Final Fantasy XIII-2

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Plattform: PC Release: 03.02.2012

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Jenseits der Zeit, des Schicksals und aller Vorstellungskraft Das Konsolendebüt von FINAL FANTASY in HD verfügt nun über einen Nachfolger. FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 wurde mit dem Ziel entwickelt, die Qualität seines Vorgängers in jeder Hinsicht zu übertreffen.

Zusätzlich zu den neuen Gameplay-Systemen sowie der innovativen Grafik und Soundkulisse kannst du aus einer Vielzahl von Entscheidungen wählen, die nicht nur deine Umgebung, sondern auch Zeit und Raum beeinflusse! Es geht nicht mehr darum, sich seinem Schicksal zu stellen. Gestalte deine eigene Zukunft und verändere die Welt!

Gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden hat Lightning die seit Jahrhunderten regierenden falschen Götter besiegt. Doch jetzt ist sie unauffindbar. Niemand weiß, wohin die tapfere Kriegerin verschwunden ist...
Auch der gefundene Friede scheint nur von kurzer Dauer. Nach dem Einschlag eines Meteoriten tauchen seltsame Verzerrungen auf, die blutrünstige Monster mit sich bringen. Inmitten dieses Chaos erscheint ein geheimnisvoller junger Mann. Er behauptet nicht nur, aus der Zukunft zu kommen, sondern auch, dass Lightning lebt - und wartet.

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283 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.02.22 07:22

Unspielbar, dank ständiger Abstürze.

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2599 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.02.20 03:24

Please fix this game SE

To anyone interested buying, it is possible to get this game working if you are comfortable patching in fixes manually. Thanks to the hard work of the community, fans have made it possible to play this on PC again.
Even with the fixes I have had 2 crashes so far, one of them requiring a reboot of the computer to be able to launch again. Luckily the game is fairly generous with its autosave and I didnt lose significant progress either time.

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812 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.02.20 11:18

Game is too technical. Has too much random back tracking and you wouldn't know where to go without a guide. I hate the whole time travel gimmick. I can't be motivated to finish the game even with a walkthrough.

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7517 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.02.20 01:47

Be sure to turn Steam Cloud Saving OFF. It tends to crash the game.
Overall a great game!

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2052 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.03.20 02:55

The best game out if the 13 series

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1650 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.03.20 19:43

This game is very polarizing for me. I gave it a thumbs up, but it's borderline. Where do I start? I guess the first place to start is with your main characters. Rather than following the heroes from the first game, you're stuck with the wallflower Serah and a new face, Noel. That's it. No additions to your party members, no changes to your roster. You're stuck with these two for the entire ordeal. This wouldn't be a problem if they had some personality, but they're sadly about as bland as cheap rice crackers.

The combat system is recycled from the first game. The first problem some of you might've noticed is that this really doesn't work well with only two members in your team, so who gets to fill the third slot? Serah, lacking any kind of prior combat experience, inexplicably gains the power to recruit monsters to the team and becomes an instant warrioress the instant she's given a bow. To match her new combat prowess her outfit is magically transformed overnight as well. Because, why not?

Okay, so the characters are a boring and the combat has become Pokemon lite-edition but surely the storyline keeps things ticking right? Wrong. The storyline is a mess. Instead of a continuation of the original, we get time travel. This basically gave SE free rein to destroy established canon whenever they wanted since rewriting history is basically the entire plot of the game.

During some parts of the game you can choose dialogue options to get some exposition and ask questions. These don't really do much, although you're rewarded with items based on your responses. I personally hate Noel, so lamented the fact that none of the choices allowed me to treat him with the contempt he deserved. Noel acting almost like a love rival for Snow doesn't help to make him very likeable either, and you're stuck with him for the whole game.

Okay, so it sounds like a rather scathing review all said and told, so why the thumbs up? Simply because when you set aside the plot and the characters, you get to the gameplay and it actually does this well. The monster system, while ridiculous, is actually well fleshed out and meaningful. Each one can be levelled individually and you can even customize their appearance thanks to 'adornments'. The areas are lively and interesting and as dumb as throwing a moogle sounds, it adds a mechanic which allows you to collect distant items which enables Square-Enix to hide secrets around the maps.

The gameplay is actually really GOOD, and that's why it deserves a thumbs up even if the overall plot and characters are less than stellar. Also, throwing a moogle into Noel's face at full force is surprisingly theraputic sometimes.

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1329 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.02.20 03:52

The game that starts off a fun promising romp though time, and ends with the writers suddenly taking a huge dump, seemingly just to hype the next game. Storywise nothing that happens really makes any sense, increasingly so as it progresses, and at the end I'm facepalming and suspending belief over and over again just to finish the story.

The combat system is a decent improvement over XIII if you like pet collecting mechanics.

I thought it was a super disappointing game, I'll think hard before playing any more newer final fantasy titles. And the PC port is hot garbage, you'll spend ~2 hours just fixing all the bugs to make it playable.

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1817 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.12.19 03:02

TURN OFF AUTOMATIC SAVE TO STEAM CLOUD IN PROPERTIES.

Enjoy :)

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6059 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.01.20 02:48

A good sequel to XIII!

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463 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.01.20 04:10

After an hour of troubleshooting I managed to get past the tutorial. I had to disable the cloud sync and download the 4GB patch (look it up). From reading others reports it seems with each windows update it gets worse but now mine is totally playable. Would recc if you don't mind going through the hassle, sad the game is literally unplayable w/o the user fixing it.

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2172 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.01.20 02:15

Short review: Didn't like story as much as 13 but I liked Noel a lot. Gameplay features a ton of improvements that I love and overworld exploration is greatly improved. Good pacing and was just a really fun game. If you played through 13 and weren't the biggest fan, I would recommend checking this out.

PORT QUALITY: It's really bad but just do like 10 minutes of google (I know you shouldn't have to do that but it's not that hard) and I got pretty near on par performance of the original 13 except some occasional framerate drops and not great performance in demanding areas. Game was more than playable though on an i5-6600K and RX480. ALSO you can easily patch in DLC costumes that are missing due to licensing.

Also the music slaps hard like 13, but in it's own way.

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97 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.04.20 06:30

Crashes on start. And doesn't just crash itself, crashes the entire Steam application. Disabling cloud saving does not fix the problem.

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1383 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.04.20 09:28

Sadly to say, out of my whole life, this is THY worst PC Port ever. Don't even try spending your money on this EVEN if it goes on special, not even worth a dollar.

Many fixes to do with no success.

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678 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.04.20 02:29

This game crashes every 5 minutes?

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373 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.04.20 06:44

FIX THE CRASH PROBLEM!!!I PAY FOR PLAY NOT PAY FOR FIX IT MYSELF WITH THOSE DOWNLOAD $GB PATCH OR DISABLE STEAM CLOUD SAVE!!!

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538 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.04.20 05:53

This game has a lot of issues. It has been freezing and crashing when you go to save.

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129 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.04.20 22:57

i do not recommend you buying this game, this game has crash on me many times in the first early on parts of the game i cant even get pass the first part of the game when i have noel with me. please make a fixed patch for this. if you really wanna play this play it on xbox or ps3 or something save you the effort. Until a patch comes out for this i wont play it no more 20$ wasted sadly.

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2170 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.04.20 21:35

Fantastic improvement over FFXIII! This game is actually fun! FFXIII was poorly executed and one big steaming pile of no-fun. FXIII-2 gets a 'no' recommendation because it's beyond shameful that Square Enix relies on users downloading the community released 4GB patch to keep the game from crashing (As of April, 2020).

Outside of that, the game importantly addresses every single issue I had with FFXIII. And there were a lot! Battles no longer feel like tedious filler. Maps feel more organic and less linear. The game overall is less linear. Load times are better. Although not quite as epic, the story is told better. Leveling system is way better across the board. There's probably more improvements I can't recall as I'm trying to suppress my memories of FFXIII. If interested, you can read my review of FFXIII with the understanding that everything I hated about FFXIII is actually done well in FFXIII-2.

