Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Mediocre at Best

I had looked forward to this for a while. I was ecstatic when I got it, and utterly disappointed when I played it. From my perspective, it was all eye candy and little substance. Where are the sprawling cities with neutral characters? Why does my hand have to be held through so much of the game? Why so serious all the time? The characters in the final fantasy universe have never started out so dry and uninteresting as the ones in this game. I prefer the battle system of FFX over the real time battle system employed here. Everything has been streamlined, which in my opinion takes the depth and fun right out of the game. Maybe it is because I am older and some of my imagination has left me, or maybe it's because this is a dismal effort of a game. It has the name going for it and everything else about it is hollow. The developers need to return to their roots. To sum it up, FF13 is polished eye candy with mediocre story and gameplay.