| Wright said:
· The world was umbalanced. Killing all humans would be a reason enough to make the God from Lightning Returns come back and see the disaster, which was Barthandeus plan all along. · Fang and Vanille sacrifice themselves as Ragnarok to save both Cocoon and Pulse. That's why they're the ones turned into crystal at the end. The rest of the party is free from the curse.
2. Gameplay. Switching to paradigms, using items and getting ready for the enemy strike. There's gameplay here to be found. You need tactics and a certain degree of strategy. You still need to Libra enemies. You can poison them, or debuff yourself. There's ultimate techniques for each character. THere's depth here. · It's up to you to choose a specialization for each character once you have the Crystaliarium. It is pretty doubtful that you have EVERYTHING maxed out by the time you hit Barthandeus. And still, the crystaliarium expands after that combat. You need gazilions of CP to max everything out. So it's there for a purpose. |
You're actually wrong at these points Wright.
Bartandalus didn't want Bhunivelze to come; he wanted the maker. The only way the maker would come, is if Etro opens the door to her. This happens briefly when someone dies. Bartandalus and Atamos wanted enough people dying at once to open up the gate long enough to get to the maker. Note this is only vaguely said once in the game. Even then they don't explain those floating crystal thingies that are needed to open the door (You see them floating around in Oerba).
Everyone got out of crystalization after 500 years, not because the party is free. They actually never explained why Fang and Vanille never turned back after that 500 years and let cocoon fall down and kill whoever was crystalized (By Fang and Vanille) on Cocoon. That part is a plot hole.
Gameplay wise; here you are technically right, except, why go through all that when 2 ravagers and a commando will get you through 90% of the battles only a second or two slower than trying? The game turns into a huge button mashin fest. Now if they actually balanced the game like in FF XIII-2 then everything would have been fine.
He was maxed out at Bartandalus, since the crystarium is locked until you finish the game. Can't say he's wrong here.
