At 1:40 he shoulda been like "Bickity bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show."

It's odd that Mary compared the new hub area to Majula from DS2. It resembles the Nexus from Demon's Souls more than anything else.

@darkelf83 I have it on PC. It looks/plays great; no problems whatsoever. It's absolutely filling my craving for a great PC RPG.

I've heard there are issues with mouse/keyboard controls, but I use a gamepad (PS3 controller) which works fine. My only complaint is the stripped-down Tactics (DA:O did it so well, why fix what isn't broken?) but I'm hoping they can address this with a patch down the road.

Kudos to Chris Watters and the rest of the GS staff for fighting against score inflation. I don't care about Halo Collection, and I"m sure plenty of people are having fun with the game as it is, but a game broken upon release should be reviewed as such. When critics have high standards, the gaming community wins.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find a bubble shield before I get torn apart by angry fanboys.

@Monsterkillah I like the K-VO is fighting grade-inflation. As long as critics hold games up to the highest standards, the gaming community wins.

For all the technological advancement FF games have pioneered over the years, they've become stale in their character development. We've all seen these people before – the twerpy blonde kid (Zell, Tidus, Vaan, Hope); the strong but silently brooding guy (Squall, Auron, Lightning); the good-natured surrogate older sibling (Quistis, Wakka, Snow); the peppy teenage girl (Selphie, Rikku, Penelo, Vanille); and the love interest/damsel in distress (Rinoa, Yuna, Serah). There are plenty more I could list, but you get the idea.

Don't get me wrong – I love many installments in the FF series, and some of the characters listed above I still find endearing. But for all the complex environments, plots and battle systems, the character interactions are starting to seem by-the-numbers. Oh, the blonde kid finds his inner strength when he needs it most? The emotionless warrior has a heart after all? The whimsical pigtailed girl reminds us of the importance of friendship during the most dire of crises? Been there, done that ad nauseum.

I don't know if it's Japanese culture that breeds these tropes or if it's a staple of the franchise that can't be shaken, but I'm hoping for a new formula this time around.

(For the record, my personal dream team would be Seifer, Balthier, Basch, Ashe, Fang, Barret and Tifa).

I don't have much interest in this game, but I'm always hungry to sink my teeth into a K-VO review. Thoughtful, well-written, and as objective as possible. Kudos to the GS staff for continuing to fight "score" inflation (a meaningless yet overvalued metric). Sure, you'll get whiners complaining that the score is too low, but pay them no mind – when critics have high standards, the gaming community wins.

Does anyone actually read reviews anymore, or do they just look at the score and go straight to the comments and complain? This was one of the most entertaining articles I've seen on Gamespot in a long time, and I'm no fan of Harry Potter or political correctness. The author made it apparent that this is an absurd, clunky, patronizing game while conveying his points in an original and thought-provoking manner. I hope to see more writing like this that resembles literature, rather than the myriad of cut-and-paste nonsense that plagues every news site these days.

Cheers to you, Nick Capozzoli; unfortunately you cater to an audience that would rather spend their time doing something with a traffic cone at the behest of an exasperated parent.

I don't care about the game at all, but I really enjoyed K-VO's Simpsons reference... and Mary Kish should narrate every review on GS.

One of my favorite games of all time is Silent Hill 2. I'd love to get an HD remake of that.

(No, we're not considering fumbling attempts to convert obsolete beta code as a remake.)