LogFAQs > #972966690

scarletspeed7 posted...

One of my major issues with 13 is the sheer awfulness of the writing. I know I shouldn't be comparing video game scripts to books or movies, maybe, but it's just so elementarily bad. Insanely poor writing. So often, a three-minute scene won't have any lines longer than five words - like, how can you hope to make your world feel anything more than flimsy when no character possesses the ability to even spit out, like, a compound sentence? Everyone seems confused half the game, and when they aren't, we don't get insight into what they know.

You don't need long sentences to convey profound feelings. The writing is bad for other reasons (pacing, never giving you a reason to care about any characters besides Sazh, horrendous first impressions, not having an actual main character worthy of the name...).