I'll always find it funny that the ending has the Happy "WE DID IT GUYS WE SAVED THE WORLD" music while Serah just dies and Noel does the Death Cry Echo

This was actually my first final fantasy game and I loved it when I was a kid! I even bought the big ol guide book that I never used (and still have in pieces to this day). I did watch a walkthrough of the first ff13 game later.

Great video, 13-2 is soo underrated! The ost is one of the best in the series !

I love this game so much. I always mention it everytime I can. Thank you so much for this retrospective. Also, I was today years old when I found out about the new dialogue options you get if you redo levels lmao. Now I wanna go play it again❤ (THE MUSIC IS GODLY)

One of my first FFs back in the day and still holding it dear in my heart. God did i stay long in that darkness area to get myself the behemoth as companion xD

Wow! Thanks for this! 13-2 is on of my fav FF games. However, 13 is close to the bottom, lol Nice work on the video! Loved it!

Another great video. I've binged all your content after youtube recommended the 999 vid and you've become a new favorite content creator. Keep up the good work.

FF13 Trilogy had everything!! Content, aesthetics, fire music, open world & Caius!(Badass villain) 🥶

Well, it has Caius as the villain.

So glad to have found your channel. Great to watch you play the games I've enjoyed growing up with 😂and having similar issues with contrived mechanics and plot points

13-2 is the first game in the franchise to introduce a better character than cloud strife, abscoding the reference in the previous game

I love 13-2 so much, bought it for £8 and bought all the dlc after finishing it and played it a ton, i like serah and caius is a great villain just wish it was remastered as a remastered collection especially when i never finished lightning returns so would love to play it all again. 13-2 is probably in my top 5 ff games.

The best thing that came out of 13-2...CRAZY CHOCOBO! Best song of all time.

At 27:22 yujs voice actor is Jeff fisher, the pothead from American dad!

Loved this game. Crazy story. Fun characters. Awesome soundtrack. Badass edgelord villain. Tons of optional content and challenges.

I played through this game with my friend bc she didnt have a ps3 and we both BAWLED when Sarah died ❤ but like we loved the ending. More games that are going to have sequels should have endings where you lose

I loved FF13-2 so damn much. The music is the best part alongside the villain Caius. This game definitely needs an HD remaster soon. A simple mod for the PC version just ain't it.

You are kinda unhinged, and I appreciate that a lot, and I guess many viewers do think so, too. Good going there, keep it up!

I love XIII 2

Does anyone know the techno song at 19:56? Btw *Tremendous* review. I never knew *FF XIII* had a sequel

I just finished the 13 trilogy yesterday and loved the whole thing. I expected to hate it due to the bad reviews and was pleasantly surprised to find that I loved each game in their own way. I've played almost every FF game out there and somehow this skyrocketed to my top 2 (i just consider the trilogy one game since I beat them in order in 2 months... it was a fun 2 months) Glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed 13-2 but man, am I the only one who enjoyed all 3? Haha.

13:15 You mixed up Sabatour and Synergist lol. Synergist is your buffer, and sabatour is your debuffer.

Yeah, XIII-2 is good and it speaks mostly to the pedigree of tri-ace more than anything. Tri-ace are part of the original team that made the Tales series and then split and made their own version of them, the Star Ocean titles. Play Star Ocean 6, since you like modern Tales, you'll find lots in common with that as well. You'll see the similarities with XIII-2 various character interactions as well compared to XIII. As for chemistry between Serah and Noel, probably helps that Noel is a bit like previous Star Ocean main characters and Serah is slightly re-written compared to the utter stiffness of Snow and Serah from XIII. It's probably why the beginning and ending of the game seem like they come out of nowhere, the skeleton of the story was probably conceived first and then the devs were asked to fill in the story with mostly character interactions because there was nothing beyond "save Lightning" so Noel and Serah was so fleshed out they got natural chemistry after a while. This kind of story structure is probably also why it is so self-contained and works so well on its own, without prior knowledge. Also the unconfirmed rumours about the game yanking tri-ace in the middle of making either a new Star Ocean or Valkyrie Profile at the time and cancelling it so tri-ace just used some already made concepts and beats to finish the game earlier per publisher mandate, which is why Noel and Serah are suddenly above the pedigree of what we saw in previous titles and then Lightning Returns.

The FF13 sequels are so fun, idc.

i looked at that same guide amd i still couldn’t get it to work 😭 one day ill be able to play this game

I love this game. It has such an amazing soundtrack.

RamZaes? is that you?

Gilgamesh was my first super boss ever took 20 tries and 2 hours but I did it love this game

Let's be honest honest, the only reason Motomu Toriama made Serah the main character of 13 2 is because he wanted to put Serah in a swimsuit.

bro.. Did you play LISA OST? NOW you can't hide in any timeline

I hated this game. Especially the ending sequence on the platforms. I almost didn’t start Lightning Returns because of that. Lightning Returns is my third favorite game, so I feel you.

I like how this game treat players like they're fucking idiots with the opening: Lighting is the hero she sacrificed herself to save the planet. UH no! That's not how Part 1 ended.

TIL that Anna Nicole Smith dressed up as Rikku.

Interesting take. The story is too messy and kinda boring for my liking but the combat is so weird and confusing that just makes me want to learn it and see it for myself. I love these in-depth jrpgs reviews. Would love you to do a video on Tales of Arise/Tales of Vesperia or Final Fantasy XII in a future.

Are you ram revie?

The reason I like and respect this game more than 13 is the same reason I like and respect 10-2 more than 10. All of these games are pretty dumb. The storytelling is a mess and the writing is a joke. Most of the characters are quite dumb, too. It's a breath of fresh air when these games can actually tell that that's the case and don't bother take themselves seriously, instead focusing on the visuals, the music and the fun. I'd rather replay 10-2 and 13-2 a hundred times than touch 10 or 13 again in my life.

Aw sorry you feel that way don’t really care- if you love this game, but not the others in the trilogy that doesn’t make any kind sense so I don’t feel sorry for you

Gilgamesh was bullshit. The rest of the game was quite good. Also the PC port ran just fine when I played it almost a decade ago

I hate the way you talk but love your videos!

I'm in the minority, I had a lot of fun with 13-2 as well. Didn't love 13 or play Lightning Returns.

No you don't.