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297 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.04.20 18:21

One of the worst PC ports imaginable, stay far away. The game is alright and a huge improvement on what almost worked in the first game but still only just okay

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59 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.03.20 02:53

SO the Game is awesome and the story is great, But that being said there is a few things that you need to do to get the game up and running

- Download 4 GB patch
- Patch ffxiii2img.exe [steamappscommonFINAL FANTASY XIII-2alba_dataprogwinin]
- Right Click on exe above and go to properties
- Turn on Windows 7 Cap
- Turn off full screen opt
- Run as admin
- Disable Cloud Saves

once that is done enjoy the game!

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2821 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.05.20 19:02

It's pretty good when you have fanmade patches

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151 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.06.20 20:35

i bought a ps3 so i could actually play this game

this port blows

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861 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.06.20 14:50

what can i say about this...
it has its ups and it has its downs. IMO the original was much better, but this one is still a great game.
there is a lot of good changes and a lot of bad, combat is more fluid in this one which is great and the fact you can capture the monsters and use them in your team is the best thing ever. the story is still amazing which is great. the problems are they have added quick time events which are just annoying and unnecessary. when you've played it so much like i have when it 1st came out and don't want to watch the scenes anymore, its annoying you cant skip most of them because of the quick time events. plus they have added a bunch of puzzles and quiz's into the game just to make it take longer to collect all the fragments. when your a 100%er its just time consuming trying to do it all and the game would of been better without. also in the original you would auto jump up obstacles and now you have to press a button to climb up stuff which is just irritating when you've spent over 100 hours on the 1st one.
combat 8/10
story 10/10
visuals 7/10
overall i would say if you love final fantasy game its worth a play if you have played the prequel.
without the game will be confusing and not worth it, if you see it on sale grab it.

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2884 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.05.20 20:26

Interesting story and good gameplay. Buggy, but works okay if you're good with mods.

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13 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.05.20 04:40

Unplayable

- The game is stuttering, you can not set any graphic settings other than resolution, shadow and anti aliasing (my system is RX480, 16gb mem, i7-4771
Even lowest settings does not change a thing.

- Standard keyboard settings (you can not set the keys yourself, I like to play with numpad)

Buy at your own risk!

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19 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.05.20 00:33

Poor optimization, haven't experience crashes but it is not as good as XIII. Don't get me wrong here I love every other FF franchise but this is just not for me. Had a lot of trouble just to get it to go in fullscreen. SE needs to fix their lazy ports.

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2657 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.05.20 19:59

I wasn't a fan of this particular episode of FF for two reasons.

Firstly, the PC version is really buggy - frequent crashes with loss of progress, sound issues (couldn't play through a headset without a loud buzzing) and resolution problems. Ended up downloading a patch (not from the developers) to fix the crashing but still, shouldn't happen.

Secondly, I found the story really haphazard. Without ruining it, lots of jumping around different locations, so much so that it got difficult to keep track of the story. One of the reasons I enjoy the FF series is that they're typically pretty linear, which makes a nice change from the other more open world RPGs that I play. I didn't have that experience with this game.

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273 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.06.20 01:41

Way too buggy. White rain needs fixed. Horrible port can't play.

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2563 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.06.20 19:00

???? - 1 star

You've probably played FF13 thinking you want to play this next. I'd advice that you should be satisfied with FF13's ending. This will take you on a roller coaster ride you probably don't want to get into. Then again, if you're really bored, have time, and an FF fan; have at it. There's nothing wrong playing this, just that other games exist that might be worth more your time.

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3720 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.07.20 06:32

Before everything, I'd like to say I won't consider the quality of the port in my rating but only how good the game is.

Talking about the port it is bad, garbage even, and it is a shame that a company as big as Square Enix allow such port, and show that they do not care much about their PC players since they never bothered to fix any of those problems.

Most problems can be solved by a fan patch and steam cloud turned off as the game crash if the cloud is on.

Now that we're done talking about how crap the port is I can tell my opinion on the game itself.

8/10.

I have to say I wasn't expecting much playing this game after playing the first one that I heavily disliked but to my surprise this game was actually better in many ways, it fix most of the problems of the first game even the famous linearity problem that was never a problem to begin with imo.

You do not necessarily need to play the first game in order to understand the second one, there is a menu called beginner's guide that sum up the entirity of the first game, BUT I think you'll enjoy more the second one if you play the first one first, for obvious reasons, a lot of the characters in the second game are returning characters from the first one you'll be more emotionally invested in the game if you play the first one before, even if you don't like those characters, the two protagonists are new tho (half new in Serah's case).

The story that was one of my biggest complain about the first game and is now quite good actually, it was enjoyable, maybe a bit too much sometimes, but really, I liked the journey it was definitely interesting, also there is finally a memorable villain character in the game, and I enjoyed it, the two mains characters aren't awful either, Serah isn't the most interesting but I found Noel quite good and the mystery around him is definitely a big part of why the game is good.

The gameplay is very similar to the first game, they fixed the gameover if your main character die which help a lot to not be frustrated, the game is easier aswell which might not be the best for everyone, and they added a monster taming part in the game that while not awful didn't really interest me that much, the monster variety in the game isn't it's strong point and the monster design is lacking, it is necessary to have good monsters to progress as they often have things that Serah and Noel tend to lack, it isn't necessary to grind much to have good enough monsters tho, truth be told I only had to get better one before the last chapter.

The soundtracks has some nice tracks and some awful one, the crazy chocobo song for example I do not know who thought it was a nice idea, but it definitely wasn't, some other tracks are nice and I'd say I prefer the soundtrack of the second game compared to the first.

The level design is million times better as well, the levels are less greyish and much more enjoyable, I had a huge problems with the maps of the first game, I enjoyed a lot those of this one except one of the last map that you'll have the pleasure to see if you play the game.

There is more post game content than the first game but it's shorter, less running around, less need to be grinding to be able to defeat monsters and again a way less difficult game, you need less strategy to do the bosses which is probably a worse thing, it doesn't push the fighting system as much as the first game does but I'd say overall it's better again you have different task to do, many ways to do, you collect fragment to complete the game, you xp with each of them, you have mini games and a casino, there are cities and it feels like there is life unlike the first game again where you only fight from the beginning to the end and there is no soul to be seen.

The DLC aren't good, don't expect anything great out of them, maybe the colisseum actually have it's use since it can add a challenge later on in the game with strong memorable bosses and long fights, you can eventually collect some powerful monsters with it too, but since you're done with the game after it whats the point ? The two others dlc aren't worth much, the Lightning story was a pain in the ass for me to do, it was really uninteresting but I did it for the story sake, it felt like a chore, and you have to die and retry to be able to succeed in it, or maybe if you're good enough you can find a challenge in it, but thats pushing it heavily.

Sazh's dlc is about minigames and isn't very interesting either, I guess it's nice for a change of pace sometimes but you unlock it after the ending of the game, and the story is very barebone in it, I wouldn't call it a nice dlc, not at all.

Overall I'd say 2/10 for the DLC and thats only cause the colisseum is pushing them up.

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4406 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.08.20 20:24

Good game, if you can get past the rather poor technical performance of the game.
Story is rather interesting. Introduces some fun new mechanics into the series.

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5099 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.07.20 00:11

30 hours of gameplay was just trying to get the serendipitous achievement

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323 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.07.20 20:12

i cant play all time crash

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63 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.07.20 01:03

I love 13-2 but this port is bad. Randomly crashes + has performance issues

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2478 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.07.20 12:32

biased review incoming:
It's not the best final fantasy and it's far from decent too. The story is a convoluted mess and characters are super clichéd.

The xiii trilogy is super cheesy but I enjoyed it for that. Well I may be a little biased in this review because I started FFXIII when I was in a hard time and it held a special place in my heart so I can't bring myself to bad-mouth this entry.

Cons:
- crash too much, need a fan patch
- it just doesn't feel good to play it
- messy story, clichéd character
- pretty much everything

Pros:
- soundtrack is bomb
- cheesy lines actually makes the world a better place to live in

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64 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.07.20 01:22

If you're thinking about buying this game, don't. If you really want to buy something, get winRAR instead, better scenario, and less cringy characters.

