2012-08-24, 08:45 AM
I agree, I enjoyed XIII a lot because of it's plot, I thought it was really well done, very atmospheric, very dramatic, good main characters that were easily likable. However gameplay-wise it was kinda lacking.
XIII-2 on the other hand completely threw out of the plot and ruined it in my opinion. The time travel nonsense was boring, Serah and Noel are not interesting characters and Caius was a bad villain in my eyes. He would have made a much more epic villain if the story had led up to a final fight with him, in a similar way that VIII did with Ultimecia. Fighting Caius around 4 or 5 times in the plot was just boring, and his skills never changed, even for the final boss fight. Yeul was a practically non-existent character, and Hope somehow became more boring than his whiney teenager form in the first game.
That being said, XIII-2 improved everything in terms of gameplay.
XIII-2 on the other hand completely threw out of the plot and ruined it in my opinion. The time travel nonsense was boring, Serah and Noel are not interesting characters and Caius was a bad villain in my eyes. He would have made a much more epic villain if the story had led up to a final fight with him, in a similar way that VIII did with Ultimecia. Fighting Caius around 4 or 5 times in the plot was just boring, and his skills never changed, even for the final boss fight. Yeul was a practically non-existent character, and Hope somehow became more boring than his whiney teenager form in the first game.
That being said, XIII-2 improved everything in terms of gameplay.