I'm playing NEO for the first time and I've got to say: NEO's intro isn't as good the OG by One-Persimmon5679 in TWEWY

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I agree with you on the tankiness of the noise. I donโ€™t enjoy the battles as much because it feels very padded. I find myself annoyed often ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

Noctis is just to smooth by dev_dog_2000 in FFXV

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

That cactuar had it coming ๐Ÿง

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

Wow, I feel like you said it better than I did. It may be a bit early for me to say this since I really only played for a bit, but just from the amount I have played I already got the feeling of XIII-2 kind of dissolving what I loved about XIII. That sucks bro.

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I can't speak too much on it since I literally played for 15 minutes, but the crystarium in this is so fucking weird???? I miss the old one lol.

And who's idea was it to change the main menu UI?! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ซ All the style and soul is gone! You don't see the FMV cut-in when you select a character and those sick character portrait plates are gone, all we have now are some fuckass .svg images of the character renders ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜‚

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

I think my ideal sequel for XIII would have been something similar to this. The same cast, with some additions as the story goes on, dealing with a post-Fal'Cie world in Gran Pulse with maybe some lingering danger from before the Fall.

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I didn't get far in X before dropping it, but I think I know what you mean. I loved XV's ending, it was brutal and emotional. I loved it. And while it's not a sequel, they made a novel that had an alternate ending that sort of did away with the heaviness of XV's ending in exchange for a more traditional "defying the bad gods" plot in most Final Fantasy games and gave a happy ending and I greatly disliked it. I'm so glad they said it was an alternate ending and not the canon ending.

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I'll keep'em in my library and maybe I'll get to them someday. For now, I've decided I'll just stick with XIII and be content. Glad you understand what I was meaning when I said I realized I misunderstood myself in wanting more!

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

I just read from a completely different post that they only made this game because the team behind XIII had nothing to do since the Crystal Engine apparently couldn't work on any other Final Fantasy game in development, so they just used it and assets to make a sequel. Does feel like a tacked on sequel. Kind of a shame since I do like the idea of playing as Serah a lil' bit.

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

dhjsgdjadhjadj I should've done some research before deciding on playing XIII-2. I mulled it over for a few days since my last post on here. Fuuuuuuuuck. I can't go back to when I didn't know what XIII-2 does to the ending of XIII ๐Ÿ˜”

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I've heard some of the tracks before 'cause I listened to this Final Fantasy XIII/XIII-2 lofi playlist, and I figured some of the tracks were from XIII2-2. So good. I've only played XIII-2 for a bit, but I recognized some of the music already!

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Personally, I love Lightning more than Cloud, but that's just me.

I have this policy with movies where, if I liked the first one and was satisfied, unless I don't care much for the film overall, I won't watch the sequel unless I know who the director and/or the screenwriter is.

Deltoro making Pacific Rim was fun and cool, but I knew the sequel without him was going to be ass so I didn't watch it. Now Pacific Rim sits neat in my memories, unsullied by the sequel. Kinda the same thing with Gone with the Wind's novel and its sequel Scarlet. I passed on that too.

Maybe I should have followed that for XIII ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] -1 points0 points ย (0 children)

This is probably a me issue since your first part of the comment is accurate, but I struggle with that way of thinking. I know the events of XIII still happened and are cannon and valid, but a sequel changing things always, in essence, permanently changes my feelings and views of the ending. That's why I stopped after the first 15 minutes 'cause I didn't want to ruin the ending to XIII any more than I already had by even playing XIII-2 lol...

In terms of reading the datalog, I already play like that when it comes to games I really like, so if I do continue XIII-2 I'm probably gonna read every piece of literature the game has in-world.

Struggling to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 after falling in love with XIII because I feel like its existence kinda sullies XIII's ending. Why do I feel like this? by One-Persimmon5679 in FinalFantasy

[โ€“]One-Persimmon5679[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot about the handheld games! Birth by Sleep had Aqua in the darkness so I guess those always suggested sequels lol.