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1327 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.05.20 13:11

After Install The patch fix from modder
and this tutorial
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2038838545

I think the game now on good state now...
And For Square enix...I hope that if you release FF7Remake
Please listen to community on Steam...
why modder is still better fix your game better on your company
i think you had to evaluate your PC port team

but overall the game is good, but for port no if no modder

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3429 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.05.20 06:36

A much more non-linear game than part 1, it starts out lacking a bit of direction. However, if you enjoyed the first installment -- for the story, the characters, the music -- then do keep going. Around half-way, things really pick up. The game has possibly the best writing I've seen for a time-travel story, and wonderfully expands on the universe established in XIII.

Two technical notes:
* For those experiencing crashing, you can disable steam cloud for this game.
* For those experiencing low frame-rate on NVIDIA cards (I'm on a GTX 1070 Ti), you can enable the following three settings in the latest NVIDIA drivers to speed up the FFXIII renderer: (i) Threaded Optimization:On, (ii) Triple Buffering:On, and (iii) Vertical Sync:Fast.

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2366 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.09.20 17:51

my favorite final fantasy

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431 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.09.20 09:10

Serah has a swimsuit outfit.

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3734 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.08.20 22:29

I love this game. The story and game play all fit in well within the FF13 universe. There are countless reviews and even Wikipedia to help you determine the value of the story. But as a 25+ year player of virtually every FF, I personally thought this entry was great.

Your purchase should hinge on the quality of the port. 5 years ago, I'd have told you to not buy it. thanks to some astonishingly talented fans, 2020 is the perfect time to finally play this game. Check the Community section in Steam for this game, and look for the 2020 fix guide. If you know how to unzip a compressed file, you can fix this game and play it in glorious 4k 60fps. It's about as easy as it gets when it comes to fan-made mods to fix PC ports. Currently working on my 2nd playthrough since 2016 and I'm enjoying it SO much more with these fan fixes. have a great day.

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264 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.07.20 23:31

I love this game, but this is a terrible port. Most of the three hours I have played so far have been the opening sequence because of how frequently this crashed, plus me trying to figure out and testing out fixes. If you are willing to go out of your way to find fixes and patches for this game, then you might enjoy this. If you prefer to buy a game and just play it, then this is definitely not for you. For those that are willing to patch this game to make it work, this is the best guide I have found and implemented to make it work: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2038838545

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2253 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.07.20 04:13

There is NO Support for this game! NONE whatsoever! It crashes if the resolution setting is changed to any option other than the preset one. So if you have a high resolution monitor, the graphics looks horrible. The previous game Final Fantasy 13 had the option of using a controller and the applications in the game would change to match, however Final Fantasy XIII-2 does not have this feature, although you can use a controller to play the game the settings are set for keyboard which messes up gameplay. It crashes way to often! this port was poorly done please please please provide support! If you're able to overcome the constant crashing the game overall seems to be poorly put together. Its like the developers decided to go a completley different route compared to the first Final Fantasy XIII and do what they can to make it as non linear as possible.

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72 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.07.20 09:20

I bought this game to adapt my Final Fantasy collection. Graphic and game play are really beautyful from my point of vie - BUT - the biggest issue now is that you cannot see very much of it as the game keeps crashing immeadetly without reason and error message. This is so bad. I uninstalled the steam version now and installed a version without steam which worked, after playing the first 3 hours, without any interruption or crash, even with highes settings.

I reccomend this game very much, but I don´t recommend the Steam version in this case - Sorry STEAM

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203 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.10.20 13:45

It crashes way too often.

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275 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.09.20 17:33

broken mess

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3354 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.10.20 16:34

This was... interesting.
Strange choices were made for FFXIII-2... and given how unpopular the opinions I heard of XIII were over here, I'm kinda surprised it got a sequel in the first place.

I didn't like this one. It was a close thing. The gameplay was mostly fine. It was just let down by the story elements.
Arguably it is necessary for the trilogy as a whole... since things happen... but... well...

I get a bit bothered when fiction starts playing around with vast spans of time a bit too casually without really exploring the necessary consequences of bouncing back and forth hundreds of years. Not to go into too much detail... but the plot of FFXIII-2 is a complete mess. There are holes EVERYWHERE that never get even close to patched. The whole thing is a sequence of bad choices and... honestly... the entire game is a waste.
I suppose this is a bit spoily to mention, but the main characters completely fail to achieve anything throughout the course of their journey. It really was a complete waste of time... to the extent that it being such is actually lampshaded in the 3rd game.
Things change, but they're all achieved by the antagonists. And would be so without any need for any playable characters doing anything. You could spend the entire game just sitting around staring at trees and going nowhere and the outcome would ultimately be the same.

Still... you do actually need to know what happened between XIII and LR to make sense of the latter, so I suppose there is that.

Oh, and some of the music in this game was neat. They were very experimental with it. Some of the music was awful and, as noted, some was neat. I'm talking about the Crazy Chocobo, as I'm sure you guessed.

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1604 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.10.20 14:38

One of my childhood favorite games amongst the final fantasy games. I remember playing this game to near completion at one point.

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1281 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.10.20 15:38

The PC port is bad, however it's easily fixable through community patches and works perfectly fine. If you're worried about getting this on PC or console. Just get the PC version and follow a Patch guide

Story-wise the sequel was a mess due to it messing around with time, time travel and timeline changes. This does have better combat than the original and a lot more easier enemies, an amazing soundtrack that is doubled when you are in the Mog Clock mode and IMO is a great sequel, not to mention a ton of replayability with the rare enemies and trying to capture every monster.

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3532 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.10.20 18:13

if only if it wasnt for the low quality fmv's and the crash's.
By far the best FFXIII game.

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385 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.10.20 03:10

I just want to put this out there.

I hated the original ff13. Easily my least favorite game in the series up to this point. For years I have put off playing this game because of how bad of a time I had in the original game.

I started playing here.... and then the game crashed. Never fear, though! I looked up a guide to get this game running as smoothly as possible! Then, the game still crashed, albeit, not as much.

After I got things running stabely enough.... the game was actually... fun? Story is already better imo and the combat opens from the get go so there is much more to do at the start. This is especially useful as the story isn't exactly the best.

At about the six hour point, I have still had a multitude of crashes. I decided to throw in the towel.

I might pick up this game for around 5 dollars on a sale and play it through xbox backwards compatibility or something. As is, this PC port is horrendous in just about everyway. Crashes so much even when you follow guides to prevent it.

TLDR: game is good up till the six hour point, but PC port is trash. Pick up this game elsewhere.

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301 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.09.20 17:44

This game only crashes! DO NOT buy it. Square Enix or steam will never fixt it.

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87 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.11.20 21:53

Yeah, it's good.
The main problem is that you need to play XIII first and ends on a cliffhanger.

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4201 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.11.20 13:14

Final Fantasy 13 2 continues the Square-Enix’s run of terrible ports, with this one being worse than Final Fantasy 13’s which I didn’t think was possible. This time around it not just bad porting (buttons are hard mapped to the keyboard even when using a controller, have to use keyboard to exit game) that you have to worry about, there are also ground breaking bugs that cause constant crashes to the desktop to deal with if you don’t perform a few google searches first. This is a crying shame, as being the direct sequel to FF13 it boasts much improved game mechanics, a more focused story with characters that are enjoyable to follow, less character management and an easier crafting system. It’s a great game to play, marred by the fact that it was ported in the last 5 years and still being riddled with game breaking bugs that require a few fixes to make things workable.

You don’t need to play the previous entry to get a rough catch up of previous events (there is a very quick review available in the main menu), however you would be doing yourself a major disservice by not finishing the first entry before starting this one. The game starts during the previous games ending, and focuses on quickly introducing a raft of new background lore which drives the entire story. Without spoiling the story, Sarah (Lightning’s sister) and Noel (a human from 700 years in the future) embark on a time traveling journey to bring lightning back to existence and resolve a host of time paradoxes as she has been written out of reality due to someone trying to change the events of the past. The first ½ hour is confusing, but unlike the previous game it gets much clearer after that and stays enjoyable right to the end. I loved the concept of the future changing the past (so it aligns with the past, preventing grandfather paradoxes) which is something that’s not often explored in games that deal with time. Because the game only focuses on Sarah and Noel, the story isn’t anywhere as disjointed as the previous entry.

