Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII || Noel Boss Fight || Fantasy JRPG [PC]
2A fantastic "expansion" for FFXIII with a great combat system
+ Wonderful Environments in certain areas
+ Fantastic Combat System, this time around you only play as lightning but you have multiple "classes" that you switch bebtween on the fly with their own energy meters keeping the action fast and fluid.
+ LOTS of cutimization, including giving your character silly unique items like hats, tails, cat ears, and the ability to change the colors of all outfits
+ Great Voice Acting
+ Enjoyable characters
+ Plenty of fearsome enemies and bosses
+ Limitations on healing items create the need to conserve and use healing potions wisely, it also creates a actual desire to guard and worry about your HP which causes every fight to be worrisome
+ Combining Spells to make them more powerful with more potent effects, along with leveling them up
+ Plenty of enjoyable rewarding side quests
+ All quests when completed will improve your base stats along with other rewards. This is a very nice touch, and makes you want to take the time to complete side-quests. (there is no expeirence or leveling system, it's mostly based on your gear and abilities)
- The story is... a bit vague and confusing. You are basically working for a god to save souls to bring to a new world, so that your sister can be reborn. (and apparently everyone seems to be many centuries old....)
- Not a good game to start with, you really want to playthrough FFXIII and FFXIII-2 before you play this one.
- There is this "countdown-timer" that is constantly ticking, it basically warns you only have 6 days before the end of the world, you can extend this to 13 days, but I absolutely can't stand game's with timers, it makes me feel rushed and doesn't allow me to fully explore or set my own pace. *I think they added this for replayability reasons*
- Along with the timer there's a clock, and many quests require you to wait until a certain time a day before starting or finishing a quest. While waiting you are supposed to go around and do side quests, and explore other areas, but it always made me paranoid that I was going to miss something.
- At 6am each day Hope teleports you to the ship no matter what you may doing. He does this so that you can give souls you collected to God to extend the timeframe, but it's really annoying.
- The game is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, I'm not using a guide, and the pacing feels VERY OFF, I feel like I'm entering areas with monsters far above my current ability, and doing quests that I probably shouldn't be completing yet. In the video above you can kinda get the sense of this, but there's no indication of what order I should do things in so I end up just choosing things at random, and praying I have the skills to beat the bosses.
Overall it's a great game in the series, although I HIGHLY suggest you play through FFXIII BEFORE you play this or you may get a bit discouraged.