Was thinking the same thing.

same

They explained it during in game dialogue while running around New Bodhum that life on pulse affected their ability to use magic. Something about the land itself.

@@TheShippo529 I remember one of the dialogue options in the first area stating that everybody who was a L'Cie and got turned to Crystal retained the ability to use magic after they recovered from being in a crystal

"Serah was a l'cie? WHAT?!" - Brando, probably.

And when the leader die, the game changes you to the other character without a game over.

Omg I HATEDDDDDDDDDD switching paradigms for that exact reason 😂😂

Well it comes with an other problem : the stagger slowdown can't be skipped now :/

YES. This. If a potential remaster of XIII is coming, this alongside leader switch on death need to be the first QoL improvements patched in.

That's final fantasy in a nutshell. The devs have a weird fixation on radically changing stuff from one game to the next, this got even more exacerbated starting with 10. Not even the side games get a pass. Look at the ff vii compilation, all the games play radically different from each other. OG is a traditional turn based rpg, crisis core is a weird slot machine based game, remake is a full blown action rpg and dirge of cerberus is a friggin shooter, lol.

It makes sense, if you compare to 7 like Brando did in the FF XIII video. FF7 became a brand with many products, the majority of them being none-RPG mobile games. They were trying to do the same thing with XIII, make it a brand with many different types of games that would last over a decade. The big difference being that this was never the plan for 7, it was just a good game with huge success they tried to capitalize on. And this was always the plan for XIII, they just forgot to make a good game...

I was just happy that adult Hope didn't grow up to be a whiny little shit.

If they did great each time, they'd be called revolutionaries. If they did poorly, and they often did, they're thought of as confused and directionless.

X-2 also did that tbf

Did he? In Lightning Returns he's so miserable I found it kind of funny.

@@chrisdaughen5257 That's just his personality. He saved Yuel from a cycle of infinite death, that was all he wanted. He was also miserable in Lightning Returns because Lightning offered him a place in the new word, but he knew he couldn't take Yuel there fore her infinite cycle of death and rebirth would start anew.

@@chrisdaughen5257 From what I remember Caius was pretty content, it was all of the Yeuls that had a problem with him dying that was the issue.

Honestly, I didn't like Caius at all. I mean, yeah, liked more than what we got in original 13 and Lightning Returns, but that's a rock being more interesting than dirt.

I couldn't agree more, his reasoning for his actions in 13-2 felt completely legitimate. He was my favourite thing about the game and I still remember him as one of the best antagonists in gaming history.

Why do you hate it?

​@@zacatkinson3926lightning returns

If you didn't do it right the first time, you failed.

@@LordMalice6d9 thats wrong on so many levels, success comes from trial and error and being willing to fail in order to learn and better yourself

Cringe

Caius was the villain who made more sense than any villain in Final Fantasy to me. His motives made sense, and the story in this game is severely underrated for it.

​@marcusgarcia5089 I mean yeah, you can definitely feel for the guy, but I would argue that he may have gone a little overboard in response.

13-2 is basically 8 but less flawed and also less redeemable

​@@DimitriMoreirathere is no harder way to kill interest in an ff game than to say it's a better version of 13 that's like 8.

Great soundtrack AND sound design

My favourite as well, althought FF 6 comes very, very close. The atmosphere in 13-2 is unmatched to this day.

The soundtrack made me cry multiple times smh I loved plaind of eternity so much I had my game paused for 3 hours

What do you play it on? I was gonna buy it on Steam but I saw countless reviews saying game is unplayable due to bugs and crashes

Rush is one of my favorite songs from any game ever. Those drums mixed with the strings are insane

Played the game blind and only found how hated those puzzles were after but some did take me close to 20+ minutes to figure out but still had some fun doing them.

If u just start on the number the clock hands default to at beginning of puzzle it's majorly helps

It hits because you know it's coming , it's been set up since the beginning of the game , and the point of the story is to stop that from happening but it happens anyway.