This also translates into much improved gameplay as you are only focusing on 2 characters that are always in the party, with the third slot being monsters you can capture and raise which is the biggest change compared to the previous entry. Each monster is locked to its class, but can have other monsters infused into it to get abilities it wouldn’t usually be able to receive. While you can ignore this function in the game if you want (just levelling up the 3 monsters you can have in your team at the same time is enough to finish the game), this system does allow you to create some outrageous combos that truly buff your team. Also upgrading characters is much easier with a singular job tree rather than a separate 6 to manage, with CP being much easier to come by (there isn’t a need to grind in this game). Bonuses when levelling up jobs are locked to extra strength, magic or life, and are applied based on each crystal size (the bigger crystals give more, and the bonuses differ based on what class is upgraded). This makes it quite easy to plan ahead to make the characters much stronger than what they would be if you just dump points randomly. Monsters are fed other monster drops to upgrade a set stat. It also removed the annoying crafting system of the first game, a weapons strength and magic are now fixed. While the jobs stay the same as FF13, you unlock all jobs fairly early in the game so you get a lot more use out of the paradigm system.

After the previous games linear path, FF13 2 is mostly a free for all, go anywhere you want affair. The story is structured around resolving time paradoxes that have arisen, but there are a ton of side quests and different time periods that are available to explore. To open a lot of these side areas you are required to thoroughly explore each area and complete side quests, many which span across different time lines. Many of the objects are hidden exceedingly well, you could spend hours looking so using a guide might be recommended for some quests or exploring some areas. There are a few quests that require in-depth knowledge of not only this game, but the previous entry that require a guide to finish. You also have the option of go to a casino and play on the slots or chocobo racing to mix things up.

Visually the looks great much like its predecessor, though there are less areas to explore. Because the game revolves around visiting the same areas in different times (or alternate realities) each area can look different, but it cuts down on the total amount of areas to explore. This game is set entirely on Gran-Pulse, with some new cities and places outside the flow of time. Each area can be revisited at any point (with main story events being replayed from the start or continuing from where you previously left an area), though each area/time will contain many secrets and different enemies. Most of the assets have been reused from the previous games, with only a few newer characters being introduced. You now have the option of changing your outfit and adding accessories. There are plenty of in game movie sequences, however they don’t outstay their welcome and do propel the story forward. To mix things up there are a lot of QTE events during battles and movie sequences, which can help you end fights quicker if you succeed in them.

The voice acting is still excellent, though they dropped the Australian accents of the people of pulse- (Fang and Vanille still have their accents). Having the previous characters play bit roles wasn’t too bad, and the scripts for them were a lot better this time around. There is a lot less whingeing and crying this time around by Hope, as well as a lot less angst by the remaining cast, which makes it much more enjoyable to listen to. The music is outstanding, with a mix of full vocal as well as different styles. There is one heavy metal fight song (it reminds me of DMC series), as well as a wild chocobo which I will miss listening to.

As mentioned before the bugs are ground breaking, but can be fixed. Without doing anything I found the game constantly crashed when changing camera views (which happens at the end of battle). I fixed this by running a 3rd party patch which increases the amount of RAM it can use. This stopped the crashes, but sometimes enemies wouldn’t display. I had to turn off Steam cloud saves to resolve that, and the game has been fine since. You shouldn’t have to put up with these errors for a AAA release, but at least you can fix them.

The 3 DLC’s are included and explain what Snow, Lightning and Sazh are doing. All 3 become available after the main game is finished and reward you with extra monster summons (in the shape of the listed characters or other well know characters from the FF series. I would only bother with the lightning one, as it’s a canonical ending, taking a few hours to finish the fight. Sazh’s one has you focusing on playing poker, while Snow has you fighting in the coliseum against some well know characters from other FF games..

If you are wanting to 100% the game, it’s a much easier task this time around. You level up much quicker, and only a few of the fights right at the end will prove to be difficult with a fully upgraded party. One quests will require fighting one enemy at least once, which is where most of the time will be spent end game.

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3310 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.11.20 16:59

its ok for solo play

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4072 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.11.20 17:24

What? Reviewing the game after playing one hour?
[strike]Yeah, I 100% didn't arrrr the game and I don't have a 70 hours save file either.[/strike]

I don't understand how anybody who had the patience to beat the boring XIII would come play the sequel, and dislike it. I don't think the game deserves a 6/10, and I kind of liked it.

And, for the price, I didn't mind following a 5 minutes tutorial to fix the game.

I came back because I feel like getting the achievs.

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1803 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.10.20 09:22

The odd child of FFXIII. Not really a fan. It's not horrible, but I wouldn't really recommend playing it. The only reason I can think of is to bridge XIII and Lightning Returns I guess? 5/10

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35 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.11.20 11:38

The game crashes all the while, any way to fix that?

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2842 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.11.20 16:24

its a bad sequel and a bad port that requires fanmade patches. Awful

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2551 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.12.20 20:21

Holy shit !
The story is just insanely good and leads directly in the next game which is really cool.
Most of the issues of the port of the first part are fixed in this game (aside from a bit of substitle delay and stuff). One thing that really don't like is when characters talk while moving around and the dialogue just stops if you enter combat during it. The only other issue is the fact that despite the fact you can basically dodge random encounters with a timer, you sometimes can't do anything because of the enemy going way faster than it should or popping on you thus making the encounter unnavoidable: This is an issue for some parts of the game where this problem feels like a fight every 3 fucking steps while having to explore or cover long distances or on a moving maze...

Even with those issues the game is worth it because of how good the story even though the true ending leads directly into the sequel (DO NOT STOP AT THE CREDITS, THOSE ARE NOT THE END. PLAY A PLACE YOU UNLOCKED AFTER THOSE. GET TO OTHER CREDITS: THAT'S THE REAL TRANSITION INTO THE NEXT GAME.)

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1733 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.12.20 06:50

meh game but kino ending and soundtrack

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597 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.12.20 01:20

How does a 6-year old game manage to drop below 60fps constantly when I have a Rtx 3080 and an overclocked i7-10700k? Do not buy this unoptimized buggy piece of shit. The only hope for this game is that it will be remastered along with the other 2 games in the series in a few years.

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623 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.12.20 06:17

If you have an AMD 5000 series GPU, do not purchase this.
The game is already a bad port to the PC. The stuttering issue from searching for a controller is still very much here in this version. I had occasional crashes and freezes which were annoying, but did not keep me from playing.
However, ever since I upgraded my GPU from a Radeon 290 to 5500 XT, I have been experiencing hard freezing issues in nearly every single fight in the game. I have scoured the internet for a fix and literally nothing has worked. I've tried everything from compatibility mode to supposed fixes from github. I was fooled for about 15 minutes into thinking that I had fixed the game, only to return to it later and have it hard freeze on me again. I've been trying to fix the issue for three days now with little to no success. I'm at my wits end with this and I'm about to uninstall it from my computer.
I'm really sad about it. I love Final Fantasy and I really enjoyed 13. But please, do not buy this game if you have an AMD Radeon 5000 series GPU. It's not worth the headache. Look up a playthrough on youtube, or dig out your old PS3 and find a copy for it there if you have to play it. Don't waste your time or money on this garbage PC port.

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923 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.12.20 00:05

Unplayable. I did enjoy what I could Play. But very difficult when game crashes every 20-60 minutes.

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285 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.12.20 04:09

Man, I just beat 13, tried to play a bit of this, but there are so many bugs that I couldn't progress past the second story area with the titan. Would've liked to play it through, but this shit is never getting fixed, so... Yeah.

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273 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.12.20 00:41

UNPLAYABLE STUTTERING AND LAGS TRUST ME AND SAVE YOUR MONEY. GREAT GAME BUT TERRIBLE PORT

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685 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.12.20 23:06

I would love this game so much more if it didn't crash so often. Please Square fix it because this is bad and I know it isn't my laptop because ya boi can run FFXV flawlessly. I would only recommend this game if they fixed it but going based off the comments doesn't seem likely but people can dream.

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19 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.12.20 20:42

I love this game and the XIII trilogy, but do not buy it on PC. XIII-2 crashes every 2 minutes on PC, enix or steam will never fix it, buy it on PS3 instead. XIII's port is better on PC, but XIII-2 crashes too much.

