I haven't had a chance to play it yet but my brother says it's his favorite JRPG to come out in a very long time. If you want oldschool JRPG goodness, 'I Am Setsuna' just dropped and it's a love-letter to Chrono Trigger with a bit of Super Mario RPG mixed in. Enough differences to appreciate they are unique titles, but enough similarities that I think people who enjoy one will enjoy the other. I think a comparison between 10 and 13 is pretty apt. If you just played the game without planning out getting max stat ups when you did gain a level, you could be woefully underpowered and have a difficult time doing anything. Say what you want about which you like best out of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim but the level up systems in MW and OBV were terrible. I think a good example at least for me is Skyrim vs. The more complex you make leveling up, the more headspace it takes up for the player to follow and it just bogs down actually playing the game. It was ultimately simple, which IMO is what leveling up in an RPG should be. OP asked for similar games, and to me, they are.

This is my own opinion though, you don't have to agree. And I find they are both quite similar to one another. My thought is that FFXIII was made, based with FFX in mind. Also, at the start of the game FFXIII picks up very slow for it's first few chapters. The crystarium is indeed one of the game's weaker points and the story is VERY complicated.

FFXIII's crystarium reflects more FFX's linear original version sphere grid. I can agree with everything you said, I did finish FFX with the expert sphere grid in my last playthrough, and It's true. Р”В°lk olarak pre-eminence tarafР”В±ndan gР“В¶nderildi: XIII-2 is indeed a decent game if you are the kind of person who likes X-2 imo, I own and like XIII-2 btw so again I do not dislike XIII just don't agree with the way you are describing it to a FFX fan looking for a title like X. The battle system is like all FF titles, once you know it you can win with your eyes closed and mostly just attack. I did almost the whole game, except certain fights that require input, using it. While auto-battle may be boring to you (and me), it is the default cursor location for a reason. Lastly on this point, very confusing does not equate to complex and imo would show a game to be poorly made if players are epected to be confused.Р”В¬rystarium is like a dumbed down standard sphere grid, play expert sphere grid and tell me early game progression goes anything like XIII in terms of role restriction, then tell me late game stats building is the same, if you can't show this to be true I guess I just showed that the crystarium is what I claimed. Lost Odyssey imo is a far better game for making you read pointless stories that give lore.

The word datalog now brings tears to my eye. That being said, I do not agree with the claim of 'more complicated' worse translation effort imho and nothing more, the lore you speak of is called an e-book that is how the game gives most of it. Just to be clear I think XIII is fine, completed it all but one achievment on 360. It has the same kind of endgame as well.Р”В«e warned though that your party gets split up much more at times, but around the middle of the game they will all come back together again.Р”Р‡FXIII has a very good battle system as well, if you really get into it and do not use auto attacks all the time (= very boring), pick your own commands it's much more fun.Р”В«ONUS: FFXIII-2 is very similar to FFX-2 if you like that one too :-) It has the same kind of levelling system (although some characters will always execute some jobs (roles) better then others in endgame) and it follows the same kind of linearity as FFX. Р”В°lk olarak Lv.99 Lightning tarafР”В±ndan gР“В¶nderildi:FFXIII is very similar to FFX, but beware that FFXIII's story is ALOT more complicated (it goes much deeper into details of the lore there and can get VERY confusing in the end - it's not as easy to pick up and follow like FFX's story is).

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