@@decilence6184 I mean the Chaos stuff sure, but I didn't expect Serah to die.

@@RuneKatashima The reason nobody expected it... well it's because it's NEVER happened before.. the MC in a jrpg at the time always "won" even if they gave their life for it, they would "stop" them. Problem is even in this game, lightning is still the "MC" even if you're not playing her.

​@@Easelgamesright. Like at the end of FFX, it's tragic and heartbreaking, but at least they "won".

It's crazy because the game tells you that this is going to happen the whole game and you get to the end and think you beat fate and exactly what they said would happen, happened.

Bought 13-2 on a whim and it was amazing. Played 13 on game pass and wasn't terrible but found most people who disliked it were spot on with 90% of their critiques , plus I found the main cast boring and not interesting at all. Serah and Noel were far better for me

I was one of those people. I hated 13 with a passion. It was a complete insult to the final fantasy name so I never even bothered with 13-2 or 3. Over a decade later, I'm downloading it on pc lol. It was $10 I figured why not.

@@paladinmatt1697 RIP lol, PC port is atrocious

When I first played the game on the ps4. I could find 13-1 & Lighting return. But wasn't able to grt a copy of 13-2. So it was weird me playing thus series. Have it on pc now, just need to get the urge to play this grindy game out lol

Hugely disagree. Combat didn't feel as satisfying and the way progression works is super wack

I'd forgotten this song was a thing and when the track opened in this video I about fell out of my chair laughing and remembering my original reaction to it back in the day.

I was laughing so hard at that.

That song was composed by Eumatsu, who is huge into metal.

I hate this game BUT, everytime I replay another FF, I have this specific song in my mind when I ride a chocobo. I love it!

>the plot is all over the place and time, lol

LR is underrated by far. Its like a love letter game to the entire series.

I wouldn't say it has higher highs. In fact, I felt the only high was the very end... *well, and Noel, Snow to a lesser extent.

The highs are indeed high, but man... the lows... Especially with the localization like jeez.

@@thaneros I mean...if a love letter was written by the most incompetent lover Earth has ever known, yes...

@@TheAsvarduilProject Ok we get it cool guy, you don't like the game.

More to come!

The graphics were amazing.when I watch and see how good sera was designed,it makes me think ff15 really missed out on a female party member

The graphics are legit what I aspire for when I work in 3D lol

@@holy9781 nah the brojob train was gold.

@@final3119 but it wasn't lol no character development unless u had the dlc

@@holy9781 brojob brojob brojob brojob

XIII’s bland and lifeless combat was honestly a turning point for me with buying anymore FF games. I’m genuinely happy to hear the devs listened to people but also that they actually were able to fix it as well. I MIGHT give XIII-2 a chance if the gameplay itself really got the update it desperately needed ❤

Oh they totally just pulled some nonsense straight out of their asses to create a reason for a sequel. I agree 100%. Outside that the game was great. And at least they 3rd game didn't need some ex post facto shenanigans to justify making it.

never considered this but it makes a very valid point

Easy as hell but fun and flashy.

But did you watch Spirits within after Lightning returns?

Me too, I absolutely loved the xiii series. And it’s still my favorite game series to this day

@@vanifarron 13 was my first Final Fantasy since 7 and 8, and I loved it so much that I immediately got the rest of the trilogy. I even have the light novels.

Same.

Plus, when you get to the end of time where Noel and Caius were from, that whole scene was a masterpiece. Vast wasteland with that haunting music being sung in the background.

@@thekwjiboo definitely masterpiece story telling, that world felt real and full of emotion like you can just feel the pain caius, noel and yuel had to endure

Agreed. Caius is the best villain in the series and may be the most complete "sad dad" out there in fiction. I say "sad dad" as he's basically not only Yuel's protector but also her father and he constantly has to watch her suffer and it drives him nuts (understandably).

