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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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he's a cool character
RPGCrazied
Member
That's a shame. No different weapon models in the game. I thought Kagari said there was. Maybe I read wrong. Surely the ultimate weapon is different. 
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
That's a shame. No different weapon models in the game. I thought Kagari said there was. Maybe I read wrong. Surely the ultimate weapon is different.
There are no real ultimate weapons in the game, there is a stronger weapon, giving you no abilities, or a weaker weapon that gives you an extra atb bar. Best fact for last, both are pretty useless since the game is so easy that these weapons make no difference, aquiring them is not worth the effort either ...
jimmypython
Member
That's a shame. No different weapon models in the game. I thought Kagari said there was. Maybe I read wrong. Surely the ultimate weapon is different.
yes and no. the DLC weapons are different.
Haven't really seen anything beyond screenshots. He just reminds me so much of Tidus in terms of design, especially those stupid baggy pants with different leg lengths.
That's a shame. No different weapon models in the game. I thought Kagari said there was. Maybe I read wrong. Surely the ultimate weapon is different.
Some of the DLC ones look different. See the genji bow gamestop is giving away.
APZonerunner
Member
Review took a long time to fashion; it's very, very long but very, very detailed... so I hope people on the fence get something out of it. I'll be doing a much shorter, simpler regular-length review of the EU version when the embargo lifts.
Wow, nice. Wasn't expecting such an in depth review. Good stuff.
I wanted to make sure to cover everything.
Quite the read. Barring the story woes--which I can't take too seriously since it's a case-by-case thing (and my standards are low anyway)--it seems like I have quite a bit to look forward to.
Reading through it, I do think they should have just nixed Haste/Slow altogether. It would feel awkward to not have them, I suppose, but they're just tremendously powerful abilities and it was kind of annoying in FFXIII that basically every fight involved them (until Auto-ing it). Though I wager this is just a bad reaction to the whole Mog Clock thing :x
R_thanatos
Member
Nice review ..i'm a sucker for time travel stories so my resistance might be higher .. i'm gonna enjoy this game.
Great review, thanks for that.
Does it tell you when it's a one time only monster? Or is it obvious in any way?
badcrumble
Member
It seems pretty obvious that there'll be DLC at some point that gives you a 'best' weapon that has the advantages of both.
The Last One
Member
Talking about DLC, what's the price for Omega Weapon?
badcrumble
Member
Free in Japan, preorder exclusive in the US (of course it'll be made available for download but I'm pretty certain they haven't announced a price yet).
Omega's apparently not all that great as a summoned monster compared to Kichu, anyway.
Awesome :|.
The Last One
Member
Man, how I hate that pre-order exclusive thing. So, we'll be able to summon Omega? Awesome, but I really just want to fight it anyway =p
brandonh83
Banned
Very good review Kagari. Definitely increases my excitement. Sounds like despite the problems that there's a lot of positives as well. I wasn't super excited with the 360 demo but after playing the PS3 demo which ran a lot better, I was able to stop being concerned about the performance and thus "got into" the game a lot more.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Awesome review kaga, I miss in depth reviews like this that break down the mechanics and parts of a game without bias.
RPGCrazied
Member
Nice review kagari!
Can't wait to see these avatars you did.
Can't wait to see these avatars you did.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
He's actually a pretty decent character. Not really like Tidus at all.
My dad always used to make a point to bash Tidus's pants and his whiny personality whenever my parents watched me play FFX when I was a teenager. Tidus did have stupid pants.
At least there are alternate costumes... though the ones we've seen aren't very great.
Yaaaaay.
*opens* I like these parts, actually...
I agree on both counts, in particular, the animation bit. The animations in the demo were fantastic. Whoever decided to add in Noel's animations for his swordplay and blitz attacks is my hero.
Very well-written review. I liked that you broke the game down piece by piece... something I don't really see a lot of reviews do in recent times.
badcrumble
Member
You can re-fight it as much as you like, apparently.
RPGCrazied
Member
Found this awesome 1080p wallpaper. Never seen it before. I'm sure some of you have, just thought I'd share with yall though.
link to the full size wallpaper:
http://www.v3wall.com/wallpaper/1920_1080/1201/1920_1080_201201040106331669979.jpg
link to the full size wallpaper:
http://www.v3wall.com/wallpaper/1920_1080/1201/1920_1080_201201040106331669979.jpg
Glad you guys liked it
It is quite informative, you went the distance to cover everything the game has to offer.
Kagari, good review, I agree with pretty much most of what you said.
2 small points just to note, from my understanding Noel excels in Attacker, Healer, Enhancer, and Sera in Blaster, Defender, Jammer. I thought it was quite weird that way, but ability wise, Sera is supposed to be the better defender. Not that I ever used her in that role myself, that was was my silver chocobo was for.
