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United States937 Posts
sorry i'm late to the party! i got my hands on this game about 5 days ago and just beat the main story today. just like all testuya nomura's works, the music is honestly the most beautiful thing i've heard. the producers and musicians are really living bethovan's. aside from that appraisal, i thought the game rather short. the linearity of it disappeared but they literally took the idea off of kingdom hearts. instead of different worlds its just different timelines but i also believe that's the thing that makes this game so unique and makes the plot oh so richer. the rest below are my thoughts about the game and spoilers. incoming lengthy rant!
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my only complaint is that how do you leave it unfinished and expect to have DLC's tell the rest of the tale? i felt really sad after beating the game only to have that as an ending. for such a beautiful game about hope, the future, and a better tomorrow, that's honestly the worst thing that could happen when the hero's are played for fools and everything they did was all calculated in caius's plans. kinda feel like this was a game of thrones scene.
with that said i think 13-3 is a good possibility even though there are DLC's. the story has so much unfinished questions and it's honestly such a beautiful story that it would be a shame to end it this way. what this one lacked is character adjustments. you only play as serah and noel which is kinda well wack. which i think a 13-3 would make the most sense by having character rotations. snows involvement in this game was just retarded and there's so much left unanswered about his role which pretty much leads me to believe is also another good factor for 13-3. snow being branded again shows there's another deity outside of the god of etros and that his involvement is much bigger then what's going on right now and probably doesn't end at just finding lightning.
if anyone has watched the 2 secret endings, which i'm not sure is related to the main plotline or not but i believe so, 13-3 would make the most sense to start off from that point of a fucked up time-line. what i also don't comprehend is the fact, if all it took was a stab to caius's heart to begin with, why didn't he do it himself? he technically did in the main ending....
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I've been enjoying this more than FF13, though I do have some complaints. Chocobo races and the casino in general were pretty disappointing, I was expecting something like Gold Saucer but this did not deliver. Also combat difficulty actually feels much easier than FF13, could be that I just built my characters and monsters too well, loving my high level behemoth. Might end up skipping all the DLC as well, especially as I have the Asia version which makes it slightly more troublesome to get afaik.
I don't think music is that bad par some annoying tunes and some that are just plain out of place like that shout metal whatever you call it in couple scenarios.
Currently at the point where I have to collect the Graviton Cores and got slightly bored.
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United States937 Posts
yeah it's definitely alot easier and in general as you see the progression of the series, leveling is much easier as well. i skipped the casino entirely and basically could afford all the artefacts from serendepity by buying coins with gil alone from training lmfao.
achelyte steppe is probably the best place to farm CP + GIL. if you can kill one of the side mission bosses in that place you're pretty much guaranteed to win the entire game because you earn a whooping 30,000 CP.
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On February 01 2012 15:17 ShadowDrgn wrote:For anyone that likes to min/max and do all the crazy stuff in single player RPGs, I'll plug my friend's youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/arthellinus . He worked on the official FF XIII-2 strategy guide so he's had the game for months and will be uploading tons of videos in the next few days. He made lots of FF XIII videos and is also responsible for those ridiculously good Persona 3 and 4 databases on GameFAQs. Also, if you never buy official strategy guides because they're useless and written by idiots, this one might be worth looking at.
Before I bought the game I bookmarked this, it was full of very interesting movies, and now that I have the game all those movies are gone TT. Do someone know where they are ?
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Theres a tune in this game which I can't find for the life of me anywhere. + Show Spoiler +In the Archylte Steppe when you make the weather stormy (the weather to fight yomi) what is the music in the background!
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Looks all right for at least a single play-through. That's good enough for me. Also, weren't they all able to use magic because of those funky symbols?
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On March 14 2012 23:58 dUTtrOACh wrote:
Looks all right for at least a single play-through. That's good enough for me. Also, weren't they all able to use magic because of those funky symbols?
Not everyone is a l-cie (Funky symbol people)
But everyone can use magic 
I dunno, as hyped as i was for this game i didnt enjoy it as much or get that final fantasy feeling from it. (I did with 13, i loved its story and the graphics prolly helped too.) First time ive felt let down from an FF game, yes, i even enjoyed playing X-2, as shitty as it was. (1000 words truely epic song tho.)
That being said, it was still good.
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Played this a bit last weekend. I found that I want fully automated combat as an option (I don't have to click twice to attack, yet if I hit a button it switches to normal mode) and the option to turn off quick time events. Oh and an option to lower the music volume.
My experience was basically, load into combat, 3s. Kill enemies, 4s, wait for end screen 2 s, hit forward twice, 1s. Meaning I spent more time loading into and out of combat than in it for a decent portion of the time spent playing. That would be ok if I didn't have to hit buttons to get through it, basically giving me a little time to drink something or scratch my nose without losing anything in play time. ^^
Quick time events is the worst part though. Nice I finally get the enemy down, release the controller and close my eyes while waiting for the cut scene to start or the end battle screen to come up. Bam, missed QTE.
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Finished ME3 a couple of days ago, I thought it's impossible to have an ending as bad or even close to ME3's ending, FFXIII-2's ending proved me wrong. On the good side, the game wasn't that good so the bad ending didn't offend me as much.
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^Playing through the mass effect series for the first time right now. All I ever hear about me3 is how bad the ending is. Is it really that bad?
On topic, I think I'll stick to my earlier FF for now until square releases a worthy sequel.
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On June 30 2012 00:32 polyphonyEX wrote:
^Playing through the mass effect series for the first time right now. All I ever hear about me3 is how bad the ending is. Is it really that bad?
It is! But we were shocked, because everything from beggining of ME1 to just-before-ending ME3 was pure awesomnes;) So play it, enjoy it, and just be aware that ending will be little disapointment;P
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