LogFAQs > #977584137

I started a XIII trilogy replay to keep pace w/ BCT's topic and then I never did and tonight I finished Lightning Returns. Timer on final save was 109 hours 54 minutes so definitely 110+ considering restarts. All three game replays probably topping 250 hours, geez. Now gotta start putting this time to the backlog of never-played games before the inevitable February 7R replay leading up to February 29...

LR > XIII > XIII-2 hierarchy remains intact though XIII level design was a lot worse than I remember. Maybe an extra ">" in each of those two equivalencies, tbh.

Read through the topic and yeah, everything basically lines up with what I was thinking/feeling. Not sure I agree with the game not having very good writing, I think it could be a mix of some info still not being relayed yet (for plot purposes), but also maybe some more helpful info being dumped in the datalogs. Neither of the next two games have that issue, at least.

re: Raines boss fight, it messed me up bad in my replay too, I forget if I gave in and just threw a Sentinel in there, or if I figured it out some other way (or got lucky). But if you can get past him (and a little more) you get to what is my favourite part of the whole trilogy so hang in there!!!