Final Fantasy XIII-2

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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 167 Ratings

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  1. VidyaBum
    Jul 12, 2015
    2
    I'll start with the pluses cause it's really short:

    -Not as linear as most JRPGs which is a nice novelty -XIII's gameplay was good, here it's even better with tweaked elements and the monster catch system that adds fun without being too complex -Visuals are still nice -Serah is a boring Mary Sue but she's not detestable, Noel is nice and Caius is a great villain -That's all folks    I'll start with the pluses cause it's really short:

    -Not as linear as most JRPGs which is a nice novelty
    -XIII's gameplay was good, here it's even better with tweaked elements and the monster catch system that adds fun without being too complex
    -Visuals are still nice
    -Serah is a boring Mary Sue but she's not detestable, Noel is nice and Caius is a great villain
    -That's all folks

    Let's not dance around the problems:

    -Considering that it calls itself XIII-2, it's a complete failure as a sequel. That's not a con, but when you call yourself XIII-2, I expect that you get something that follows XIII. Themes, setting, cast, world, goals, SOMETHING. Well, here no. This sequel virtually has nothing in common with XIII.
    -Except the cameos. Instead of putting up the XIII cast again(whom I loved except for stupid arse Snow), they decide to shove the XIII people in cameos here and there. Which is stupid in every way because that means that you face a bunch of formerly important characters that barely have an impact here. They aren't important enough to the story that they need to exist here(except Lightning) but at the same time they are big enough that they take away the spotlight from the new characters. Bad design all the way. The cameos never should've existed.

    So it fails as a XIII sequel. On its own though, it's worse:

    -Plot is extremely convoluted and the principles and rules established for time travel and Yeul feel...wierd. Forced. Just bad. Especially about Yeul.
    -Story is forced as heck. Nothing about it feels like a flow, the characters don't feel like they make decisions, it feels like the plot is forcing them, or at least like you could replace the characters by any other characters in the game and they'd make the exact same decisions.

    That would be bad, but wait for the real reason I'm giving this a 2.

    -As this is a time travel plot, the game obviously is at least a little reminiscent of Chrono Trigger. I didn't think CT to be the absolute masterpiece everyone thinks it is, but it managed to do a very important thing: have its times, places and characters be memorable. Middle Ages, Future, Zeal, Prehistoria, Present, every place in CT is associable with one or several characters, has fun elements and quests to do, and is memorable.

    NOTHING in XIII-2 is memorable to me. Academia, Yaschas Massif, Bresha Ruins, Oerba, the Archylte Steppe, New Bodhum, in no timeline, at no point, under any circumstances, do I have any memorabilia from any place.

    Bodhum? There's the beach and the Snow Crew.
    Bresha? Alisha was tied with the convoluted plot.
    Oerba? Empty. Also Chocolina felt like she didn't belong.
    Archylte Steppe, Sunleth Waterscape, this and that place? Every time the same thing, I get there, I fight a few things, I get a sidequest or a main plot quest, the main plot quest is convoluted and uninteresting, the side quest is uninteresting.

    And the best example of what the game feels like is Academia.

    This is my experience:
    I land in Academia. I fight some monsters and do the local minigame.
    I get info about the convoluted, ellipse-filled, generally uninteresting plot. Info which doesn't shed any light.
    I do a boss. Then I meet Hope and he exposes more of the story to me.

    And then I leave.

    THE END. That's how every single area felt to me. Do some fights, get more plot with ellipses that don't get anywhere, then go on and do it again in the next area. When you actually meet a character, he's just another plot device with so many ellipses I'm through giving a sh*t. So what the hell am I playing this for?

    Cameos? No. Plot? Certainly not, especially when beyond the convoluted aspect, it seems to just be a really stupid plot that constantly has to ellipse itself so as to not advance, in which case the whole plot would be revealed in less than an hour. New characters? All overshadowed by the old ones in cameos. Main characters? A mary sue and one pretty cool guy do not suffice at all. Villains? You barely see Caius. Music? It honestly is meh and has a lot ot tracks I wish I didn't hear? Visuals? No way am I ever playing a game for that.

    That leaves me with gameplay alone. And just like Noel, Serah and Caius, it's not enough. I can play an RPG with really crappy gameplay, Persona 3 FES is one of my all time favs, but if the story sucks, I'm not playing for 50 hours.

