What, FFXIII-2? They're compltely different games. They're styled in a kind of similar way, very high production values, recurring monsters, stuff like that - but the game play is just incomparable really. I can answer your question though - no it isn't anywhere near as good as VIII There aren't many decent RPGs on PS3 anyway though. Or on any current console. The 'traditional' console JRPG like the old FFs ie. turn based battles, dungeon crawling, grinding levels is kind of dead. That one with the really really odd but fantastic story set in the mind of Chopin whilst he was dying was alright. Whatever that was called. I'm told the best of the gen is Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii, havent played it though.
Have to agree with Sie, I really got into this last night. Love the addition of having a monster in your team and switching them out to change your paradigms. I mentioned it before, and I continue to be impressed by the difficulty. I've been caught off guard on a few occasions by how hard some of the battles have been, and has made the experience more exciting than frustrating really. Although I did recently warp back to another time zone where the battles are now very easy and slightly annoying. Having said that though I can't seem to just run away from them and do them anyway, so it's not like I don't have a choice.
I managed to get a goblin cheiftan, which is a sentinal, and have levelled it up with some really good items I had - I forget the name, but they were level 3. Each one I used gave it a HUGE boost in HP, so I now have Serah on about 1000 HP, Noel on ~1200 HP, and GOBZOR () on over 5500HP!
Cheers Hogso!
FFVII was the daddy, stupidly good game. FFVIII was also decent. So what your saying is that you cant really compare the "old" two with the new one?
Still sounds good.
And Stevo, FFVII is **** awsome! Ive never ever put as many hours into a game like i did with that one. Its brilliant mate.