bah! against my better judgement, I picked up the Final Fantasy XIII games, all three of them. I read horrible things, they all looked horrible, I hate the direction the games went at 10 and after, but I did it anyway. I guess the 12 year-old in me is still attached to FF1-3 so much....and 7.
Anyhoo, this an awful game. just terrible. Well, for FF. but still, I'm enjoying at least, despite the agonizingly terrible story and characters that I want to punch in the face constantly.
but here's the real problem: game just stops. dead. I read all the horror stories about this port with terrible FPS and cutscene freezes, but I have none of that. After ~10 hours, I get to chapter 5, where it's just the useless child jerk and the main lady character. After every battle in this place (tree world), the game just stops when a battle ends. They put their weapons away, no music or end battle stats. It just freezes on whatever toon ended the battle and nothing. sits there forever. Disabled cloud saves and worked back from a non-corrupted save, assuming that was it, but no dice. The game just stops dead. I tried window mode and dropping the resolution. Nothing. Every battle, running through all enemy groups, seems to do this. No idea what is going on. This specific problem of game locking on end-of-battle doesn't seem to exist on the internet, and I'm not sure what it is a function of--failure to load the end battle card, memory issue somewhere? I don't know, it just suddenly started happening in this one map: the trees...whitewood somesomething.