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144https://rpgfanatics.com Final Fantasy XIII-2 (ファイナルファンタジーXIII-2 Fainaru Fantajī Sātīn Tsū?) is a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Released in 2011 in Japan and 2012 in North America and PAL regions, it is a direct sequel to the 2010 role-playing game, Final Fantasy XIII, and is part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis subseries. XIII-2 includes modified features from the previous game, including fast-paced combat and a customizable "Paradigm" system to control which abilities are used by the characters, and adds a new system that allows monsters to be captured and used in battle. It features a heavy time travel element, allowing the player to jump between different times at the same location or different places at the same time. Lightning, the protagonist of the original game, has disappeared into an unknown world. Her younger sister Serah Farron, a returning character, and a young man named Noel Kreiss, journey through time in an attempt to find Lightning. Monsters do not freely roam the map like in Final Fantasy XI to XIII, but instead, they randomly appear as in the first ten main-series Final Fantasy games. Unlike in Final Fantasy XIII, the player cannot summon the Eidolons, as the giant creatures were only available to the protagonists of that game.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 received highly positive reviews from Japanese critics and generally positive reviews from Western video game journalists. Though praised for its gameplay, lack of linearity, and graphics, the game's story was criticized as weak and confusing. During the first week of sales in Japan, the game sold 524,000 units, becoming the fifth-best selling game of 2011 in Japan, and sold 3 million copies worldwide by January 2013. A sequel, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, is in development and will be released in November 2013 in Japan and February 2014 in North America and Europe. The Crystarium is a leveling and growth system, making a return from Final Fantasy XIII in an altered form. The system consists of constellation-style representations of the character's weapons and tamed monsters, made up of small and large crystal nodes, which can be accessed from the start of the game.
About my ranking system:
There are 10 categories, each representing an area of the game's content.
A 10 point award means the area is well done, a 5 point award means it is passable but could have been better, and a 1 point award means it was done very poorly.
All points are added up at the end, to determine how many total points the game has earned. There are a total of 100 points which can be earned.
This system is designed to perfectly synchronize with GameRankings and Metacritic; which is awfully important these days. Other websites like IGN and Gamespot have problems trying to get their grade systems to synchronize with these meta review sites because they don't use a system that goes from 1 to 100. It is true my system won't go below a 10, but a 10% may as well be a 0%.
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From the publisher, Square-Enix :
Three years after the events in FINAL FANTASY XIII, Lightning has gone missing, and Snow is nowhere to be found. In a rebuilding world, Serah notices that something is amiss. After a fortuitous encounter with a mysterious man named Noel, the two set off to find Lightning.
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