Final Fantasy 13-2 demonstrates some silly trends in RPGs nowadays

[ishiki]

FFXIII-2 is probably my 5th or 6th favorite final fantasy, falling short of some of the older ones, but I disagree with those things sort of.

I don't mind the quicktime events.

Most of them are either feral links (which have been quicktime events before FFVIII, or FFIX at the start with that play). instead of a custcene they're somewhat interactive, if you don't press anything they get squished and subsequently lol. Essentially, instead of watching, you get to press something, I think they should have made them better, but I thought it was a neat addition.

The battlesystem's imo were all more enjoyable for X,X-2,12,13,13-2. The management Job/Materia/Junction systems aren't necessarily better in my view. But, again, I'm not a fan, of necessarily traditional battle systems. I like Trails, Star Ocean, TWEWY, Resonance (despite being repetetive), Persona, the newer FF's more than older ones.

The dialogue choices I like... They did a poor job. However, there are some comedic consequences you wouldn't necessarily get. Also, I don't like that it takes you to a new screen unlike in ME. They've actually had this before where it did nothing, like FF7,FF8,FF9,FF10 though the extent was really small, and like a two word reply.

In short I like the additions but they could have been implemented better. Not that I'm all FF fans.