In recent days, our support centre has been flooded with queries on the availability of Final Fantasy postcards. The postcards were announced by Sony via a press release one day before the launch of the game. Which marketing department announce preorder bonus 1 day ahead of launch anyway?!?!?

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Theoretical question (Because this will never happen in real life):
What will you do if a girl thrusts her boobs at you and asks you to touch. Would you do that?

One of the most common question we face as a video game store associate is: “Is this game fun?”

As individuals with integrity, we try our best to provide some honest answers. However, when it comes to Christmas, upholding our standards gets extremely difficult. Christmas is the peak of retail and Christmas is when clueless parents come out to buy video games for their kids by the busload. An educational tour into the world of gaming at this point is really out of the question.

Sales associates, if you forget, are paid by the company to sell. I thank everyone for their trust in our little store, indeed, our recommendations are as honest you can get from a video game store. This is why we are also the most recommended store online. However, you will still be doing yourself a great favour by reading reviews online and watching trailers on youtube. Saving a few dollars but spending $50 on a crappy game is really just being penny wise, pound foolish.

Now, back to the topic..
Q: What will you do if a girl thrusts her boobs at you and asks you to touch. Would you do that?
A: Of course not la

I’ll be getting 20 minutes with the dude up top to pick his brain of all the naughty secrets that Blizzard has in store for us gamers!

So here’s the master plan: You guys email me, comment me or Facebook me the questions and I will try my best the get them answered, simple enough!

Our angle of attack? Let’s ask questions that the boring gaming magazines don’t! How’s this one for a good example:

What is Kerrigan’s Cup Size? -inspired by NGNT

Just try your best to get as creative as possible and I’ll see if there’s any loot that I can pass on to you guys after the event for participating (there’s no free lunch in this world!)

Don’t be sad if your question is not picked, they have to be vetted before I ask the main man himself. Bummer.

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This week I am proud to introduce and thank Aegis, for his passionate review of the game Final Fantasy XIII.

By Aegis

The newest installment in the Final Fantasy series has finally arrived! I am pretty sure most of the FF fanatics out there have given this game a try. Yours truly, bought the FF13 R1 edition purely due to the chance of being in the FF14 beta for PS3 and an in-game item for FF14 when it is out! As you can tell, I am pretty much a FF fanatic too.

First of all, this is not a typical FF title that we all come to be familiar with – There is no game over in FF13.

Yes, there will be a “retry” option should you happen to lose the battle. I personally like this feature loads (some might disagree here). Gone were the days of fighting straight for 3 hours, not saving your game, dying in an epic boss fight and you need to replay the WHOLE 3 hours … *Though soon you will cultivate the habits of saving every save point you come across (one of the habits of a FF gamer lol)! *

FF13 has a story line and play style straighter than any arrow. It is purely linear until much later into the game. You basically move from point A to point B, cut scene, point B to point C, cut scene, ……. Point K to Point L, MORE cut scenes …. – you get the point.

It wasn’t as huge as a shock to me since I knew about this before getting FF13. I still prefer the open exploration system though which I am pretty sure most of FF fans will agree with me on this one.

There are 6 roles in FF13 namely commando (melee), medic (healer), ravager (mage), synergist (buffer), saboteur (debuffer) and sentinel (tank). Most of the roles should be familiar to RPG fans except for sentinel. For those that haven’t play FF13, sentinel basically is a role that reduce damage on your party massively. And when I mean massively, I meant MASSIVELY! While a character is in that role, he will just defend against attacks and taunts targets to make him the primary targets. Some of you might think defending is for sissies! Attacking is more my style! Sad to burst your bubble, but some of the harder missions force you to defend or else you face a total defeat before you even realized what hit you!

Another huge change (personally, it is huge!) is that the item Ribbon we all come to love in almost every final fantasy game is no longer the same awesome item . In FF13, Ribbon now is a 30% CHANCE to resist enemy debuffs instead of 100% immunity.

You are only able to control your lead character (changeable at one point of game) while the other 2 party members will be controlled by the AI. The AI control is what I would call …… SHINGZ which will make most gamers goes BOOMZ (pun fully intended ). Imagine yourself in a huge boss battle and knowing that the boss is about to make a huge magical attack. You immediately switch one of your character roles to synergist, expecting him to cast “Shell” spell on your characters to reduce the magical damage. However, the AI somehow feels that other useless buffs are more important than “Shell”, and ONLY chooses to cast “Shell” after the huge magical attack … (/facepalm)

However, despite these flaws, if you are a FF fan, this is still one of the must-have game on your list. Being a Square Enix game, it never fails to amaze you with its stunning graphics. I highly recommend playing FF13 on a HDTV! The difference between the non HD version and the HD version is just …. worlds apart!

FF13 has one of the most engaging storyline that I have ever seen in the FF series. It also has one of the most interesting characters cast in FF series imo (a super act-cute girl that gets on your nerves, a talk-big guy that you want to punch in the face whenever he talks and a whiny boy that makes you want to stab him over and over again). However, despite their character flaws, somewhere along the way, you start to feel connected to the same very characters that you hated initially!

In conclusion, FF13 is still one of the must-have titles that every PS3 owner should try and add to their library.

I still have loads of things to write about the flaws and merits of FF13 but it will probably turn into a huge wall of text!

Contact the author of this review, Aegis, at legion_aeon@hotmail.com

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