Well, it happened. I decided to rent Final Fantasy XIII. Let me begin by saying that it's really not that bad. There are some things that I really like about the game. That said, I do have a fair amount of complaints. So let's look at everything by category.

Story: The story is actually kind of interesting. Well, more or less. Apparently, all of the main characters about an hour into the game become cursed and become people with magic powers known as l'Cie. The game makes it very clear what's going on and what's what, so that's a positive thing. Overall: Positive.

Graphics: The game looks absolutely beautiful on the PS3. I am incredibly impressed with the visuals in this game. You can tell that the graphics were a major focus when they were making this game. To truly understand, you have to see it for yourself. Overall: Positive.

Characters: Oh boy, here we go. The main character in the story is a woman known as Lightning. Lightning is very outspoken, and really doesn't seem to value the lives of her teammates. I really don't think she cares whether or not they get owned. Lightning is a b!tch There's a guy in a trenchcoat named Snow. He's pretty cool so far, but he doesn't seem to pay any attention to what anybody is saying. He calls himself a hero, but I think he's overestimating himself. The guy with the afro, Sazh, is all right too. Now we get to Vanille. Vanille is a young girl, an AIRHEADED young girl. Vanille is an idiot and her voice kind of annoys me. Well, okay, she's an optimist. Every game needs an optimist. Now we get to the pus... er Hope. Hope is an emo and he's afraid of everything that comes within 50 feet of him. I hate him. So, personality-wise, I dislike 2/6 of the playable characters. I haven't met the last one yet. Overall: Negative (because of Hope).

Gameplay: Okay, the battle system is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too simple. You just pick a few moves and watch it go, that's it. I does remind me of FFVII, but even FFVII seems better compared to this. At least in FFVII you control all of the characters! And what happened to Limit Breaks? Huh? What the hell happened to those? The Paradigm Shift thing works fine. Having different roles gives you more ways to take on enemies, and that's always nice. The upgrade system is kind of weird. Can we just have talent points and pick new abilities. See, now I'm bringing up a good RPG when trying to talk about a mediocre one. I'm talking about World of Warcraft's levelling system. From level 10, you get talent points and pick a skill tree to go through. Why can't we do that? Overall: Meh

Final Fantasy XIII is just meh. I haven't gotten far into it, but it certainly isn't terrible. What do you guys think?