Daisuke Watanabe also wrote FFXIII-2, didn't he?

I know he was especially responsible for FFXII's midgame narrative and FFXIII's Pulse+ narrative.
Here's how Watanabe wrote those two sections from those two games:
1. Party is told to go to a place.
2. Main character makes a big-ass monologue, and the story is told this way. Other characters react in a generic way.
3. Something interesting (or not) starts to happen somewhere else, and the party is told of this while they're still stuck in the dungeon/ field/ whatever place it is.
4. They reach the end of the place. Another monologue narrates the next event of the story.
5. Plot twists are told through monologues. Party reacts in a generic way.
6. Back to 1 and repeat. Party is told to go somewhere else.
It's as dry as it can get. Maybe Watanabe is more responsible for the monologue-narration than Toriyama, though.
But add Toriyama, and you have plot holes, contradictions, stupidity, forced drama, deus ex machinas, perverted jokes, anti-climaxes, and overall unfocused, underdeveloped plots worthy of fanfiction. Ah, and at least one character that will point their gun to an ally.