Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets 5.4 on Gamrreview - how is that possible?

[Runa216]

Wagram said:-

Outside of perhaps Chocolina, and the two crappy songs by everyones favorite Nobuo. I don't understand the complaints. I understood the "nonsensical" story, and found it to be very enjoyable.

Which is cool, and further proves we all have our tastes.  

But my experience with the game was horrible.  Gameplay wise the entire second half was basically a joke, requiring almost no interaction and it was so dull my eyes would occasionally glaze over.  I cannot give a game like that a good score, it would be horribly dishonest.  

As for the plot, well I thought it was decent but like XIII, very poorly executed.  you shouldn't require a swath of datalogs just to understand how what you just did linked to the mythology of the world.  Also, my biggest issue (which I couldn't discuss in the review thanks to spoilers) was the enemy's motivations.  Caius's motivations and plans were so nonsensical and narrowminded that it took what could have been an engaging, time-spanning epic into a cheesy soap opera.  The characters which the story revolved took the promised epic scope and made it a high school drama.  that would have been fun if the characters were interesting (Noel was the only remotely relateable character).  

I loved how open it was, but it was so repetitive, the battles were tedious, the puzzles were more about patience than thought, the story was dwarfed from what it could have been.  I just...if I factored all that in and still gave it a good review, that would be horribly dishonest of me.