STORY
LR:FFXIII's story takes place 500 years after the Chaos flooded out of Valhalla. Lightning woke up from her crystal sleep by the God himself, Bhunivelze and tasked her to save the souls of the remaining people that inhabit Nova Chrysalia and guide them to the new world. In return, the God will give Lightning's dead sister Serah back to her alive and well. Lightning agrees, then Bhunivelze removed Lightning's emotions (and somehow humanity) so that she can perform better in her final quest to save the souls of the people. During her quest, she will meet people that needs saving. She will also meet her old friends, and some of them are tired, desperate, miserable and empty after 500 years. The lively characters that lighten up the mood here is Fang and the new character, Lumina.
Anyways the story and motive of LR:FFXIII is a little weaker compared from the first two games, adding to that weak story is Lightning and Hope's lack of emotion (story plot). Where's Lightning's sudden bursts of anger and grumpiness? The story isn't just about Lightning, it's also about all people that she encounters during the last 13 days, but most of these people are boring, making it somehow painful to save them. Sometimes I felt lazy saving them, but as the savior, I must do it.
GAMEPLAY
The game is open world. Nova Chrysalia is a huge world with four huge areas The four areas are: Luxerion, Yusnaan, The Dead Dunes and The Wildlands. Your method of fast tracking is to ride a monorail, use the Teleport ability and use the Cactuar teleport stones only found in the Dead Dunes. You can also run around this world on foot but it will take a lot of time.
Speaking of time, the game have a doomsday clock constantly ticking everytime you explore this beautiful world which is a shame. You are given 6 days, but you can either extend the world's lifespan, accelerate it or stop it for a short period depending on your actions. The clock stops when you're in battle, accessing the menu/map and of course when you paused the game.
Note that Hope always talk to Lightning via communicator and he never shuts up. It takes a lot of time to finish to their conversation and it often gets interrupted by monster battles and cutscene/NPC/object/location triggers. In short, if you're in a hurry, don't listen to Hope and some people, but you'll be missing some important story elements.
Note that Hope always talk to Lightning via communicator and he never shuts up. It takes a lot of time to finish to their conversation and it often gets interrupted by monster battles and cutscene/NPC/object/location triggers. In short, if you're in a hurry, don't listen to Hope and some people, but you'll be missing some important story elements.
You only control Lightning in this game that's why the Paradigm Shift evolved into the Schemata system, which is awesome. In this battle system you can fully control Lightning and only use three Schematas (imagine them as your party members), press L1 or R1 to cycle through them. The Schematas are fully customizable from selecting garbs found in the game (or DLC) to choosing weapons, shields, accessories, adornments, and assigning abilities on each of the 4 face buttons. The garbs have stats and sometimes locked abilities. To get Abilities, you must defeat monsters. The variety of these equipment give the players freedom to make your own unique style during battles
This game doesn't have any leveling system. You only get EP (for skills), Gils and monster drops when defeating monsters. If you want Lightning to get stronger, you must complete the quests from the Main Quests, Side Quests from strangers and the Canvas of Prayers. The quests have few varieties like the standard MMO style fetch quests (also with few variations but still boring), Checking up on people everyday, and other stuff like sheep herding or the escort mission during your first visit in Luxerion. It's up to you on how you tackle this quests in any order you want while you manage your time.
Lightning have EP so that she can use her god-like abilities to aid her in her battles and saving souls. The most useful abilities are: Chronostasis (stops time for 1 minute in real world), Teleport (if you don't want to use the monorail) and Overclock (slows time in battles and making Lightning faster) and the Army of One (press the Overclock trigger again to during Overclock). You can exterminate every type of monster in the game if you use Chronostasis too much.
The game have difficulty spikes, you'll die plenty of times if you're not careful (I hate those Earth Eaters and Chocobo Eaters!). Areas surrounded with Chaos infusions makes monsters stronger, these Chaos infusions appears at random.
Some people recommend to play this game on Easy mode first because it's almost impossible to finish this in one playthrough, But I did finish the game on Normal mode. I even completed the Canvas of Prayers and left with two Side Quests: the monster extermination and the "super boss" quests. The game encourages a second playthrough. The weapon, shield and accessory upgrade and Hard Mode are unlocked on New Game +. Hard Mode have new garbs and items to get. I also forgot, the 14th day and the Ultimate Dungeon exists.