    XIII-2 has a **** story, plot, unwarranted cameos, poor music, just decent main characters and a good villain. Its main appeal, the plot & time travel, is weak, convoluted and it absolutely doesn't warrant any time spent on playing this game. I'll even say that the plot being so convoluted is a complete turn-off.
    Its appeal is close to zero and it never managed to reach the most important element of any RPG: personality. Locations, people, quests, nothing, absolutely nothing in this game has personality.
    Oh and I almost forgot: the port is horrid and I get 25 FPS tops on my 4.4Ghz CPU.
    2/10 and I'm extremely glad that I didn't finish it.    … Expand
  2. jvmcnk
    Dec 18, 2014
    2
    They fu..ed this game with merging the auto and manual saves to a point of no return. Hate it. Rest is nice and worth playing if you tolerate the auto-save system.
  3. masterx1234
    Dec 16, 2014
    3
    PS: The other reviewers are not real:
    Terrible port, This game is awesome but it looks like Square Enix did not put any effort into optimizing the PC version whatsoever. i have a r9 290 and a i7 4770k abd this game can barely even do 35-40 fps on the lowest settings. not only is the framerate super low but oh god the stutter is horrendous! enev if i move the camera 2 feet the stutter is    PS: The other reviewers are not real:
    Terrible port, This game is awesome but it looks like Square Enix did not put any effort into optimizing the PC version whatsoever. i have a r9 290 and a i7 4770k abd this game can barely even do 35-40 fps on the lowest settings. not only is the framerate super low but oh god the stutter is horrendous! enev if i move the camera 2 feet the stutter is so bad it will make you want to throw up. after playing for 30 minutes i stopped, uninstalled and got a refund, thanks square enix for such a terribly optimized PC port of what could of been an epic journey of a game....    … Expand
  4. Yucuvu
    Oct 2, 2022
    0
    Avoid this horrid piece of trash game.
    It's an atrocious Pokémon clone, in the worst possible way.
    Since the gameplay is garbage and the cringe plot sucks.
    Don't waste your time with this
  5. delaware80
    Mar 10, 2021
    4
    The only FF port that does not really work on my PC because of technical problems.
    I would accept this if FF 13-2 is the latest port I have played - but all the other FF games on PC worked just fine.
  6. Sequn
    Aug 2, 2022
    1
    Retarded garbage game, that try hard to copy pokémon and fail miserably.
    This sh#t game was created with a terrible and aggressive copy and paste from all the assets of the first game.
    The only thing changed was the gameplay, unfortunately it's still sh#t. And they menage to make the already trash story even more trash, with time travel sh#t and multiple useless endings. (since the only    Retarded garbage game, that try hard to copy pokémon and fail miserably.
    This sh#t game was created with a terrible and aggressive copy and paste from all the assets of the first game.
    The only thing changed was the gameplay, unfortunately it's still sh#t. And they menage to make the already trash story even more trash, with time travel sh#t and multiple useless endings.
    (since the only true ending was selled as pay DLC)    … Expand
  7. Yased
    Jan 15, 2023
    0
    Worst "sequel" ever made for a mainline game of the franchise.
    If you think of how many recyclable elements they have used to even think to produce this sh*t, you can see that this xiii-2 is just a 90% copy and pasted xiii.
    So, the monsters design is still trash, the ost is still forgettable, and with the gameplay they have done another pitiful copy and paste failure, and the plot is even worse.
  8. Xazy
    Feb 18, 2023
    1
    A copy and paste piece of trash, from a trash game.
    Yep. Because xiii-2 just recycle 90% of everything of xiii, and build an even worse plot into a sh*t gameplay.
  9. Ologreek
    Jan 31, 2023
    0
    Trash sequel of a trash game.
    When you play this crap you can clearly see how copy and pasted assets of monsters and Locations , just to put a new ridiculous story inside, isn't enough to create a game.
    Because this xiii-2 is just as bad as xiii 1.
  10. Nivhu
    Jun 26, 2023
    0
    Basically the worst Final Fantasy sequel for the worst Final Fantasy game
    I suggest you to don't waste your time in this mess
  11. Vicu
    Aug 7, 2023
    0
    I can't even call this dogs%it a game
    It's more like a toilet paper for clean 4ss, and even just for that is hardly menage to doing that

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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. GameStar
    Feb 1, 2015
    80
    It's not perfect, but fans of JRPGs will like it if the played the first part, too.
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  2. PC Gamer
    Jan 23, 2015
    59
    A better game than XIII but with an intolerably bad story, this is a still-flawed sequel that clearly isn’t at its best on PC.
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  3. Vandal
    Dec 22, 2014
    80
    FF XIII-2 is just one of those versions without relevant upgrades, but good enough if you missed it on the original platforms. Probably, the best episode of the Lightning trilogy.
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