Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 144 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 36 out of 144

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  1. Dynel
    Feb 19, 2017
    0
    time limit. unoriginal quests. world ends regardless. worst ff ever.

    squeenix tried to squeeze more money out of player base and fans. AVOID

    You absolutely NEED a guide for the "good" ending or to find a particular enemy. Also, some enemies are invincible.
  2. Yucuvu
    Oct 2, 2022
    0
    I can give you a truly precious advice.
    Don't waste your time and your money with this terrible bad game. Because it isn't worth it.
    Unless you wish to play a "Barbie game"....
  3. Jeek
    Jan 24, 2016
    3
    Easily the worst Final Fantasy game ever made. Who thought it would be a good idea to put time limit? And the whole time thing was just a pain in the ass. Port was good for sure. The best port in XIII series, but game itself is just garbage.
  4. naznomarn
    Dec 12, 2015
    3
    I am genuinely perplexed as to how this port has gained any favourable reviews.
    As ports go, it's barely a token effort. If you've ever used a console emulator on a keyboard, you'll understand the experience.
    So far, I've had the game window open for two hours. One hour of that was working round two game breaking bugs just to get past the first cutscene. The rest of that time was    I am genuinely perplexed as to how this port has gained any favourable reviews.
    As ports go, it's barely a token effort. If you've ever used a console emulator on a keyboard, you'll understand the experience.

    So far, I've had the game window open for two hours. One hour of that was working round two game breaking bugs just to get past the first cutscene. The rest of that time was trying to find controls that were in any way usable in order to get through the first battle.

    There has been no effort put in to make the game playable on a PC. There is no mouse support, and despite mapping keys all over the keyboard and separating out menu directional controls from movement directional controls (I really wish I were kidding), they've bound jump, cancel, and one of the attack buttons to backspace, another attack button to comma, and the last one to Enter.

    So you will have to use a gamepad to play this game. But what if the gamepad isn't the gamepad they used? Well you're still out of luck, as you can't remap gamepad buttons. But "Ahah!" you might say, "I can simply remap my joypad!". "No" the game replies, as every time you select a menu item, it stops taking any inputs until you click outside of the game window and click back inside it.

    While this game can be played up to 1080p / 60fps, the graphical options are a random mishmash of options featuring just about everything you never wanted, and nothing you did. Bizarrely, there isn't an anti-aliasing option in there, yet it does have the ominously labelled "Color correction" and "Glare adjustment".

    This port can be summed up by the message displayed after hitting new game which reads "Do not turn off your Playstation 3 system..."
    So if you're thinking about buying this game, consider that advice: Leave the PS3 on, and this poor excuse for a port off.    … Expand
  5. Skillful
    Dec 25, 2015
    0
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  6. leSange
    May 24, 2023
    3
    такие классные кат сцены и такой ужасный геймплей Душность это имя этой части, только ты начал игру тебе говорят у тебя есть 7 дней на все квесты, может чуть больше. И ты как угорелый носишься по локациям, метки только на основной квест. НПС появляются в зависимости от времени дня, пропустил? Жди следующий день. Чуваки пишут, ну это уже на второе прохождение. Какое второе? Я хочу один разтакие классные кат сцены и такой ужасный геймплей Душность это имя этой части, только ты начал игру тебе говорят у тебя есть 7 дней на все квесты, может чуть больше. И ты как угорелый носишься по локациям, метки только на основной квест. НПС появляются в зависимости от времени дня, пропустил? Жди следующий день. Чуваки пишут, ну это уже на второе прохождение. Какое второе? Я хочу один раз пройти и все. Это какая то средняя игра для PS3, я не хочу в неё играть 100+ часов. И бегает она ещё так, меееедленнно, есть бег, но он так быстро кончается, вот что нельзя было сделать что бы она всегда бегала? Это что бы от мобов было сложнее убегать. Так мобы ничего не дают кроме бабла и EP, а EP мы используем на что? Прально. На CronoStasis, что бы на 2 минуты остановить время, что бы блин успеть там чё нить сделать. Какой гений так придумал, ну есть сложные игры, секиро там, тарков. Но эта игра не сложная, она тупо душная и локации так себе. Зато на ГГ 100+ одежд, сиди выбирай. А катсцены очень крутые, да… Expand
  7. delaware80
    Mar 3, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. FF 13-3