GRAPHICS
The game's dying world is beautiful, it makes you want to spend the time to view the world, but you cant because of the time restriction. Some objects and environment suffer from low texture detail. The game also suffers from occasional framerate drops when there are a lot of things in the background. Lightning's in-game model has been redone to make it look very detailed and beautiful during cutscenes, important characters are well detailed too. 99% of cutscenes are in-game, the CGI cutscenes are only at the beginning and at the end.
MUSIC
Each areas of Nova Chrysalia have very fitting music themes that changes during the day, afternoon and night. Each parts of the areas have different music. There are some re-used music from the past two games and they were assigned and fit nicely to the game's mood and atmosphere. The overall music theme of the game is not as epic as FFXIII's music but it's good enough and easy to the ear.
CONCLUSION
The story is weaker, the characters are all in emo-mode and Lightning's lack of emotion is a downer. But the gameplay is great. The battle system and garb collecting is surprisingly addictive and this game gives an epic final bang, literally, to the FFXIII series and those loose ends of the story also got blown up. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, at least for me, is the best of the series because of its open world and battle mechanic, and this game is a must have for ultimate Final Fantasy fans and those who managed to play the first two FFXIII games (they are rewarded with 2 of Lightning's garbs from previous games).
This game doesn't have any leveling system. You only get EP (for skills), Gils and monster drops when defeating monsters. If you want Lightning to get stronger, you must complete the quests from the Main Quests, Side Quests from strangers and the Canvas of Prayers. The quests have few varieties like the standard MMO style fetch quests (also with few variations but still boring), Checking up on people everyday, and other stuff like sheep herding or the escort mission during your first visit in Luxerion. It's up to you on how you tackle this quests in any order you want while you manage your time.
Lightning have EP so that she can use her god-like abilities to aid her in her battles and saving souls. The most useful abilities are: Chronostasis (stops time for 1 minute in real world), Teleport (if you don't want to use the monorail) and Overclock (slows time in battles and making Lightning faster) and the Army of One (press the Overclock trigger again to during Overclock). You can exterminate every type of monster in the game if you use Chronostasis too much.
The game have difficulty spikes, you'll die plenty of times if you're not careful (I hate those Earth Eaters and Chocobo Eaters!). Areas surrounded with Chaos infusions makes monsters stronger, these Chaos infusions appears at random.
Some people recommend to play this game on Easy mode first because it's almost impossible to finish this in one playthrough, But I did finish the game on Normal mode. I even completed the Canvas of Prayers and left with two Side Quests: the monster extermination and the "super boss" quests. The game encourages a second playthrough. The weapon, shield and accessory upgrade and Hard Mode are unlocked on New Game +. Hard Mode have new garbs and items to get. I also forgot, the 14th day and the Ultimate Dungeon exists.
GRAPHICS
The game's dying world is beautiful, it makes you want to spend the time to view the world, but you cant because of the time restriction. Some objects and environment suffer from low texture detail. The game also suffers from occasional framerate drops when there are a lot of things in the background. Lightning's in-game model has been redone to make it look very detailed and beautiful during cutscenes, important characters are well detailed too. 99% of cutscenes are in-game, the CGI cutscenes are only at the beginning and at the end.
MUSIC
Each areas of Nova Chrysalia have very fitting music themes that changes during the day, afternoon and night. Each parts of the areas have different music. There are some re-used music from the past two games and they were assigned and fit nicely to the game's mood and atmosphere. The overall music theme of the game is not as epic as FFXIII's music but it's good enough and easy to the ear.
CONCLUSION
The story is weaker, the characters are all in emo-mode and Lightning's lack of emotion is a downer. But the gameplay is great. The battle system and garb collecting is surprisingly addictive and this game gives an epic final bang, literally, to the FFXIII series and those loose ends of the story also got blown up. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, at least for me, is the best of the series because of its open world and battle mechanic, and this game is a must have for ultimate Final Fantasy fans and those who managed to play the first two FFXIII games (they are rewarded with 2 of Lightning's garbs from previous games).
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