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2805 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.12.20 19:34

i would have really liked to be able to recommend this game, it has some nice elements ( mainly Mog) but overall compared to XIII it just can't hold its own , and what for me tipped the scale was the game crashing way too often, locking up the steam client completely everytime it did.

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2204 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.01.21 20:31

This game is good but I don't suggest playing it on PC.

FF13-2 is so borked now in 2021. It won't run on anything.

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3029 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.01.21 23:55

Playing this game right after finishing a completionist run of FFXIII it's really apparent just how much they changed for the better compared to the original. The story pacing is much better and the plot isn't nearly as convoluted as the first game, your party is no longer a revolving door of people, side quests are varied and include more story rather than just being kill quests, and the endgame/postgame has a whole host of objectives rather than just farming turtles for hours on end for gil and cp.

I wasn't sure how I would feel about monster capturing being introduced into the game but they're well incorporated into the gameplay. You can do as much or as little as you want to finish the story and even for the end/postgame objectives there's a bunch of monsters aimed at mid-endgame growth that require less resources to level but can easily help you conquer all end/postgame tasks for the achievements. And for those who really love monster capturing/raising there's a fairly in-depth system for raising and tweaking your monsters to build them out just the way you want.

The devs also did a great job in adding fragment skills which are accessible as your collect more fragments and progress the game. These include: increasing or decreasing the encounter rate, increasing cp gain, and increasing monster capture chances among other perks. Having a system in the game to tweak playstyle preferences as a reward for completing side objectives in the game is a really great idea and something I think other JRPGs should implement more often.

My one and only gripe with the game is the optimization. There is a great guide here on steam that provides solutions to fix or mitigate issues the game has but it's a shame that fan-made patches are required at all to make the game function as it should. A problem that cropped up somewhat frequently was reduced frame rate, it was never unbearable but it wasn't pleasant. Thankfully this only occurred in the most populated of areas even though I have a PC that's 4-5 years old at this point. During my roughly 50 hours of playtime I only had the game hard crash on me once after applying the fan-made patches, which I think is a pretty good shout out to the effectiveness of the fan-made solutions.

All in all it's a shame that not many people played this game due to the reputation that the first game garnered from fans. But for anyone that enjoyed or didn't mind the shortcomings of the first game, or is even just interested in revisiting these games, XIII-2 was a very enjoyable journey from beginning to end and in my opinion worth checking out.

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45 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.21 06:30

On top of having an abysmally bad story and feeling nothing like FFXIII, this game is utterly broken and doesn't work properly at all. One of the worst PC ports I've ever played.

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281 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.01.21 18:48

This game randomly crashes.

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2270 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.01.21 21:51

This is probably the game that has frustrated me the most EVER to the point where I couldn't even finish it.

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Going a bit more into detail on the different aspects...

The start of the game was actually really enjoyable and I started getting into the story without any bigger problems, however, that only lasted for maybe 10-15 or so hours. I do feel like the story had potential but suffered due to poor game design and story progression experience.

The amount of times I got lost when trying to progress forwards in the main story isn't even funny to think about. It feels like I spent more time on the internet searching for clear directions on story progression than following the directions the game itself gives the player. This right here is probably my biggest problem with this game.

And again, the battles were enjoyable for the first 10-15 or so hours, however, when all you do is walk around aimlessly for hours while trying to understand a story segment, the random encounters become nothing more than a chore.

I liked many of the other aspects of the game, such as the Bestiary, team building options, the music and the characters etc. However, if the game design can't make the game experience enjoyable with a smooth story progression and clear directions, none of the other aspects really matter.

In short:
The game is 80% searching for answers and wandering around aimlessly, trying to find wild artifacts and more.
10% enjoying a actual meaningful battle.
and 10% enjoying the other aspects of the game (Filling the Bestiary, creating team builds etc.)

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310 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.11.20 19:55

FIX THE DAMN GAME

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405 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.02.21 02:18

Probably a fantastic game but unfortunately because of the dev's abandonment, i'll never know. I've tried everything possible. This game crashes, and crashes. Littered with bugs. It's unplayable. I guess i'll really HAVE to watch some synopsis on youtube. really was hoping not to have to do that. Really didn't want to have to do this.

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6 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.02.21 05:20

Fix this game SE!!! I love this game but couldn't get past the first battle because the game kept crashing.

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313 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.02.21 00:48

i didnt get very far into the game due to crashing when cut scenes occur. I had alot of fun with ff13-2 in the past but i dont recommend this version until its fixed.

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4611 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.02.21 03:54

First off, I LOVE this game. It's one of my favorites. BUT as others are saying, this version is completely unplayable.
Crashed to desktop several times when autosaving or manual saving.
Tried to get around the problem with the fix of turning off steam cloud saves.
Now I get caught in endless loading screens, having to re-enable steam cloud saves (while the game is running) to get it to load, which sometimes works, sometimes crashes the entirety of steam.
I can't believe how long ago this game came out and it still has not been fixed.

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689 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.02.21 18:59

The game is a mess - cringe characters, story and presentation. The battle system is simply a mashing of X button over and over - one can play holding a gamepad with one hand smashing that x button. It's definitely way worse game than FF13 - and nowhere near older FF's.

It's also worth to note that the PC port is full of bugs, and it looks - given the Steam release date - that the developer/publisher won't bother to fix them.

So avoid even if it'll be on discount.

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437 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.02.21 17:34

Does not work. Crashes and causes my volume to malfunction. First game works perfect but this one crashes alot.

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816 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.12.20 15:43

Stays for the beautiful soundtrack

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86 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.03.21 21:41

This port is another prime example of Square Enix ignoring their customers. Been broken for years yet they can set up a 4k compatible version that runs fine on an Xbox.

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670 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.03.21 20:34

the game crashes all the time, and when i googled it, turns out it's been buggy as hell for years. Welp, going to see if I can return this game. I was so looking forward to experiencing this.

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4390 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.04.21 16:24

crashes way too much

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1939 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.03.21 20:38

Constantly crashes.
No it's not my computer and FF13 worked with ZERO issues.
Save before going to a new timeline (crash randomly happens)
Save before cutscenes (crash randomly happens)
and here is the best part....SAVING randomly crashes.
Expect spending countless hours doing the same thing over and over trying to progress due to crashing and not saving.

Fixed it by disabling cloud saves.
Music: 20/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Story: 8/10
Bugs: just....the crashes....is really really bad. no excuse for how rich square enix is.

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377 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.03.21 22:50

i wow at the game. its amazing (at least the start of it)
then the frame rate drop started hurting my brain.
trying to fix the issues with the comments....

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68 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.03.21 20:00

I returned this game years ago due to frame rate stuttering and judging by other reviews it looks like it still hasn't been fixed.

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296 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.04.21 04:40

Poor optimization and crashes a lot

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66 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.03.21 17:29

not remotely optimised for pc, constantly freezes and crashes, cant even make it past the first valhalla encounter. Tried all the fixes none of them work. having completed the game back in the day on xbox its not a bad game but this version needs more work that square are unlikely to invest

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33 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.03.21 19:54

does not work on windows 10

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398 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.03.21 12:53

Already following the Instruction from other player or user....It still Crash and i already fix it....But come another problem..it keep Freeze and Frame Rate down like crazy...Please Square Enix Do something About This...Make this game Smooth Just like Final Fantasy 13...No problematic...

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2925 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.04.21 17:50

[h1]It lets you play as Serah what else do you need?[/h1]

I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy series, maybe not hardcore fan but this is one of my favorite game series. And Final Fantasy XIII-2 in my opinion is one of the worst games in the whole series. But that doesn't mean it's bad. Final Fantasy XIII lacked a lot of things which made the game a FF game. But I really loved combat in that game. While this game retains very similar combat system it simply lacks characters. You can't build a team since it has very limited playable characters. You play as Serah (oh how I wanted to play as her, it's like dream come true, cutie) and Noel. You can have third party member as a captured monster. They also can evolve and you have quite a bit of choice which monster you want to use. Other than that the combat is very similar to FF XIII – it's fast but it allows some tactical gameplay and isn't as boring as turn based combat. Yes I get it turn based combat has a lot more tactical possibilities but most of the time you're fighting regular monsters which are easy to beat and you run into them a lot, so waiting each time while clicking one button becomes boring after your 100th fight.