"his English voice acting by Liam O'Brien is fucking incredible IMO." true, true

Caius Ballad is the best villain of the 3D FF's easily.

Am I really the only one that hated Caius? Always see praise for him and I just don't get it.

XIII was my first game too. I played it when I was 12 and loved it.

🤣🤣🤣 man why not let's transform like sailor moon does, fucking epic scenes i am luaghing so hard i had to go to the toilet before it is tool late 😂😂😂

I don't know either, but thanks for the words guy

It isn't canon tho because it's useless once u get her, the story is over so...

late comment here but the way i understood it, those arent the actual people/monsters, theyre crystals aka representations of their sources. i think thats why theyre called monster crystals and that youre able to switch that third character slot whenever. as for her being the most powerful monster in the game, yes thats 100% true but she becomes incredibly useful fighting gilgamesh and level 99 valdfodr

@@keyblader2k6 It’s a loose lore explanation but either way, fun to think about.

@@PJTierney agreed

If you still have your copy of it, go for it, I wouldnt go spend money on it though. I've played 13 through once and a second time up to the fight with bart after eroba(?) vanilles home town, and then put it down (I was playing it at work during my down time, got frustrated after losing the fight once and then quit since I already knew how the game ended anyway and I'd really been making myself play up to that point anyway), and played 13-2 through once I really wouldnt recommend spending money on either of them to be perfectly honest. For his painting of 13 as better than it seems on paper, the thing is, it has the rating it does for a reason. you're going to have to overlook a lot of flaws and "see the good in it" despite that "good" not being apparent, the voice acting and story not selling it, and the gameplay getting stale really fast. Its just the truth, that its something you have to not just want to see the good in, but actively ignore the bad because it detracts from the good so much And 13-2 is honestly worse IMO in that regard. Therse so much bad, so many things that werent improved, or that were in some ways made worse or more annoying, and then the whole time travel thing making it so you can screw up the order of scenes and characters know things they shouldnt or not know things they should at certain points, and their regression of both lightning and snows character development from the previous game, their handling of sazh, hope who SHOULD have serious PTSD from fal'cies literally making a fal'cie like wtf bro ???? They just did not do a good job with 13-2, and 13-3 from what I've seen in playthroughs and such is even worse in so many ways. Like I said, if you have a copy, go for it. But dont let the up-selling of this video get you to trick yourself into thinking they are better than you remember. They arent. They're mediocre at best, and you'll have to make yourself ignore a lot of the fuckups in order to enjoy it more than it just being a time killer. they're not awful games, they're not buggy glitch filled messes that will melt your hard drive or something (well, 13-2 may if you play it on PC) and the voice acting isnt awful or anything like that... buuutttt, they're not objectively good games, and even subjectively you have to blind yourself to the bad and solely focus on the good in order to see it.

Played them in reverse and I disliked 13 but love 13-2. Will play LR soon but not expecting to like it much because it's just lightning again ...

He in the video brings up that it's found in the datalogs and states that it's actually a fault against the game since that is kind of key world-building to explain the change in the world's rules that is completely missable and swept under the rug. He even compared it to how most the datalog stuff in the first game being mostly interesting stuff that is not super important to understand why things are the way they are as being why it's mostly okay in 1 but a noticeable flaw here. Though I do think I also remember certain optional dialogue also alludes to this, but that's honestly kinda an issue in of itself since that's kinda important information to make it not seem like a plot-hole, yet you can miss the dialogue.

So then the assumption is while on/in Cocoon, there was some kind of paling or spell in place to prevent humans from wielding magic. Still… seems more like a statement than an explanation.

@@preshader7718 iirc people always had the potential to use magic but this lay dormant in Cocoon citizens until activated by a falcie. i believe the source of that power is Chaos, or the crystal in their hearts, which the 3rd game delves a lot into. from a lore perspective, an observer angle from which i remember some of the datalogs being written, the people didn't really have an explanation to regaining magic and thought they adapted it from living on Pulse.

