Best video game OST of all time. I will fight you.
Better gameplay loop than XIII, I like the remixed OST. Serah is a canonically dumb character. The story is absolutely bonkers.
Tão bom quanto o anterior, único problema é que a história peca um pouco, principalmente por terminar em cliffhanger, de resto... é muito bom e até melhor que o primeiro em alguns aspectos
Play this with low expectation and love it a lot more than the mainline XIII. But not a fan of time traveller plot.
The only thing I really remember from this game, is grabbing that Moogle at the start of the game, and throwing it away for an hour straight.
Good times. :')
Good times. :')
悪い
Ok it's a bit better but I was expecting FFXIV. Wonder who's gonna be the protagonist of that one?
I prefer it over the first, the soundtrack is absolutely amazing
This review contains spoilers
A fair followup to its ambitious (and imo unfairly treated) predecessor. Serah and Noel don't quite have the same nuance that Lightning displayed in XIII, but they serve really well as deuteragonists getting to know each other across the journey, knowing when to hold back and when to probe on complex emotional issues. Final Fantasy staples are all here: Great music, story, combat, characters. The aggressive ATB combat didn't wow me as much as it did a decade ago (or maybe the balance was just different idk), but I enjoyed the metagame of taming monsters. Overworld gameplay was pretty decent too. The worlds are all large, and NPCs having so much dialogue, dynamically moving around the town, responding to magic and Mog etc helps to make them feel alive in a way. But Always appreciate that FF has actual character romance, which is especially felt in the XIII trilogy. Look at Serah! She's a married girl! Despite the main storyline being pretty short by FF standards, Serah's death in the shock ending does hit. I suppose they could only do such a thing because they were already planning to extend XIII into a trilogy, but man does that sudden twist of Chaos erupting and the bells ringing out as it pans over to Lightning's crystal leave an impact. Caius' presentation was fantastic too. While having nowhere near the screentime or complexity, his visual direction calls to mind Malos, which can only be praise. In fact, since I have lineage brainrot active rn, this game has given me a furthered appreciation of the FFXIII project as being what would happen if you took FFVII (Lightning = Cloud, Caius = Sephiroth), Chrono Trigger (time travel), Xenogears (urban city considered ruins, in conjunction with other Xeno parallels), Xenosaga (equivalent city design in Miltia & Academia), Xenoblade 1 (Yeul's visions and changing the future) & even Xenoblade 2 (Caius & Malos as dark purple Sephiroth remnants with similar swords & motivations) despite the saga predating it, Shin Megami Tensei (Lightning Returns' apocalyptic, biblical tone) and smushed em all together into a single aesthetic. Unsure if I can sustain a piece on that enough to be worth publishing, but it's food for thought.
Peak RPG, great gameplay with a great story, Noel best protag 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
I did like the ending and Noel was a pretty cool character, but most of the story was just mindblowingly bad. Soundtrack was amazing though!