This time Serah and Noel embark on a journey to find Lightning. They travel through time to various locations some being new and some you've visited in previous game. Although those locations are quite different when you travel there because of the time period you travel to.
There are a lot of locations to explore. From vast open areas to some weird sci-fi-like mazes and cities. What I loved about the setting was that the game feels pretty dark, the worlds you travel to are desolate and the whole atmosphere is like that. It's still pretty but feels very eerie, grim, dismal (can't find a word for it).

So the whole gameplay is exploring those areas in different time periods and fighting enemies alongside doing some side quests. But there's one gameplay mechanic I hated, I hated it to the degree it almost ruined the whole game for me. It's clock puzzles. When you get there you'll know why. Don't believe me? Google it, someone even made clock puzzle solver. I have no idea why they put this crap into a game.

Of course there a chocobos and moogles so it has at least a bit of Final Fantasy soul. But nearly everything else which made Final Fantasy great is gone just like in XIII.

Graphically it looks surprisingly good considering the age of this game. The game looks really pretty, character models are very high quality (except AI characters) and since the PS3 release the hair modelling still looks great today.
Areas are ranging from ok to good in my opinion. Some could use more work and some look really good.
Since this is an old game, PS3 port, it should run pretty good but don't expect performance to be great. It's straight up PS3 port after all. Porting from PS3 was difficult, besides seeing the game's price it's clear SE did not put a lot of effort into porting this.

Sound design is great as always in the series. Music is very good and in some areas it creates that kind of hopeless, the end of the world mood. Voice acting is good too, I have no complaints.

It's a decent Final Fantasy game. If you enjoyed XII you will enjoy this too. But somehow it feels even smaller than XIII, lacks characters and the whole time traveling is a bit tiring and confusing. But it retained the combat system which makes fighting fun. Get this on sale if you enjoy FF or jrpg's in general.

Pros

Good graphics
Good soundtrack
Fun combat
Dark world
Having your own monster is fun

Cons

Clock puzzles...
Only two main characters

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3522 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.04.21 01:22

This is literally the worst PC release square has ever don't. While most of the final fantasy PC ports aren't all that amazing, at the very least they are functional. I played the entirety of FF 13 with out a single mod or patch needed. Lightning Returns also runs fine. This FUCKING GAMES HOWEVER! Even with all of the community fixes and patches you will still run into random crashes and audio buzzing with 8 channel audio devices.

Square Enix should honestly ashamed at the state of this game. I was able to play this game for quite a bit and decided to uninstall it. Randomly decided to play it again and installed generally all the fixes I did before because playing this game with out them is almost a battle in itself. I don't even have a different computer and no will to trouble shoot this game any longer. Square Enix the way you left this game is just disgusting.

I bet it wouldn't even be that difficult to get this game at least playable in the same way the other two games in this trilogy are. You just wont do it. Which is shitty as fuck.

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1312 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.04.21 19:09

This game flat-out does not work. It should not be up for sale. And Square Enix should be ashamed of giving one of their flagship titles a PC port that does not even qualify as half-assed.

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60 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.05.21 20:35

Upon finishing and quite enjoying XIII (performance issues and slightly obtuse story aside), I decided to see what XIII-2 was about. Sadly, as soon as it launched I ran into a very annoying audio buzzing (fixed by disabling Windows Sonic for Headphones oddly). The issues didn't stop there.

I don't have the highest end PC but it definitely falls within the recommended specs on the store page, yet the game's frame rate was truly appalling, even for enclosed areas. In the starting area of New Bodham the game would freeze entirely and just crash - I know there are some community fixes for common problems, but I just wanted to play the game, not diagnose various bugs and faults.

Normally, I'm willing to accept some issues and rough edges, especially for a game that was released some time ago, but frankly it's just unplayable in its current state.

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1833 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.04.21 18:58

I have a love/hate relationship with this game. The battle system is really engaging and time jumping is interesting. But, the dialog/cutscenes are SO BAD and SO FREQUENT. I end up skipping half of them and then am not sure where to go next because one scene finally had some useful information instead of one character or another just whining for several minutes about how sad and unfair life is.

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128 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.05.21 16:56

Literally a broken game. Don't wast your money.

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1192 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.05.21 12:33

Completely unplayable. Constantly crashing especially when trying to save. Don't waste your money.

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145 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.04.21 13:27

i cant get it to stay running for longer than a few minutes. tried everything i could think of to fix it. shame, this is one of my favorite games

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176 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.05.21 15:36

Astonishingly bad even by the very low standards set by other FF spinoffs. My Steam record suggests I played for less than three hours; I couldn't take any more after that, but I'd played for too long to be eligible for a refund. Boring gameplay, dreadful characters, ugly visuals and a soundtrack so unpleasant to listen to that I ended up playing with the audio muted. This game was a pure cash grab in true Square Enix form. Give it a miss and go straight to Lightning Returns if you want to extend your time in the FFXIII universe.

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25 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.06.21 22:47

Unfortunately, I was only able to get about 5mins deep, before the game kept crashing. I really wanted to get into this, but sadly it is unplayable for me and I do not want to download a whole bunch of outside resources just to make a game work.

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5335 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.06.21 01:51

Quick note: Most of the dislike reviews are because of a bad port of the game, wich makes it crash sometimes when the game saves automatically.
The good news is that it can be fixed, just search it up on the internet and it´ll pop up, it fixes it all so you can enjoy the game fully :).
I personally found out the story to be delivered in a more fluent way than FF13, due to the characters in FF13 having a hard time to make sense, but in this one they seem to have improved that quite a lot.
If you loved the cutscenes from FF13, oh boy, time for part 2. Although there are some performance issues and frames drop sometimes, but they are still good looking.
Combat remains basically the same, although they chopped some spells and they added some other cool features.
At times the timeline will get very complicated. I found myself stuck several times due to going for sidequests and being incapable of finding where to go to progress with the main story later.
One last tip would be for you to save the master artifacts, they are often needed to progress with the main story, and if you run out, you´ll find yourself having to scan half of the other timelines, or giving up and following a guide.

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5450 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.06.21 09:09

So playing this game right after Final Fantasy XIII, gives a quite clear idea what Square Enix wanted from this game. They initially tried something new in Final Fantasy XIII, in which some things were appreciated but some were heavily criticised. They took all those good things of initial game and evolved it and tried to address the issues gameplay design wise in this sequel.

First I'm going to talk about the port itself. Overall pc port is mediocre at its best in vanilla form. A lot of people in past have complained about crashes and FPS drops. To resolve or at least to minimise those issue I would suggest going to Final Fantasy XIII-2 PC Wiki page, this has safe links to fan made patches and mods that tries to restore the game. For me after these patches, my gameplay experience was quite enjoyable with only one crash in whole run. Overall FPS was good as well.

Instead of being linear like previous instalment, the sequel gives you multiple areas to explore and travel back and forth as much as you like. This game introduces random encounters again with a slight modified form which I personally liked a lot. Battle system is more responsive and with paradigm shifts animations taking a lot less time to change now. One party leader dying the game does not over but instead the control of the game shifts to the other surviving character. This game only has two playable characters. We can also add third party member as well but that will one of the monsters which we catch while during random encounters. Yes, it also has monster capture elements. The crystarium has also been upgraded. Instead of predefined upgrade nodes we can select the type of stat upgrade we want on the node. To sum up, the gameplay experience has definitely been refined in this game.

Story of this game is about time travel and it can get a little confusing. The story overall takes places in multiple areas in multiple time eras, with time era having its own minor lore. I found protagonist Serah exactly opposite of Lightning, where Lightning was brooding with emotional layer hidden deep within, Sarah is a little bubbly and polite with slight emotional layer on the top. The villain in this game actually feels like a powerful and destructive being which I liked a lot. Overall characters are well defined in this game.

The soundtrack is awesome. Simple enough.

This is a good sequel and I would recommend to play this if you finished and liked Final Fantasy XIII. Even if you didn't liked part 1 enough still give this game a try. It may surprise you.

