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This game is really reinvigorating my love of Lightning. SMFFFC, watch out!

Mobilezoid posted...

My memories of this game aren't perfect, but was this chaos beast a big dragon? I remember fighting one near the beginning and dying to it over and over, but then again I struggled to get the hang of the combat system and you seem to be doing fine.

Yeah I think that's the one. I tried it once and died so I'm leaving it til later. I'm certainly not an expert in the combat system yet lol, I got to the Noel fight today and spent quite some time getting through it. I meant to ask about the monsters being finite as you said earlier, they seem to respawn and I can get a few good abilities from them (got Deshell and Deprotect from the randoms before the Noel fight which helped there), how finite are they if you (or anyone else) know? I'm running past most random encounters but taking a few on in each area might not be a bad idea if they can give me good drops.

As for the plot, I completely forgot Yeul existed, oops. Noel flips a switch and becomes rational again immediately post-battle. He acknowledges how ridiculous his reasoning for killing Light was, so that offsets the slightly weird writing there somewhat. Lumina continues to intrigue, I'm enjoying her more than I first expected to. Light's pre-fight discussion with Noel was very good on her end, she talks about herself like she doesn't know (or like) what she is anymore. Her characterisation here is so much better than in XIII-2, thank god.

We sneak in a sidequest at the cathedral before Day 2 ends, and meet Vanille! Woo, Vanille! She's in the hands of the shady order and is worryingly friendly with Lumina, but seems to know what she's doing. Maybe. I'm a bit worried about her, but the way these scenes play out I assume we'll be coming back here for the endgame and she'll have more to do then. Fang better have a damn good reason for leaving her behind though!