Top 10 Best RPGs of 2013

#6 Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

Lightning Returns is the third, and hopefully final episode of Final Fantasy XIII, a series which began as a game that was entirely all-too-cinematic with too few role-playing elements.

Lightning Returns hopes to bring the role-playing back into Final Fantasy by allowing players to fully customize Lightning, the game's protagonist, this time around through her skills, weapons, and equipment/outfits—core elements in any RPG, except for the original FF13, evidently.

The story is set hundreds of years after the events of Final Fantasy XIII-2 with players controlling a single character—Lightning—rather than a party of characters. It's something different for the Final Fantasy series, for a change.

What is it? A Final Fantasy game in which you control a single character, Lightning, and have—for the first time ever—the ability to actually customize her and control the decisions she makes.