    First of all the idea of RPG and time limit does not fit. In comparison to FF 13-1 a bad story with no good cut scenes. The story of world ends ‚oh NO‘. The side quests are very boring in contrast to FF 15. So do not spend time on this game - there are pretty better ones of the Franchise.    … Expand
  8. Ozhubi
    Apr 25, 2022
    1
    A boring mess.
    With ridiculous plot and awful gameplay
    It's easily one of the worst games I've ever played
  9. Sequn
    Aug 2, 2022
    1
    The last, unfortunate, experience with the horrid "heroine" Lightning. Another sh#t game
    In this latest game the graphics suck, becoming much worse than its previous games xiii and xiii-2. The gameplay becomes totally action, based only on her and her RIDICULOUS costumes, which make her the gaming joke of the PS3 era.
    The plot is getting worse, becoming a sad pretense of an illogical    The last, unfortunate, experience with the horrid "heroine" Lightning. Another sh#t game
    In this latest game the graphics suck, becoming much worse than its previous games xiii and xiii-2. The gameplay becomes totally action, based only on her and her RIDICULOUS costumes, which make her the gaming joke of the PS3 era.
    The plot is getting worse, becoming a sad pretense of an illogical "race against time" and only suitable for an idiotic management of events.

    In short, a bad game to close a horrible forced trilogy.
    Save your money, and stay away as far as you can from this piece of crap    … Expand
  10. Yased
    Jan 15, 2023
    0
    If you too have gone through the horrible decables of the atrocious ffxiii and ffxiii-2 during the past era, then this Lightning Returns represents the horrid conclusion of a sh*tty pseudo trilogy, made with rubbish scraps. Literally...
    Gameplay actions extremely limited and soulless, costume system in a style worse than ffx-2; ridiculous maps like the usual ridiculous monsters design, 2    If you too have gone through the horrible decables of the atrocious ffxiii and ffxiii-2 during the past era, then this Lightning Returns represents the horrid conclusion of a sh*tty pseudo trilogy, made with rubbish scraps. Literally...
    Gameplay actions extremely limited and soulless, costume system in a style worse than ffx-2; ridiculous maps like the usual ridiculous monsters design, 2 flat and empty cities like a blank sheet of paper, and an even more stupid and ridiculous storyline than the 2 previous games.

    My advice?
    Stay away from this horrid crap, it's not worth your time.    … Expand
  11. imalynxcat
    Aug 17, 2023
    3
    yine bir optimizasyon faciası ve yanında kötü oyun tasarımıyla oyunu çekilmez durumda. Optimizasyon sorunlarına rağmen 13 üçlemesinin ilk iki oyununu bitirebilmiştim ama bu oyun kötü dizaynı sebebiyle oynanmayacak seviyede. süre limiti, kalitesiz görevler her şey bir arada resmen.
  12. Nivhu
    Jun 26, 2023
    0
    This trash game is far from even being a decent game
    And far away from being something of relatively even an acceptable action
    It's leave a bad taste in my mouth for ages, so avoid this

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66

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. CD-Action
    Mar 4, 2016
    60
    Lightning returns for the last time, as a PC port, and wow, Japanese do not understand computers at all. Not even mouse support!? [02/2016, p.59]
  2. Game Debate
    Mar 1, 2016
    60
    In comparison to XIII it’s certainly a stronger experience, but it’s a case of whether you can stomach yet another adventure in that vein.
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  3. Everyeye.it
    Jan 11, 2016
    68
    Quotation forthcoming.
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