Once you crack the 20,000 rhythmia mark, Curtain Call interrupts whatever you’re doing in order to introduce one final medley that celebrates the history and evolution of the series.
The graphics have received the expected uptick in resolution, but Square Enix has also given both games a decent once-over, adding additional environmental detail, effects, even facial animations for the main characters.
To dwell on the debacle that is Lightning Returns’s ghastly storytelling is to deprive oneself of a rather fantastically constructed battle system.
A major key to the game’s success is Nihon Falcom’s keen understanding of how a real-time combat system should function.
It isn’t destined to reinvent the MMORPG, but rather, to suitably rearrange the hallmarks of the genre within the confines of the celebrated Final Fantasy franchise.
The Underhell atmosphere has some brilliant set pieces, from a carnivorous train that wants to make you its passengers forever, to a menagerie of angry hybrids in the middle of the Yggradasil Zoo.
Square Enix has constructed an adequate gift to itself and to its followers.
Be it that the polestar of FFXIII-2 is time travel, developing an endlessly interesting, easy to adapt manner of date-skipping was something that Square Enix had to nail down on all points
Like a particularly well-coated Dorito, a few of the mini-games’ rather ingenious design is an unexpected treat in a familiar package.
The games section on Apple’s App Store is like an open democracy on the brink of anarchy.