japanese storytelling (generally speaking), I never have liked anime (generally speaking) , that is to say that I'm not the kind of dude that's like "OH A NEW ANIME! I HAVE HEARD OF THIS AND HAVE BEEN ANTICIPATING IT's ARRIVAL SO THAT I CAN WATCH IT AND INDULGE IN IT'S CULTURE", but like if you asked me 'hey have you ever heard of evangalion? I'd be like 'Yes, but I will mis-spell it and not be able to name a single character or tell you anything about it other than I think it has boobies, and some dude I know was once into the series'

That being said, I still feel the need to repeat what a piece of shit game this really is. The graphics are nice, and I guess the characters are cool, I'll give it that much. But when I'm playing a game, I'd really appreciate the value of feeling like I am fucking playing a fucking game, do you understand this? The majority of the 20ish hours that I put into Final Fantasy xii (13) were spent pretty much repeatedly asking myself 'why did this game need me to play it? It's getting along fine on it's own.' I literally would sit there and hold up on the joystick, to run forward in the endless straight hallways that are the environment, then mash one button until the monsters died, that's if I wasn't able to totally skip the fight, I mean.

There just wasn't much to it. Even the leveling is 100% linear, don't argue with me on this fanboys, pay the f attention to what you're doing! Sure you can choose which of your 'roles' you want to spend points in, but 99% of the roles all give you the same exact shit, minus, of course, different spells, but by the time you can actually learn more spells, you've gotten enough experience or sp or whatever to buy all the abilities anyway, so what the fuck ever. You just move the little light thing in one linear direction until you hear a ding or a boop, then move on to follow more straight fucking hallways and try to avoid stupid demon pokemon looking things.

 Also you can't choose which characters to play. I've heard you can, sortof, when you're like 40 hours in, but holy shit 40 hours in and I would have to make a windex and crystal meth tonic just to keep interested.

Also you only control one character at a time. Granted that within the combat system, this makes sense as it's pretty fast-paced, but it still would be a little less redundant, but they don't let you choose which character you get to control. So it's just one more thing to be fucking silly about.

Also, I hate the little kid characters, I forget their names, vanilla barftongue and shithead crybaby feather-hair, ill look it up - just a sec... Oh, Vanille and Hope.... mo' like vanilla barftongue and shithead crybaby feather-hair... Yeah they suck. That stupid fucking Hope character is the biggest douche I've seen in any story in a long time. I think what I hate about him the most is how he reminds me of all the god damned emo little boys running around the mall talking they're high and looking like they'd start crying if their hair got wet... Vanille was like a 5 foot parasite that you might keep around just because she's sexy, but you know every minute she's near, your brain is working in overtime trying to kill itself off..

I dunno, all the characters were pretty stupid, I wouldn't personally like any of them, except maybe Snow, but that would stop once I met his 12 year old girlfriend and realized what kinda dude he really was. Goodness Gracious, Snow, all that dedication spent on a girl whose adult teeth are still growing in. Effing Japanese, man...

I give up. The game sucked.