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465 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.05.21 17:51

Runs horribly on pc, so i looked up how to get constant 60 fps, and there was a fix. it did nothing, and corrupted my save. i expect way better from square enix.

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1514 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.06.21 11:30

The game is fun, with lots of stuff happening, and I'd definitely recommend it over many other FFs but...
It crashes. A lot. In 2021. DURING SAVING.

Yes, I can disable Steam cloud saves (sure, why not hurt a free backup solution?) but that leads to infinite save-file reading issue.
So, yeah, crashes or loading your game.

Will try a FFXIII fix + 4gb ram patch, but the taste is already sour.
If you can play this game anywhere else but steam - do so.

P.S. The *gameplay* is copyrighted on YT. GL.

Edit: FFXIII fix + 4gb ram patch fixed most of the issues.
Still, sometimes the game goes into infinite load/save.
Toggle steam cloud save on and off again and if it doesn't stop load/save in 20 seconds - restart the game.

The plot is good - like it better than the ff13 proper, but the recommendation is still no.
It's a broken port, I'm glad I got it on a sale paying a fraction of a regional price.

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143 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.04.21 18:04

This port is beyond horrible, FPS is all over the place for no reason and constant crashes (including some so hard they crash steam along with the game). There are pages and pages of fixes on the forum sure but a lot of them require downloading questionable software and quite frankly I just want to sit down and enjoy a game without having to jump through endless hoops just to get it to function.

This is very strange to me since the first game in the ff13 trilogy worked completely fine so I don't know how they screwed this one up so bad.

I'd recommend a do not buy.

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2139 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.05.21 20:31

If you get the FFXIII Fix recommended in the Steam Communities, XIII-2 runs well and doesn't crash. And if you get the HD Texture Mods from Nexus Mods, XIII-2 looks gorgeous.

I did both and consequently, have been having a ton of fun. The paradigm combat system runs better than ever (no annoying 5 second transition occurring with your first paradigm shift every battle! ^_^ ) . Soundtrack is a real treat, probably better than the first one IMO. And while this is just a personal taste sorta thing, some may disagree I really enjoy having Serah and Noel as protagonists.

So overall, I'd recommend the game highly if you're willing to put in the work to get it running. Doesn't justify how poorly it was optimized to begin with by Square, but it's at least playable and more importantly, enjoyable with some tinkering.

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3635 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.07.21 22:08

Hello friends,

Today i will be reviewing game Final Fantasy 13-2. The game is the second in the Lightning saga. This game is buggy though. WARNING: I installed the 4gb patch which can be found under the sticky post in the community forums. If your experiencing any type of bugs in the game, mainly crashes to desktop of pc, try using this patch. Be aware every pc is different and may not fix your issues. It did fix my issues, for the most part. Sadly, this port is horrible on pc. I recommend playing on a console if you can, but if you do not have access to a console with it on, buy it on sale. Anyways, here is my pro/con list:

PROS:

NOTE: You will experience bugs, but follow my instructions below and try your game and see if it works if you have any issues. Only install the 4gb after you experienced bugs in the game.

- You get to play as lightning's sister, Sarah.
- New characters and new enemies.
- Continuation of the game from FF 13. I sugggest playing FF 13 first to understand the game, as some of the story plots involve things from the first game in the trilogy.
- New mechanics and a new moogle friend.
- TIME TRAVELING!
- Paradox endings (multiple endings).

CONS:

- Install the 4gb patch provided under this link:

https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

That really saved my game.

- Even with the above 4gb patch, you may experience other issues like stuttering during cutscenes. I had this in my game, but only minor ones.

I recommend only getting this game if you get the whole trilogy of lightning 13 series games. Also, due to this bad port, you may be required to fix it to actually play it with a 4gb patch. Also, i suggest getting it on sale. It goes on sale quite a bit, so wait to buy it on sale.

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2750 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.07.21 21:54

My favorite final fantasies are VI, IX, and XII, and I hated FFXIII. If you have similar tastes you might find this review useful.
I hated the first FFXIII, it was awful, I wrote a review for it explaining why I have this opinion.
This game is much better, it fixes a lot of the problems the first game had. The structure is much better, there's actual exploration now instead of just straight halways, and more side content besides just killing monsters after long, tedious walks.
Combat and customization is also better. The two main characters are pretty static with what you can do with them but the third party member (a monster) is up to you and you can do a lot with it. Combat is also faster, in the original game sometimes I didn't even want to paradigm shift because the animation was so long. Animations are faster and this game doesn't have trash mobs with huge HP pools like the first game. This is a huge quality of life improvement.
They also got rid of the awful weapon/accesory upgrade system. You just get weapons or accessories and that's it. The complicated and opaque upgrade system from the previous game did not make it more complex or interesting, just more annoying.
These were my main gripes with the original game, the fixes this game brings make it a much more enjoyable experience.
If you played FFXIII, saw a decent game there screwed by poor design decisions, and wish it were better, then this is the game you want. Hell, you don't even need to play the first game, this one comes with explanations of what happened in the first game if you want to watch/read about it.

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2889 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.07.21 13:45

I really wish I could recommend this game, however this has to be one of the worst ports I have experienced myself. Lightning Returns had a small patch very recently, but they straight up don't care about fixing this port. If anything this is more like a crashing simulator than an actual FF game. When you try to launch the game, it acts like it flips a coin to see if you are even allowed to play it. You have a very high chance to crash whenever you get to a cutscene or an auto save location, specifically using the Historia Crux.

For anyone who tries to play this I strongly recommend doing the following:
1) Disable Cloud Saves , in the start up menu for the game, it straight up says that saving may take awhile due to cloud saves, I think they confused taking awhile with crashing. This should be done before starting a save, if you want to do it after, simply make a back up of your save file, located at /userdata/ /292140/remote/ and move it to %LOCALAPPDATA% SquareEnixFinalFantasyXIII-2save, create the folders if you need to.
2) Install FF13Fix, https://github.com/rebtd7/FF13Fix
3) Install 4GB Patch, https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

Disabling cloud saves and installing the mod and patch stopped most crashes from occurring, they still happen but its very infrequent. The only downside to this is that the game may randomly freeze at times, only solution I see for that is to just tab out if you are in fullscreen, only a temporary fix of course.

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22891 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.07.21 02:07

A beautiful RPG that marks the second chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy!

In a departure from the first game, FFXIII-2 is very non-linear; you can explore all manner of side areas and progress the story at your own speed, but going straight through the story is also perfectly possible and not prohibitively difficult for a player that didn't grind.

NOTE: This game does *not* run well without modification, as Square Enix did a very sloppy job porting it. Thankfully this is fixed by unofficial fixes and mods - you can find information on those here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19DSne5vsSVdbf_gS-fnD377drWX4g4evCFUKy61sR_E/edit?usp=sharing .

Pros:
- Excellent soundtrack and characters
- Story is great
- Beautiful graphics
- Battle system is a lot of fun

Cons:
- One of the Temporal Rift puzzles (the clock solvers) are an absolute nightmare and easily the worst design decision in the whole Final Fantasy XIII series. Easy for a computer for a solve, practically impossible for any normal human; google for Robert Woodward's FFXIII-2 clock solver to save yourself endless frustration.
- The game could have done a better job of hinting to the player where to find good early monsters - the ones given initially are awful, and getting decent monsters is very much key to the battle system in FFXIII-2. It's not a big deal, but something that could've been better.
- Much like FFXIII, this game was given an extremely sloppy port by Square Enix. Not only does it run badly out of the box but will frequently crash - thankfully you can fix all this with unofficial mods and game fixes, which are all fantastic and require little effort to install. You can find information about them here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19DSne5vsSVdbf_gS-fnD377drWX4g4evCFUKy61sR_E/edit?usp=sharing

Note that console versions of FFXIII-2 are locked to 1080p and 30FPS, so playing it on Steam with mods and fixes is much better performance wise as you can run it at 4K with 60FPS.

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930 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.07.21 22:36

Wow this port is bad. Shame on Square. Total waste of money.

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1946 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.08.21 05:23

you can throw the moogle into an endless void

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2594 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.09.21 12:23

Very good game.

