REVIEW Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

From the very first minutes of the game you are completely overwhelmed with different emotions from admiration to hatred, so that after 5-6 hours you are already thinking about how to try to start again on Easy, but after 45 minutes"Easy mode" you understand that the maximum ease a little different from Normal, angrier pointing at your inconsistency and insufficient zadrotstva. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII generally likes to poke players face in the dirt, tearing apart the usual monsters or offering almost invincible in the early stages of the mini-boss as a side job.Time limit, binding tasks to the different periods of the day, a complex system of character customization and an unusual series circuit of fighting only increase the threshold of entry into the gameplay.

Events Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII place 500 years after the end of the second part of the trilogy. Lightning wakes up from sleep crystalline thanks to the dictates of the deity Bunavelze.Now, as a messenger of God, it must collect the maximum number of souls perishing in the world and transfer them into a new universe created from scratch Bunavelze.The problem is that the world will end in six days, and the deity awakened only on the thirteenth day.Therefore Lightning must collect as many souls, performing secret desires of people and use the emissions of energy - eradiyu to supply the tree of life - Yggdrasil.Rescuing five persons elected and doing 40 side quests, character by using the miracle tree will be able to postpone the destruction of the world for another seven days and be reborn into a new reality with her sister Sarah.As God's messenger Lightning can stop time in the world of the living to perform tasks during the battles move in space and use other unique abilities.


Lightning Returns - a project requiring a mandatory understanding and compliance with internal rules and most importantly - a very hard time calculation and control their actions.One minute of playing time is three seconds in the real world, so that one trip from one part of town to another can take several hours of gaming.The game makes you as often as possible preserved, explore one or another section of the city and making sure that the time spent is not just to create a new save game.Otherwise, simply download the past to preserve and save valuable time.Time - one of the main themes of the project and is not just a countdown to disaster, but also the numerous penalties and restrictions that approximate hour X.On normal difficulty, if you can not defeat the enemy and forced to flee from the battlefield - you will lost an hour of time. Moving by train to another city you will select another hour.Improperly selected route also deprive you 60 minutes.Do not have time to watch the desired one of the parts of the city - wait a day before the opening of the gate, and it does not matter that you are ready to finish the job, or in your universe hours almost no time.Characters are also in certain places at certain times, and even for that would pass the job must select only the correct time.

If you do not have time, then this is your personal problem. Moreover, the situation is artificially injected.So to perform a single task you need to get a rare elixir in a closed area during the day, but when you get close to your target local cats, Gopnik gladly take away precious cargo and youI have to stomp back for a refill potions or postpone the job the next day.In another situation, you have two hours to reach the important boss and get a bonus day, but the game throws at you specifically supercomplex opponents.Of course, you can overcome them, spending restore health potions, but then you get to your goal without the necessary support or can escape and lose an hour.


And if along the way you hit some enemies, and they catch you, the job can be considered failed, as in the case of escape of the day is over and you either stay for the night with the boss gate,deprived of the possibility to leave the territory for the next day or will be expected in the main part of the night to spend the necessary fight.Naturally, this system has counterweights - you can use the points eradii freezing time, restoring energy through the battle with the enemy, but this tactic will only work onthe later stages of the game - at the beginning of the game the monsters a bit and spend time on them for pharming energy is simply unreasonable.

Together with the concept of limited time and changed the combat system Final Fantasy. You have only three forms of the game character Lightning, you can switch between. Conventionally, this Commando, Ravager and Synergist / Saboteur.But in fact, you can rebuild the standard schemes as they wish - hung Commando magic and combat skills to the magician.Abilities now drop from monsters and hidden in special areas. They can stick to the slots of each of the classes, or they come with no possibility of changing the subject.Different sets you need to fight with the bosses and mini-bosses, who usually have one or more elemental weaknesses.

Bleeding heroine is now done in three ways: by collecting the same ability of the monsters can be combined into more powerful spells in a special shop.The character gains a bonus to health and the ability for the performance of the main and side tasks, and, finally, a large clothing gives you an immediate advantage in battle.Players who have passed the two last parts of the game, get two bonus costumes that can be of great assistance in the early stages of the development of history.Moreover, the costumes can raise as key attributes such as ATB, HP and MG (Stamina, Health and Magic), and include high-level spells needed to defeat certain types of bosses.


Sami battle like the last part of the trilogy. The main consumable item here is the analogue of Stamina - ATB.Each of the classes he is an independent and restored separately, allowing you to dynamically switch between classes, conducting uninterrupted sequence of strokes, parallel to the restoring expendedline ATB. The size of the protection and health in various different sets, so you better be substituted under enemy strikes most protected class, in between blows switching to other sets.

The main innovation of the fight began to dodge and block, which also eat ATB and minimize the damage done by the enemy.It is made units can enter enemy to a screeching halt, making it the most vulnerable to physical attacks.The same effect can be achieved by causing damage to the weak points of the enemy combination of magical and physical attacks.In addition to the Lightning could use glasses eradii to slow time in battle and causing further damage to the defeated enemy.Points eradii need to use to teleport between different locations, the resurrection of the heroine and purchase special items in the divine ark. Magical energy is recovered in the destruction of monsters and as the assignments.

Most monsters Lightning Returns borrowed from the basic trilogy with a few exceptions in the form of mini-bosses or modified varieties of enemies, friends of the first and second parts,Since the opponents are not so much, not counting the rare zones of chaos, where they originate in tens, then a special disappointment from this experience is simply impossible.



Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - It is more an adventure than RPG, where exploring the world and performing tasks placed above the battle with numerous enemies.Since opponents do not directly affect pumping heroine, it is easier to get away from the monster than to lose time on him. Jobs and clothing opposite affect on the success of Lightning during a combat operation and remain a priority, given the limited time.
The brutality of the game system with ending times can be compared to Dark Souls, where each step is necessary to calculate and save in the right places are an essential part of the gameplay. Of course, many fans of the original series may be disappointed, but on the background of the last part Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - This is the best thing that could happen to the series, if we take into account the interesting tasks, tension and a strong emphasis on research items.Although for many the high level of complexity, storyline, where love and passion are put above the fate of the world, the pressure of time with the broken clock on the availability of quests and game areas, and nottoo familiar battle system may be negative factors. But if you can understand the multi-layered cake rules the world, you can get maximum enjoyment from the game.

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