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Final Fantasy XIII-2 purchases on Amazon net $20 gift card

by Ben Gilbert on Jan 31st 2012 6:30PM

Looking to do some time travel on the cheap? Amazon's not quite able to bend time just yet, but it can offer you a $20 credit on a brand new copy of the just-released Final Fantasy XIII-2, not to mention a digitized "mini strategy guide." We're hopeful that the strategies are bigger than the guide itself.

Should you choose to go with Amazon's deal, you could always put the $20 credit towards a flux capacitor or something that might actually facilitate time travel. Maybe hallucinogens? We're not sure if Amazon's in that racket yet, but that's another potential avenue for seeking your desire to float across the pond of time. Maybe a Doors album is a better way to go?

Via: Thrifty Nerd
Source: Amazon

Tags: amazon, cash-back, deal, deals, discount, FFXIII, Final-Fantasy-13, Final-Fantasy-XIII, microsoft, playstation, ps3, square-enix, xbox

Reader Comments (30)

With the reviews that are already out, I'll wait until its 10 bucks

@mlg rules
Exactly what I was going to say.

@mlg rules you cant trust reviews nothing beats actual hands on time with it i'm over 10 hrs in and its amazing

the majority of the reviews are judging this game based on the individual reviewrs expectations and not the game itself
case in pont check out the Kotaku review of it .

and some reviewers are are still taking out their frustration over 13 on this game and not judging it on its own

@mlg rules

A lot of the reviews I've seen are more positive though, Joystiq's is one of the lowest.

@teknobeavr
"the majority of the reviews are judging this game based on the individual reviewrs expectations"

It's a FF game, of course there's going to be expectations! The same expectations we all have.when it comes to this dying series.
It's not like FFXIII was hard to improve upon in the first place.

@teknobeavr It's a direct sequel to a previous game which was a serious letdown. I don't know how expectations wouldn't play into it.

@mywhitenoise

I wonder if the game wasn't called Final Fantasy 13-2, and 13 was a completely new JRPG IP from square, how the critical reception would be. Better? Worse? Each FF game (or game series such as this) can basically stand on their own and thus should be judged as such. When professionally reviewing the game you should throw your personal opinion and expectations out the window.

@zombieguy
That doesn't even make sense. How are you supposed to do a review while throwing your personal opinion out the window?

@zombieguy

Even as a standalone game 13 would still be a bad game.

The game is getting mostly 80's from the reputable reviewers. For me a game needs to be better than 80 to spend $60, I stopped buying average games when developers chose to start charging more, they expect me to pay more then I expect them to make better games.

That said $40 is a good price for an 80 quality game but only having 2 characters (and stupid characters at that) is a deal breaker, theyd have to be interesting like Balthier and Fran from XII if theres just 2, but they are just two stereotypical japanese metro sexuals with no originality.

. . . Almost tempting, but still no.

this is just a price match cause target is giving away 20 $ gift cards this week for any purchases of this game or , skyrim or the new sould calibur

Unless you buy the CE, then you get no credit. At least as fast as I know. Amazon has never given credits for any CEs I've purchased.

@Adorialea Also I don't even know if you can still order the CE

@Adorialea Y u talking to urself?

@kbeehaze idk?

Feels strange that Lighting is seen in the game's logo, was the main character of the last game, seems pretty important in this one, and is only accessible via DLC.

I too think that I'll wait on this a bit, at least till all the dlc is out and is included in one package.

@(Unverified)

From what I understand she appears in the game but isn't playable. You can unlock her via DLC but it's basically a monster with a lightning skin.

sigh i wish the UK amazon did offers like this.

Keep in mind that Amazon's credits that they offer are only good on things sold AND shipped by Amazon itself, which in the case of videogames is usually considerably more expensive than other sellers on there (talking brand new, not used items).

Also, the credit usually has to be usedin 30 days from the time it's issued, so the fact that your'e getting a $20 credit on something that'll run you another $5-$10 in shipping unless you buy something else to get you above that $25 free "slow as frozen molasses" shipping rate makes it more trouble than it's worth.

I'm not cynical, it's just that I dealt with this problem back in December and won't do it again.

@(Unverified)

My last three credits were good for a year from the product's ship date.

@(Unverified) Every credit I've gotten from amazon in the past two years has expired in 1 year rounded up to the nearest month (so if it shipped on 10/15/2011, the credit expires 10/31/2012). They also have credits on most new games that at least match the competition, so I've had no problem using the credit in time since I tend to buy one or two new games each quarter, it's just that it's admittedly kind of an endless cycle. :)

I've never had anything but the complete opposite experience as you.

@Jason B Maybe mine was just a crappy deal then? Mine was seriously good for 30 days and that's it.

@(Unverified) Prime. Amazon is the best.

@(Unverified) for what it's worth, I ordered this yesterday and it shipped so I got the credit today. It expires 1/31/2013

Have enough people stopped playing Skyrim to put out another RPG?

@xxMayDay31xx i have. i have already given them my "support" by getting it 3 times across all platforms... don't ask.

I pre ordered the collector's edition, and that is not elligible for this deal? Thats complete BS. Its like I paid 40$ extra instead of 20.

I still have the last release brand new and sealed. lol Insane backlog. I was an idiot for buying it release date two years ago as I can get the same game now for like 10 bucks. This one will price drop so fast. so $40 bucks isn't a great deal.

Mass Effect 3 will be the only game that gets my full $60 bucks this year.

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Posted: Jan 31st 2012 6:34PM mlg rules said

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