Even the character called Cid didn’t ring true with his predecessors.Īs Serah and Noel travel through time and fix these paradoxes, they encounter many of the main cast from Final Fantasy XIII. The recurring character names Biggs & Wedge – a reference to Star Wars of all things – were relegated to a name of a shop. Sure, it featured chocobos, but the recurring element of crystals was used in a negative connotation.
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The Final Fantasy series has always featured recurring elements, but another criticism thrown at Final Fantasy XIII was the lack of them. This is typically a bow and arrow, but they aren’t limited to just this. From recording a player’s data as a save point to a playable party member, in Final Fantasy XIII-2 Mog can trans-‘mog’-rify themselves into Serah’s weapon of choice. These cute white bipedal mole looking things have had many a job in the Final Fantasy series. Moogles have been a staple of Final Fantasy since the very beginning almost. Serah had a moogle companion known as Mog. Here, Serah and Noel were only occasionally joined by a third character, and it wasn’t for long. The party system in the first game allowed for some interesting paradigms to create whilst levelling them up. Part of the intricacies were lost by moving away from a roster of six down to just two. One area most would agree that Final Fantasy XIII shone through was in the combat system, so it was barely touched for the sequel. The main issue being these words all sound similar and in terms of the lore are all closely related to each other. In all honesty, I am a massive advocate for Final Fantasy XIII – and the trilogy as a whole – but it took me two playthroughs to establish what these terms were referring to. Terms such as l’Cie, fal’Cie and Cie’th are used much less frequently in Final Fantasy XIII-2. It also removed a lot of the made-up words present in the first game. Clearly a response to the main criticism of Final Fantasy XIII being too linear for the first twenty hours, here now is a game with multiple endings depending on which way you decide to travel through time. Instantly though, you get the feeling that Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a much more open game than its predecessor. These aren’t the canon endings – there is only one true ending to Final Fantasy XIII-2 – but try to explain that things may not go as you plan should you tamper with time too much.
In fact, visiting them in different orders can produce some unexpected endings, known as Paradox endings. Paradoxes are visited through a device called the Historia Crux, and don’t necessarily need to be visited in a particular order. In an effort to restore Lightning to their world and save Noel’s future, this duo travel through time and close these paradoxes. Noel tells her he has met Lightning way in the future, but her travelling to the world of Valhalla has caused time paradoxes to rip open. Serah and Noel meet in 3AF, in a world where only Serah remembers her sister and all the hard work she did to save the world. The sequels do not really cater for newcomers to jump straight into. The one thing most players would categorically agree upon is that the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy only works if you play them all. If you thought that introduction was plot heavy, you haven’t seen anything yet.
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