Good improvement
posted by Rodman3942 (TIVERTON, RI) Mar 6, 2012
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For those of you familiar with Final Fantasy 13, you know the one nagging flaw that everyone complains about: it's too linear. The game feels like a RPG version of a modern FPS, walk down a hall, event, walk down another hall, event, etc. etc. Well Square-Enix hear our complaints and and released what the original should have been in XIII-2.
The game uses a slightly modified version of the combat system from XIII, and introduces the monster system into combat. Like any monster combat system, capturing a monster isn't certain, you need to evolve the creature after you get it and so on and so on.
The story is good as well. First, as Lightning, you are thrown into a strange but intense combat with unknown forces for unknown reasons. Then you take over Serah, who is thrown into an improbable situation against insurmountable odds with almost no hope of changing your destiny. Sound familiar? The story is different enough that despite the commonality of the themes, it still feels like a new and fresh story.
For the completionists out there, this title is mostly story related and most of the other achievements can be acquired while completing the "get all ___" achievements. All in all it will take around 80-120 hours of work depending on how you play and your level of insanity.
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