@@wilddragonchase I can get behind the perspective of the people in the World, but the former explanation about dormancy of a crystal inside them not too sure. Chaos I can at least understand as it pervades the world after the fall of I’m not mistaken. Even a little lingering presence would make much sense as to why their ability had returned.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Don't forget about Zemus,Ultimecia and Necron.

Orphan is mentionned in chapter 9 for the first time, but he's actually forshadowed each time the bird appears on screen (he appears for the first time in chapter 3), since he has Orphan on its chest.

I've noticed a lot of people commenting this even though he shows 13-2s reason for her magic onscreen If Serah gets magic because shes an ex-L'cie...then why does Noel have magic? The only explanation that consistently makes sense is the awful one the game provides ...Maybe they shouldnt have given Noel magic. Maybe Serah should have had the 6 paradigms we're used to, and Noel shouldve had 6 new kinds that utilise his skills as a guardian or something I dunno~

But people awaken from crystal because they have a new focus, right? So what's here's?

y'all .... it's literally explained in NPC dialogue and the Datalog. Ever since the fall of Cocoon and many people moved to Pulse, some people started to have an affinity for Magic and can use it like Serah and Noel

You may have misheard what he said. He talks about the monster cusctene, he said they explain how she uses MAGIC in a data log. Not monsters.

@@14megasxlr no I didn’t. 25:46 “once again I only know this because I was digging deep into the data log.”. The whole thing starts at 25:38

LR is a hidden gem. The somber atmosphere, music and the battle system were really good. I enjoyed it so much, that I didn´t want it to end.

Lightning return was the first single player FF I didn't play since FF7. XIII and XIII-2 completely killed my interest.

@Goddess lol the sidequests were great and the level of exploration in each area was near perfect (wildlands is the best), if u don't grab every little thing u find on the ground u are screwed

@@nicogalax that’s your opinion but let’s be honest they never made a good sidequest

@@nicogalax a mainline FF game where it's mostly side quests? You can keep it if you want. Compared to previous titles, that's so bad. Thanks to even more light being shed on this series, it keeps sounding worse.

how did that come to pass? did you know it was a sequel?

@@goncaloferreira6429 Yeah. I was gonna get both but the dude working the gamestop counter told me I shouldn't for some reason. So I, being the impressionable young man I was, ended up just getting the shinier newer one.

@@RockR277 that's funny lmao

how funny 13-2 was my first FF game too! i thought i mightve been the only person to have made that strange choice lol. i knew it was a sequel ofc but figured i'd be fine without playing the first. led to me being extremely confused and giving up on it. then years later, i played lightning returns and had a lot of fun on the ps3, didnt finish it the first time. then a couple years after that, i finally completed the entire trilogy in order on my pc. so incredibly rewarding and a beautiful emotional journey

bro there's literally only a map on the screen??? and it can be turned off by pressing select.

@@dexedge4645 I’m talking about the combat

the problem is with the looks. Serah look and sound 16 while snow look and sound 30. English vocals dont do these 2 are favor. Japanese vocal make snow a lot younger.

@@faznanbadri6854 so a black guy married to a Chinese girl is = p£dō?

@@faznanbadri6854 Ah yes, because someones voice dictates if their relationship is shady. You can be the same age, but if one of you sound young and the other old... well god damn son, you better lock your doors cause the FBI is coming. People have such arbitrary rules for the legitimacy of a relationship smh.

@@flamingbuu voice is 1 of 2 part i said. because they look the same in both english and japanese version, all i can think of is the voice.

​Calm tf down​. They were just making an observation. Sounds like you got something to hide. Has Chris Hanson been house btw? @@flamingbuu

Careful. The PC port is terrible.

@@aeroga2383 it really is lol. still managed to play through with relatively little issues besides it crashing once or twice