

Instead she faces a new foe, a purple haired man (to rival her pink) who expresses a grim wish for destruction, clashing swords on the outskirts of the universe.Ĭinematic action sequences offer intense and potentially branching outcomes in a handful of the game's more epic encounters.Īwakened by visions of this supernatural confrontation, Serah - Lightning’s younger sister and Snow’s fiancé, should players recall - finds her quiet coastal village suddenly under siege by monsters from another time period. It would seem her ending was not the happy one everyone had witnessed before the credits rolled. But she’s a different Lightning, a woman now adorned with plate armor, a shield, and a cloak of feathers draping at her side – a divine soldier of sorts. A spectacular sequence of CGI and admirably done interactive action scenes – tightly woven around composer Masashi Hamauzu’s yearning violin and orchestra – reacquaints players with Lightning, the heroine of their previous adventure.

Instead of Final Fantasy X-2’s summoner turned pop star, however, Final Fantasy XIII-2 sings to a more serious opening tune. The second attempt to append the ‘-2’ to a Final Fantasy title launches in a fashion even more ridiculous than what fans may remember of Square’s first stab at the idea. "Why didn’t Square just make Lightning a pop singer and call it a day?" The World: LET ME EXPLORE! I loved FFX, but at least it tried to let me get to know Spira.Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PlayStation 3) review FFX-2 has by far the best battle system I’ve seen in an FF and it was attached to a horrible game. I loved the FFXIII battle system, but it is something I DO NOT want to see repeated. I shouldn’t be building weapons, doing side quests, and find new ways to strengthen my characters that late in the game. That’s really what this story felt like… an after thought.īattle System: This needs to be explored early in the game, not 40 hours later. We never found out anything about that, it was never explored, it was just shot out there as an after thought. I think the worst point was the scene with Cids Vision or dream or what ever. Through out the course of the game you didn’t have a real sense of the characters in your party, their histories, their relationships, and were given very little reason to care about the people of the worlds of Cocoon or Pulse. Story: FFXIII’s story wasn’t that great and the world not really worth returning too. this idea is so bad I have to post twice:
