万花筒 2010-03-09&03-10 《最终幻想13》评测

There is nothing final about the Final Fantasy series. In the 13th installment¹, you'll play several characters who have been chosen by god-like being to save their floating world known as Kakoon.

The setting is inventive and vast in ways you would expect from a novel.

-I wonder what's on the hood² of that thing?

The graphics³ as you can see are astonishing and there is some fantastic art attraction going on, they compels you to move forward to see what they are going to do next.

-This is in a game?

-No. That's for damn sure.

 

But all these stuff is mired⁴ by shallow acting⁵ and dialogue that is awful.

-No matter what, we've come too far to quit now.

There are exceptions, the actors behind Lightning, the main character and Zazz do a very good job.

-Yeah, why don't you give us one reason to believe that? One reason.

Which makes the rest of the bad acting look even worse by comparison.

-I don't know what I should do.

You can start by not talking for the rest of this game.

-Not so tough now, uh?

The game is much more linear than most role playing games. In the first 20 hours you can't choose who and who is not in your party or even explore the game as your own leisure.

Combat is handled fairly well but does have a steep learning curve. Now that's sound to say that it isn't easy to win the first two battles in the game, it's just that it isn't a very intuitive system. It is strategic and just takes skill and practice. The music goes from good to the adult easy listening awful.

Final Fantasy is broken up into very clear sections, exploration, combats, cinematic. But the transitions between these moments are not as smooth as other role playing games like Dragon Age Origin or Massive Effect 2. Final Fantasy 13 is not an open world. It is a one way tunnel, a very pretty one way tunnel but a one way tunnel nonetheless.

-Shaky boy, aren't you? We'll see how long that lasts.

Final fantasy does have a strong story, a deep setting and astonishing graphics, but when you focus on a cinematic experience and have awful, melodramatic dialogue and bad acting, you'd detract from your own game.

-Only I've been stronger.

If you're a Final Fantasy fan, you'll still enjoy this game but you'll likely wish they hadn't maintained just to the combat and that they had given you more choices at the beginning. I give it seven, bad voice actresses(Then let's find a way)out of ten.

All MSNBC.com, I am Tarcan.

1 installment   

n.(instalment)分期付款；(连载的)一期

参考例句：

• I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
• He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。

2 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

3 graphics   

n.制图法，制图学；图形显示

参考例句：

• You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
• Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。

4 mired   

abbr.microreciprocal degree 迈尔德（色温单位）v.深陷( mire的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The country was mired in recession. 这个国家陷入了经济衰退的困境。
• The most brilliant leadership can be mired in detail. 最有才干的领导也会陷于拘泥琐事的困境中。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。