Final Fantasy XIII-2 Endings Discussion!

13 February 2012

Posted by:Meg

Welcome to another Let’s Talk video with Meg, but beware! This video contains spoilers!

The ending of Final Fantasy XIII-2 is one helluva shocker and one that I would have never expected. In this video I will be reflecting on said ending and sharing my own thoughts and feelings.

If you haven’t played the game yet, turn back now! This discussion will ruin the experience for you.

If you have completed the game, take a look!

So what did you think of the ending? Was it what you expected? Have you discovered all of the Paradox endings? Perhaps you were displeased with the story direction in general? Please leave your comments and opinions in the section below!

Side note – all of the tracks playing in the background are from the official Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST composed jointly by Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Mitsuko Suzuki and Yoshitaka Suzuki, and purchased from Yesasia.com. The songs are (in the order they appear):

1. Ending Credits
2. Yeul’s Theme

Feel free to check out my Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Final Fantasy XIII reviews!

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http://www.facebook.com/dana.chilton Dana Chilton

I really enjoyed the game until the ending. This was the first FF game where the bad guys actually win. They took the happy ending from FF XIII and created a sequel just to kill off, not only every character we had grown to love, but the entire universe! All of the paradox endings were horrible so I’m hoping that future DLC will allow us to stop the goddess from dying and save the timeline and save the game from being one big downer.
Cylynt1

I play games like this to escape reality, not to be reminded of it’s harsh truth.
Valefor

After the disappointment of FF13 (which is probably just my opinion it was far too, ick) i was skeptic about this game, and would have put it at mediocre right up until the final battle. WOW
I actually didn’t think that Serah would die in the end, considering the last game completely eradicated the idea that anybody could die it was just too sappy.
What really shocked me to the point of literally covering my mouth with my hand was the vision of Valhala over Academia. Then I realised all along that Academia IS Valhala (just my opinion), totoally shocked.

It appeared to be all one big loop in the end, a paradox in itself ;P
Jack Frost

Just thought I’d add my two cents here. I see a lot of complaining about having to buy more dlc for the ending, and I just want to say that if the game did end where serah dies, I would have been satisfied, it was shocking, a predicted twist and yet still effective. Basically the future dlc will be just what it has always been. Extra content. All we are doing is pushing the story forward. Not all stories have a happy ending.

- Jack Frost
Jack Frost

just replying to the first part of your comment, Lighting promised to protect the throne of etro, not the goddess herself, Etro had merged with Caius and therefore was unable to protect Valhalla. Etro entered Caius to give him the power to protect Yeul, being unable to do so, Caius decides to find a way to destroy Etro and release himself from being Yeuls guardian and watching her die constantly. So he plans to get Noel involved, knowing full well, that Noel would complete the duty without hesitation if he was forced in to it,
Pie

Right! So I’ve just finished the game and I find the endings of FFXIII-2 extremely disturbing. I thus really need someone to talk to. Thanks for the video.

Btw, I’m not gonna go for intensive FFXIII-2 endings discussion myself because I’m still confused there are so many wonders. Moreover, there are new vocabularies in FFXIII-2 there had never been mentioned
before…like…”Etro”, “the Goddess”, “Seerees” that are diffent from FFXIII (“Fal Cie, Cie’th, L’Cie Focus etc.”) and
they are really difficult to understand, too. In this long comment, I intend to say that FFXIII is perfect in itself.

First, I honestly think that, actually, FFXIII (NOT XIII-2) endings is absolutely perfect itself. Everyone followed Serah’s instruction and completed their Focus by managing to save Cocoon, waking up from the crystal statsis. Then I thought Cocoonian and the Lighting were supposed to make a living on the Pulse instead.

However, I thought THE REAL ENDINGS OF FFXIII was a short movie at the beginning of the game (before the title menu) It is depicted that Vanille was alone , standing on Gran Pulse and watched Cocoon from afar. What does it mean? Is it before or after she turned into crystal? I would go for the latter. I intepret that eventually, everyone in FFXIII would have died before Vanille and Fang woke up from their crystal stasis and live on Gran Pulse (just like the endings of FFVII that depicted REDXIII runing along with his puppy when Midgar had already been a ruined where there was no one left) In my opinion, Vanille is a very important figure because she is the one who narrates the whole story of FFXIII just before she completed her 2nd Focus.

Here come to FFXIII-2, unfortunately,I couldn’t avoid starting the game with my personal bias. I think that, besides the story I’ve intepreted so far, SQ-ENIX wanted to make FFXIII-2 to ask players like us for another chance to improve the overall system of the game that had been criticized, you name it, like….the whole FFXIII game was linear map that you just move forward, blah blah blah.(I really appreciated the story of FFXIII, don’t get me wrong). The link between FFXIII and FFXIII-2 endings are not very good.

Here a very short opinion about the endings: (I’m still confused, shocked, blah blah blah)
I personally think that the whole FFXIII-2 is like…..”another version” or “what if”of FFXIII ending
Anyway, to me, the beginning of FFXIII-2 sounds like the journey of Serah and Noel to meet Lighting and the real endings does not go that way. Instead, I think Serah and Lighting (in the crystal) died just because, , unlike Noel who was comtemporary to the period, they are not actually belong to the time in dying Vahalla in the first place(Am I wrong?). So they traveled to the future where there are neither Serah nor Lighting?

At first sight, there is something wrong about the ending that I can quickly make notice is that Noel does not go back to the place where he’s supposed to be, just like Serah and the otheres. Everythings mess up.

Oh, and one more thing, though this might not be ‘the main story’ of FFXIII, based on my personal interested in romance, I find the romance between Snow and Serah in FFXIII-2 not so rich like before. Instead, I got a vague comprehension that Serah is actually Yeul, the love interest of Noel. The romance is messed up! Basically, though I find the romance between Serah(Or Yeul) and Noel is so interesting, fresh and hot, whatever, Serah is supposed to be with Snow, he tried damn hard to help her in FFXIII.

FFXIII-2, the darkest FF series ever I’ve ever played since the FFVII

(TwT*) I would be grateful, I need to have someone reply my post here, anything is alright. English is not my mother tongue, but I really try to convey as much as possible about what I think.

Thanks for this good article.