FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2

Fun game, but lotssssssssssss of bugs, be prepared to spend the first hour finding patches to fix them, then u can enjoy the rest

FF13: Big sister saves little sister. FF13-2: Little sister saves big sister. This game improves a lot upon the first game, but for every positive it brings, it also comes with a flaw. The story: Positives: I actually understood the story and could follow it. It was condensed and had a clear purpose. The concept of time traveling and space is something I find very interesting. Negatives: The concept of time traveling and space is executed very poorly. It’s shallow and lacks any real depth. You travel to 30 different locations (10 locations in reality, because the rest are just reskins with different times) and meet the same 4 characters the story revolves around. There was so much potential here. You could have done so much more with just this concept: aging, seeing loved ones pass away, history changing when you mess with the past, and so much more. Instead it’s just “travel to location Y, find item X, go to the next location, find the next item…” The map: Positives: It is no longer one long corridor. Negatives: Most boring-ass locations. None of them were fun, memorable, or had any attention to detail. The run speed is so SLOW that the maps take forever. I miss the speed hack from FFXI. Luckily there are birds you can ride in almost every map. And Cheat Engine speedhack works (I recommend value 2). Characters: Positives: Instead of 6 different playable characters (which were all badly written), you only have 2. They’re well written and tolerable. Your combat setup is saved, unlike the first game where every time the game forced a character change, your setup got ruined. Big positive. The main villain is very cool. I like what they did with the main characters from the first game. Negatives: I don’t like the main character as much as in the first game. Serah (little sister) made me miss Lightning. In this game Lightning becomes this cool, mysterious supporting character. In my opinion Lightning is one of the best FF characters just from this game alone. Also, you kill the main villain like 12 times — it becomes boring and repetitive. Like dude, I just killed you in combat and now you somehow won in the cutscene, just to pop up at a later stage in the game over and over and over again. I killed the main villain in the first hours. GUESS WHAT: HE IS THE FINAL BOSS ALSO. AND THE MIDDLE BOSS. AND THE MIDDLE MIDDLE BOSS. The DLC starts with you fighing him and I instantly uninstalled the game without finishing the DLC. Combat: Positives: You can catch monsters (by killing them) and use them in your party. Negatives: I have fallen asleep twice (only) during this playthrough. And now you have random encounters that appear at the most ANNOYING locations. It is very hard to avoid random encounters in certain maps. Overall this game is a lot better than the first one, but it still has a lot of issues. My biggest issues with the game: - Frame pacing. WTF is this performance, man. IT IS TERRIBLE even after all the community fixes. Prepare your eyes for 42 FPS gameplay. - 30 FPS (IF LUCKY) locked menus. Makes it feel so unpolished. MODS used: Nova Chrysalia (MOD LAUNCHER) 4GB patch (ESSENTIAL) ff13_fix (ESSENTIAL) Crystalium Rebalanced DLC Restoration Early DLC monster crystal (never used) Early ultimate weapon (barely used) Equipment cost 0 FFXIII-2 audio fix Fragment 10x CP HD font and GUI Monster crystal always drop Monster glow begone X360 Button prompt Some mods I wish were available: - The stupid MARSHMALLOW character who never shuts up and keeps saying KUPO. REPEATING A GIBBERISH WORD IN A CHILDISH VOICE EVERY 5 SECONDS DOES NOT MAKE THE CHARACTER CUTE. -Make the random encounter circel smaller and easier to escape.