games you dislike that everyone likes and vice versa

[Kosheh]

I've never been able to sit down and play a Final Fantasy either, which is strange because I actually really love JRPGs. When I played VII for about half an hour, I loved it, keep meaning to go back to that, but I've tried so many different ones and none of them hold me. X-2 I played for a while but I don't remember if I got frustrated or what was up with that. I tried to play... I think twelve, but at that point it seemed to be really action-oriented in an awkward way. I played it for a while, until I got to a scratched part in the disc, but it never captivated me enough that I wanted to go back and finish it. I tried the 2D remakes on the GBA of the first four (or six?) games and just couldn't find it interesting.

Tried XIII.

I shouldn't have.

I...actually like XIII, lol? And I like the older FFs somewhat as well. The XIII battle system is basically Persona 3's, according to friends...

The only downer was that yeah, I had to force myself to play it, and yeah, the story trudges on, but then there's a point in the game where either the game breaks or you do...because like, the battle system becomes extremely interesting. You're pretty much pidgeon-holed into your classes for half the game, and then the rest they just drop the bomb on you.
"Surprise! Be whatever you want!" and the game just...completely redeems itself. At the same time, the difficulty spikes upward, hard. :/

I don't mind FF as a game, but the stories always bug the hell out of me. They're like Really Shitty Day Simulators.
"welp, the world's ending"
"welp, the big bad boss just killed my bff"
"turns out the boss was a clone the whole time. a shitty clone killed my bff, guys, we're all shit because a synthetic man killed my bff"


"welp, turns out we're all dead too, and we have been the whole time"