For some reason, I always had trouble wrapping my head around the combat, but man, what a world to live in for a while. I really like all these characters, and the insane nonsense of the story really won me over. To call this bad is just odd to me, as it isn't doing anything other Final Fantasy games don't have worse examples of. I think it's quite good even! Now onto XIII-2, which from what I've heard, will be much more my style.