Final Fantasy XIII

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Personally I didn't like Lightning though she improves over the course of the game. I thought it was a solid game that had amazing music and visuals(as usual for the FF games).

The story though...oh man the story was absolute wank. Horrible mess that just...I dunno. No joke or exaggeration. If you ask me about it, I wouldn't know what the hell to respond with. No idea what it was about. But the gameplay was what kept me going in it. I enjoyed the world enough to clock in around 100 hours despite the stupid story. The missions added a lot of replay-ability and was an overall fun game to play. I still love the soundtrack.

As for FFXIII2, both aren't even related. It's basically
"Lets take characters from this story we made and completely make a new story irrelevant to the previous, though add a few references and then publish it". It's not really needed to play the second and the story in the second is MUCH better.