So much hate around, ok so there is a lot of people hating FFXIII just for the heck of hating... when you ask these persons, hey why you hate FFXIII? they always respond in the same exact way, like clones "the game suck dude, there is no exploration and the characters are retarded" then you ask why are they retarded "they are all emo and stupid not a single cool guy" did you even bother in finishing the game? "No I dropped it". Immediately this comments are invalidated. Hater gonna hate but I have played EVERY SINGLE freaking FF game and by far the most human, realistic (sort of speaking) and complex characters are in FFXIII. People hate the game just because is different, but do this experiment, change the name from FFXIII to...lets say Cocoon Adventures (XD) and people will love the game and say wooow the characters are so cool, the graphics and music are awesome and totally loved the story.
FFXIII is not my fav, but definitively is a great game so sad some fans are so close minded and btw this is not an argument the game is great whether you like it or not so don't come here saying it sucks.