20 Gaming Moments That Insulted Your Intelligence
6. The 20-Hour Hallway - Final Fantasy XIII
For all of its well-aged eye-popping visuals, Final Fantasy XIII is one of the most divisive mainline entries in the legendary RPG franchise's history, and for damn good reason.
More than 15 years after release, it's still often mockingly referred to as a "hallway simulator" due to the staggering linearity of the game's first half.
And that's no exaggeration - it takes around 20 hours of extremely on-rails gameplay for players to reach the world of Gran Pulse and things to open up, yet the journey there is so thunderously dull that even Final Fantasy die-hards might tap out before that point.
The bombardment of hallways and tutorials and lack of what most fans expect from a Final Fantasy game - compelling combat, party control, and a vibrant game world - left many baffled that Square Enix would ever consider it worthy of the series' good name.
Final Fantasy has been many things over the years, but it's never been this boring.