I hiz jest finitched it yah?! Whoo!
Well, it took me a while, but I finally made it through FF XIII. I am left wondering whether I actually liked the game now... I certainly didn't dislike it, but even the story at the end seemed a tad vague for me.

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I just beat the game like 5 minutes ago! I disagree with those who are saying FFXIII wasn't a good game. I've found myself a rather satisfied customer

I support Xephonai about the datalog as well, I was constantly reading it throughout the game. Primary reason being because I couldn't stand all those bloody exclamation marks whenever I went into the menu. That's right I even went into my inventory just to clear them out...LOL, I'm so anal But also because the datalog does indeed hold a lot of backstory and insight into the game's events. I think the datalog did help to paint a clearer picture. And quite honestly though, if they had put all that information into cutscenes I think you would've gotten something like those cutscenes that were overloaded with information in MGS4 xD

The final boss was a bit annoying though, only because I got the feeling of "WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!?". He just kept coming back! lol. The ending made me sad though, but definitely satisfied. I'll be going back to play the post-game stuff too

Edit:
Forgot to mention this, even though I think the game is good I thought it was really lame how they revealed Lightning's real name :\
Few other things that I didn't quite like were how they killed off some of the characters...

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Bumping FTW.

Okay. The ending. *Shudder*

If the game ended when you see that shot of Lightning as crystal (along with the others), I think I would've liked it about 50x more than I do.

Anybody agree with me? Did anybody like the ending?

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Astharis Wrote:Bumping FTW.

Okay. The ending. *Shudder*

If the game ended when you see that shot of Lightning as crystal (along with the others), I think I would've liked it about 50x more than I do.

Anybody agree with me? Did anybody like the ending?

IDk. I was quite satisfied with the ending myself.
Maybe not everything was answered but I found it to be my favorite ending of any game i've played this year. Me being satisfied with a ending is something that doesn't happen that much anymore.

The possible ending your talking about might have been better, but I would have to see that rendition of the ending for real to give a honest opinion.

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All the way through the game, the l'Cie are fighting against their focus, so they don't become Cieth and they don't become Crystal (both being pretty crappy and pretty much being the same as dead). The main characters experience BOTH of those fates, and OH LOOK... It didn't stick either way. SO what was everyone so afraid of in the first place? It made me feel like I shouldn't have bothered.

I think that they all should have stayed as crystal... Perhaps permanently, but at least for their 100 years and then they all wake up together (including Serah & Dajh) in the future. Fang & Vanille should probably stay crystal forever, due to their huge sacrifice to save Cocoon (and Gran Pulse, to some extent).

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Yeah, I like bittersweet endings; They shouldn't have woken up-But it'd be cute if it ending with everyone in their crystal, and then the secret ending showed some kids that looked like them praying or something.

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