The gods were vanquished, their plans to massacre the human race destroyed. It was the beginning of a new era. However, she was nowhere to be found. Three years later, a single meteorite falls from the sky. As spatial distortions are created, bloodthirsty monsters appear, threatening the peaceful existence of the townspeople.
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No minimum to No maximum. Off-topic Review Activity. Snow sets out to find Lightning but also goes missing. In truth, the mysterious energy known as chaos that seeps from the dead half of the universe, the unseen realm , had dragged Lightning to the world between life and death—Valhalla—as a result of the goddess Etro reaching into the mortal realm to release Lightning and her friends from crystal stasis as thanks for them having saved Cocoon.
Etro had closed the gate between the realms to prevent more chaos from coming through, but had been greatly weakened and fallen into a deep sleep. Lightning becomes Etro's knight to protect her from a mysterious man who wants to kill the goddess to destroy the timeline, Caius Ballad , whom Etro once made immortal by giving him her own heart, the Heart of Chaos. As Lightning is caught in a never-ending battle against Caius, the two of them equally strong, she knows she needs help.
When Noel Kreiss enters Valhalla, the goddess Etro having chosen him as a time traveler, Lightning sends him on a mission to bring her sister Serah to her. The two travel the world to different eras solving paradoxes as they go to prevent the bleak future from which Noel hails from: he is the last man at the end of the world in a future that was plunged into desolation when the crystallized Cocoon fell.
When Lightning's old companion Hope Estheim hears of this, he sets out to prevent Cocoon's eventual fall from destroying the world. During their travels Serah and Noel learn Snow had become a time traveler like them, which is why he never returned. They also learn of the seeress Yeul, and how Caius was her immortal Guardian until the last Yeul died in Noel's time period. Meeting the various Yeuls in the different eras they visit weighs on Noel, who had wanted to become the Guardian to the Yeul he knew in his time.
Yeul's soul is unable to return to the chaos of the unseen realm, and thus she is continually reincarnated with Caius as her eternal Guardian as "blessed" by Etro. Witnessing her death countless times has driven Caius mad and to yearn for the timeline's collapse to save Yeul from the cycle.
Caius is thus creating the paradoxes along the timeline to bring about the perfect conditions for him to let the chaos of the unseen realm consume the mortal realm.
Noel and Serah set out to stop him, even after they learn Serah also has the power of the seeress which eats away at her life with every vision she has, triggered by the changes in the timeline they make by solving the paradoxes. After Serah and Noel kill Caius in Valhalla, the timeline appears to be fixed.
Hope has built a New Cocoon to shelter mankind from the old one's collapse. However, as they return to the mortal realm, Serah dies from a vision as the future changes again.
Chaos erupts into Gran Pulse, permanently warping the world. Noel realizes they had played into Caius's scheme by destroying the Heart of Chaos, Etro's heart, and though the goddess died Caius himself is still alive, as he has been bound to the chaos.
Freed from Valhalla as the realm collapses, Lightning's hope for the future is renewed when the dying Serah's spirit assures her they will see each other again. Lightning enters crystal stasis to sleep as an indestructible epitaph waiting for a time she and Serah can be together. Final Fantasy XIII-2 has two novels that contain a series of stories from the perspectives of different characters. Toriyama has said that other than Lightning finding true happiness, the after-effects of Fang and Vanille's sacrifice on her and the other characters are another central theme in the game.
He has even compared the light and dark appearances of Lightning and Caius respectively to those of an angel and the devil, but warned not to jump to conclusions about which one is which. Toriyama has said that the traveling system has been completely redone since Final Fantasy XIII , as the team was trying to create a "truly living world, with lots of people living all the way to the far corners of the game".
The game is more fantasy-oriented as opposed to the futuristic feel of its predecessor. The game's general tone is darker and more mysterious, because the developers wanted to take the concept of death and extract features of the world of death to reflect them on the story and universe of Final Fantasy XIII The story of Final Fantasy XIII-2 also explores their relationship as sisters, and how they are similar yet different in their own ways. The soundtrack was released on December 14th, It includes the standard and limited edition.
Standard version soundtrack spans over four discs, while the limited edition has a bonus DVD packed with two trailers, the trailer shown at E3 Japanese voices version , and the game's Final Trailer Special Music Edition.
However, neither shall include "New World" by Jake Zyrus. The game features downloadable content in the form of downloadable outfits, weapons, accessories, scenarios, recruitable monsters and minigames. Yoshinori Kitase assures players that the content will allow for even longer play. The Steam version includes most of the DLC in its normal version, but some content that is DLC in the console versions is being omitted for licensing reasons, such as Noel's Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect -themed costumes.
It was soon found that the assets for said costumes were still in the PC files and could be unlocked but a patch released 22nd December removed the assets, potentially breaking the save files of people who had unlocked the costumes. Logo art by Yoshitaka Amano. Toriyama has said in an interview with Famitsu [10] the main reason they decided to make a sequel is that there was demand throughout the world and because the development staff wanted to portray Lightning's character further, to give her a clear conclusion.
Motomu Toriyama has said that Square Enix realized they needed to apply more Western technology and production techniques. The team conducted user tests and used the feedback to make adjustments to the gameplay and this process was started about a year earlier than what was done with Final Fantasy XIII. Both PlayStation 3 and Xbox versions of the game only need one disc. In an interview, director Motomu Toriyama said that the game has the same amount of volume as Final Fantasy XIII and the reason they're able to fit the game in less space this time is that the event scenes are real time rather than prerendered.
In addition to the Square Enix staff, tri-Ace staff were involved with the development of Final Fantasy XIII-2 , helping out on the game with aspects of game design, art and programming. Following player feedback on the linear, story-driven gameplay of Final Fantasy XIII , Final Fantasy XIII-2 focuses on player-driven gameplay with a more open world that players can explore widely, triggering events as they find them.
In all the different types of gameplay presented, the developers' goal has been to make the player the main focus and instigator, and the game design to promote the player progressing through the story rather than just passively watching.
The developers believed that the Paradigm Shift system was well received by the players who understood the system. They considered that the best they could do in one game was to have players master the basics of the battle.
From there, Director Motomu Toriyama felt they could allow greater flexibility and increase the strategic element, and thus they made the Paradigm Shift as the basis of the battle and had monsters join the party as allies. Final Fantasy XIII-2 uses different types of art styles and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo has said that even with the world reduced close to ruin after the events of Final Fantasy XIII , he was careful in expressing the serious tone of the story and the world when compared to the first game's beautiful but manufactured setting.
There are instances where the line is blurred because these characters are not meant to be hyper-realistic and have a mysterious appeal to them.
The characters were meant to be a mix between realism and fantasy.
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