Ok screechiibii. You basically tried to defend xiii-2 by using a mess of litttle bits of positive to make up for the bigger ones.
Characters: i like them because their unique appearance (which any character will have in FF) And unique weapons. Then you defend their personalities such as nnoel being kind hearted and not a cry baby but to me, that just dullens the character. Its why people hate zack for not really being that unique. Noel has no balance of good/bad qualities hes not that interesting and for him to be such a relevantt character? The last human being always throws me off. If it wsnone of the last, then it would sound reasonable. Overall he does have bad qualities, like Snow he also tries to be the hero in everything.
Time travel was included in the first final fantasy however it made sense in the first kne, this one just made u a story based on it but not really being relevant.
The setting of it is fantasy like and sc fi like just like its predessessor, however we still dont have a fricken clue what makes this a final fantasy xiii title. The series never holds balance and the jump between xiii and xiii-2 throws us off even more to believe any ff fan can like it.
I didn't use a mess of little bits - the reason I have certain things there and not others is because I was replying directly to the op, as those were the opinions he asked to be challenged on. There are many other reasons why I liked the game other than the ones I stated above. I never said I liked the characters because of their weapons or appearances, I simply refuted the opinions in the op, who stated their weapons were all the same and that they didn't look unique. I mentioned not being a crybaby because, again, it was a point made in the op.
How can a story based around time travel have time travel be irrelevant? All the time travel in the story was relevant to the plot, so I'm not sure what you mean by that, if you could explain I'd be happy to hear what you mean. I only mentioned games VII and above because I haven't played the ones before so couldn't comment on them. I honestly don't care about the jump from XIII to XIII-2 because I hate XIII. The fact that XIII-2 was so completely different was welcome for me. I do think that this title could have easily been an entirely new game in itself, and perhaps the plot even started out that way, but obviously they decided to link it to XIII and until the series (Returns) is finished we can't really say how well it all goes together because it isn't complete yet. I don't think that detracts from this game itself anyway, it may detract from the XIII franchise but as I said, I could care less. I will never touch XIII again and as far as I'm concerned XIII-2 is a game that's easily good enough to stand on its own.
I disagree about Noel wanting to be the hero. If he hadn't lived the life he had he wouldn't have wanted to be the one to save the world, he was the last human left, the only one who could do anything to change the fate of the world. It wasn't wanting to be a hero that made him go on the quest, it was wanting a life, not wanting everyone else in the world to die off. If he wanted to be a hero he would have killed Caius no problem from the beginning, to gain the power and be the hero, but he didn't want that, he didn't want to be a powerful hero, even in the end he just wanted a world where he wasn't alone. He wanted to protect the people he cared about, but who doesn't, so did Serah, so did Hope, so did Allyssa. When you care about someone you want them to be safe, that's not trying to be a hero. He's an incredibly relatable character imo which may be what makes him such a good one to me. All the way through the story I found myself wondering at how different he was to the usual heroes of FF, who tend to be brash and heroic. Noel is certainly more like a normal boy placed in incredible circumstances which makes his story all the more interesting to me.