Second, on the mog clock battle, if you hit the enemy any time while the clock is up, you'd get haste and preemptive strike. If they run into you the battle is normal, and if the clock runs out you can't restart. The green section was only to indicate that if you accidentally run into the enemy at that time it won't start a battle. Once it runs to yellow, then it would.
2 small points just to note, from my understanding Noel excels in Attacker, Healer, Enhancer, and Sera in Blaster, Defender, Jammer. I thought it was quite weird that way, but ability wise, Sera is supposed to be the better defender. Not that I ever used her in that role myself, that was was my silver chocobo was for.
Second, on the mog clock battle, if you hit the enemy any time while the clock is up, you'd get haste and preemptive strike. If they run into you the battle is normal, and if the clock runs out you can't restart. The green section was only to indicate that if you accidentally run into the enemy at that time it won't start a battle. Once it runs to yellow, then it would.
itzknickknac
Member
Once I finish my first play through, I'll be reading this review. So, I cant wait!
On that note, does anyone know if the genji bow will be any good?
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Nice review Kagari, even if I didn't play the game yet, I feel you're review does alot in staying concrete and realistic. I even found bits of infos I still didn't know, and that's a surprise. I just hope we'll have different opinions about the story, because I wanna enjoy it
That was a stellar review, I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. The content was good, the score was good, and it all made sense. Its pretty cool that the people of this thread watched your progress from beginning to end too hehe. I'm definitely going to check out some of your other reviews ( assume you reviewed FFXIII as well?)
Er yeah, somehow that mog clock bit got mixed up in the editing process, fixed now.
As for the roles, I'll double check but I'm pretty sure Noel is the better Defender.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Serah has ライズガード but Noel has リジェネガード.
IMO, リジェネガード is better than ライズガード just because of the added defense + regenerative properties. That kind of makes Noel more ideal to me. Plus he should have more HP than Serah, right?
Let's see... Both get seven abilities. Noel gets his abilities sooner than Serah as a whole.
Serah's Defender abilities are:
Noel's Defender abilities are:
IMO, リジェネガード is better than ライズガード just because of the added defense + regenerative properties. That kind of makes Noel more ideal to me. Plus he should have more HP than Serah, right?
Let's see... Both get seven abilities. Noel gets his abilities sooner than Serah as a whole.
Serah's Defender abilities are:
- Provoke
- Steelguard
- バオルガード (Bar-All Guard? Does this replace the Bar abilities that ENH would normally use? I guess they'd translate this as Elemental Guard in English)
- エリアバリア (Fringeward - When Defender is targeted by an attack, any party members who also get attacked in that same attack will receive 35% less damage)
- リベンジモード(Revenge Mode - Vendetta - each time DEF uses Vendetta in the bar increases final counter damage by 10%; the more damage they take during this time, the more damage they deal back)
- ピンチバリア (Pinch Barrier - Deathward)
- ラストリーヴ (Last Life - Reprieve)
Noel's Defender abilities are:
- Provoke
- Mediguard
- Fringeward
- Pinch Barrier/Deathward
- リベンジチャージ (Revenge Charge - Entrench - each time DEF uses Entrench in the ATB bar increases the final counter damage by 30%; the longer DEF guards, the more damage they deal back)
- Bar-All Guard/Elemental Guard
- Reprieve
toastyToast
Member
Great review, Kagari.
Informative in a way that I haven't been informed in a review since, I... honestly can't recall.
As far as the environments and whatnot, are they interesting to explore? Mechanically, the game seems rather sound with the improvements made. I'm wondering whether or not I'll enjoy running around just doing shit going off of the area in the demo. That place was just awful
Some of them area, I guess this one might be up to personal preference though. There's several fragments you have to get by 100% exploring all maps, so if you want to 100% the game you'll have to explore everything anyway.
The art style is good, yes. I just wish Toriyama would have keep his creepy waifu stuff out of it.
The Xtortionist
Member
Will the game recognize a copied FF13 save file?
I tried it out with a Japanese and American version save on my PS3 and it worked.
The Xtortionist
Member
Kewl kewl, I traded in 13 and deleted my save last year sometime lol.
Hold on a minute, did they remove Elude?!? That was my favorite Sen ability. First Haste now this? Bah.
Tizoc
Member
Well, after 30-40 hours of post game grinding (resulting in a total time of under 70 hours), I finally got it folks-
Major thanks to Dark Schalla for the tips, I took down that big blue turtle easier than I thought lol.
Looking forward to FF13-2, and hopefull the difficulty is upped in the Eng. release.
Major thanks to Dark Schalla for the tips, I took down that big blue turtle easier than I thought lol.
Looking forward to FF13-2, and hopefull the difficulty is upped in the Eng. release.
Grats! How long did it take you?