Quote Originally Posted by DiscipleofBob View Post
I thought the whole point of the entire plot to FFXIII was that all the main characters were completely powerless to do anything but play into the villains' hands no matter what they did, so none of them could be held responsible for anything that happened because it all went just as planned, or some nonsense like that.
Yeah, there's been a whole lot more of that in the more recent games. Gonna level with you, VII marked the point where I started growing disenchanted (no pun intended) with how convoluted the plots in the franchise were becoming.

I grew up with the early ones, which read like a D&D campaign or a particularly lovely, if occasionally dark, fairy tale. I don't mind the steampunk aspects, a lot of them are fun, but I miss stories that you don't have to re-read five times to figure out what the crap is going on and who the crap is that and what the crap does s/he want anyway?

No particular fondness for XIII, is my point.