VGChartz Ranking Game - Final Fantasy XIII-2

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I have just platinumed the game so everything is still fresh in my mind!

Story – The story in FFXIII was really confusing but you could tell they did try to create an
interesting world and engaging events. The same can be said for FFXIII-2 but you can bold
confusing in this one. What’s a Yeul anyway? The most interesting stories were the ones
associated with the Paradox Endings. Those are nice and you only get to see them once you’ve
completed the main story.

Characters – Noel and Serah are actually great characters when compared to most characters
from JRPG games. Perhaps too normal. I think that’s why they figured they should throw Mog in
the mix. It wouldn’t be Final Fantasy without some cheesiness!

Gameplay – I don’t see FFXIII-2’s gameplay as an improvement over FFXIII’s. I’m not a fan of the
constant same 2 party members and the alternate monster partner. I had only two different
monsters throughout the whole game because the game never compelled me to bother
gathering monster materials to level one up. I feel like it’s wasted potential because there are so
many monsters to tame and they all have a special attack (that was really underpowered by the
way) that I would have loved to see. I thought the gameplay really shined in the Lightning DLC
though where it’s a 1vs1 fight and where changing paradigms matters.

Music – Good enough!

Graphics – About the same as FFXIII and sometimes very impressive.

Content – The main story is shorter than FFXIII’s but the post-play content is much more
extensive. Platinuming the game was probably more fun than going through the main story.
Chocobo Racing could have been more fun and the slot machines were stolen from hell I’m sure.

Overall – There are no other JRPG series out there with so much production value and despite all its flaws, I still loved it and I can't wait for Lightning Returns!

8.7/10