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2026 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.08.21 01:46

I played this game using FF13Fix and I strongly encourage you to do so if you want to play this game on PC.
This is a fantastic game with a less-than-stellar PC port. It's quite easy to fix the problems with a little modding. It fixes all of the gameplay and design issues seen in FF13 and then some - greater focus on exploration, faster introduction of gameplay mechanics, and a whole new monster system that adds tremendous depth.

I CAUTIOUSLY recommend this game - the unmodded PC port is a disaster, but with a little modding, it can be fixed into a fantastic experience.

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4450 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.07.21 14:04

The game I liked,but it crashes TOO DAMN MUCH.

I presume the other non steam versions don't crash as much or at all,so play it there.
If it crashes there also,well just avoid it then.

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823 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.08.21 01:29

Crashes, unplayable

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59 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.11.21 20:49

FF13-2 builds on what FF13 established for story and beautiful world building and amazing character design, ontop of having yet again, an absolutely amazing score to listen to while you play. This one is a direct continuation of FF13, but takes place with Serah, the little sister of Lightning, as the main character. You will play as serah ab out 90% of the game, and occasionally switch to playing as lightning as she battles with some odd dark lord wannabe character. It also has serah jumping between different places in the timeline to fix stuff gone awry.

The game has a fantastic and beautiful world, a great score (like always for Final Fantasy games) a good story progress, great character design, and an interesting story, with much stronger story telling than the first game had. All around, not a bad game to play, and not a bad addition to any fans collection.

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378 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.10.21 21:27

Bought this here after my ps3 finally died. I have never been this disappointed with a FF game. Not that I think the story is bad or anything like that (in fact this in unironically one of my favorite FF's and i platted it on ps3). The game is just a mess. The hoops you have to jump through just to get it to play in an acceptable state is frankly shocking.

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6005 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.10.21 22:34

A very good Final Fantasy game, but that is coming from someone who liked FFXIII for the story and even FFX-2 for the battle systems (it was fun ok!)

Do not buy unless you are technical and patient enough to fix the performance issues. Even after forwarding all the guides and applying the most recent patches I still had issues with the game freezing constantly, and it wasn't related to the 'controller bug' (connecting a wired controller to the computer to stop it searching for one). I ended up having to use a software called 'Process Lasso' to force the game to stop using more than 2 cores and disable Hyper Threading.

Great game once you get past the initial setup though.

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487 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.10.21 02:15

Visuals - Like 13 its a pretty looking game with that said it doesn't look as good as 13 the artist had less time and it shows - 90 out of 100

Sound - This is different from any FF game expect a lot of J-pop songs it all works well though and voice acting this time is also a bit better. 90 out of 100

Gameplay - Honestly everything the first should have been bigger areas,Towns,Npcs the abilty to pick and choose how you level up and being able to switch between party members I do wish it was a tad harder though but its a big step up - 80 out of 100

Story - Another improvement it's better told and just felt better than everything the original tried to do its still not amazing but def gets the job done. 70 out of 100

Value - There's plenty to do and the pokemon like gameplay adds to that 80 out of 100

Score 82

I can't recommend this game on pc though unless you know how to fix the game theres a lot of bugs in this version

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968 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.10.21 21:27

The game itself is fine. The issue is, however, that the port released for PC is defective. You can play this port in a quantum computer and it will still run at 15 FPS.

A quite disappointing work in optimization from square-enix on this one.

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1002 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.09.21 01:13

Absolute waste of money. Tried making it run on 3 different combinations (and generations) of hardware and with SEVERAL formats but not a single time did it want to run for more than a few minutes before completely crashing. Get it for consoles if you are planning on getting into the XIII Final Fantasy titles

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7030 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.10.21 05:44

One of my worst gaming experiences. I guess I expected it to be too much like the original
KUPO KUPO KUPO!!....one of the most annoying characters in history

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240 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.12.21 13:55

fix this game

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590 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.12.21 02:25

Crashes constantly on new machines that play much more taxing games. PC version is a waste of money.

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2805 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.12.21 11:56

yes
smoother combat
nice story
fun experience
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if you can get the game to run with more files from the internet because of how bad the port was
other than that great game

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2377 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.01.22 02:00

Good game, but one of the worst ports ever. Use this guide if you're going to play it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2038838545

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1076 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.01.22 12:43

Works great, starts in the same world I just finished in FF13, and so far it's quite engaging and fun. I'm very glad with this purchase at 50% off and look forward to completing it and moving onto FF13-3.

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1809 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.12.21 13:29

I really wanted to enjoy this game. But the story is such a mess. and don't even get me started on the frequent crashes. I had to download a patch to play this game. Battle system was nice and the monster taming part as well.

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55 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.12.21 04:28

I wish I could have gotten into this game , but crashed constantly during the first battle. Asked for a refund .

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1028 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.12.21 06:47

This game for some people is only playable an unofficial patch, user SwedishFrög helped me patch it. It plays great, without the patch the game crashes and isn't playable for me because the port for this game is bad.

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717 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.03.22 04:03

I'm going to drop this here in case anyone finds it.

I'm using Ubuntu 21.10 as my operating system.

This game runs flawlessly through GE-Proton compared to the windows variant that is an absolute nightmare.

PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 DXVK_ASYNC in the executable variable on steam.
If you want you can change DXVK_ASYNC to PROTON_USE_WINED3D for less stuttering, at the cost of 5-10 frames.
The game is hard capped at 40fps so it's not really a huge deal to run it at 30 instead.

When I attemped to play this game on Windows as the top review says it's a technical nightmare. You have to edit the registry to even get the game to launch. Then you have to patch the exe to use more memory, or the game runs out resulting in a crash. Even after all of that you'll average a stuttery 12-40 FPS, and experience numerous crashes.

Linux is getting way more popular, and this series is fantastic. If you ever wanted to make the switch for gaming purposes we're in a revolutionary time with the release of the steam deck. Have fun!

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366 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.02.22 02:37

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 adds more to the story of this series without changing much of anything, presenting a fresh experience with familiar characters and controls. However, this PC port has some issues, and I had less fun struggling through the various story-points (and re-doing some) in this one than I had with the previous game. Eventually I went back and finished this one on Xbox instead.

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???? What I like	???? What I dislike
+ It's still the same game, now ported over to PC	- Demanding system requirements and many issues still reported
+ Very pretty game to watch unfold	- Also a pretty sad game to play through start to finish
+ It's still Final Fantasy XIII	- but this time you're the kid sister and her boyfriend

Lightning's sister Serah Farron is the main star of this entry, and I hope you like her more than I do. While not always annoying, she slowly grated away on me with her reactions to some situations during the story. This entry is otherwise less linear than the first game, and puts its Crystarium to better use, simultaneously adding to the replay value to bridge the gap between the first and last entries.

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Content/Replay	Low - You'll have to do some replays of certain areas if you try it without a guide, but once those are finished, there's nothing left to do.
Pass, Sale, Buy?	Buy - It's still Final Fantasy so there's plenty to do and a lot of pretty cutscenes to be viewed.
Overall	Score: 3.5 / 5.0 - Slightly Above Average, XIII-2 is a solid entry beloved by many, and although this port has some technical issues the game is pretty fun; just don't let the characters or the constant time-skipping towards the end bother you too much.

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Intel i5 3770k \| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 \| 16GB RAM \| 1920 x 1080

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10 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.02.22 01:16

i could download a ps3 emulator on my low-mid range rig and id get better fps. i love ff13 and 13-2 but its literally unplayable

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2185 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.02.22 16:08

Great entry in the trilogy, doesn't mix a whole lot up from the first game in terms of combat, however it really opens up the world.

Worth playing, however, [spoiler]be warned that this game DOES have a sad ending.[/spoiler] You'll need to buy Lightning Returns and finish that game also, otherwise you won't sleep at night.

Worth noting that this game does have some performance issues. Had terrible framerates in particular with a lot of stuttering outside of battle. FFXIII and Lightning Returns both ran flawlessly, though.

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2660 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.03.22 18:00

I feel like it says something when an utterly broken port is still more fun than than its perfectly playable predecessor.

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4614 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.01.22 01:53

[h1] Final Fantasy XIII-2 [/h1]

The direct sequel to 2009’s Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2 brings a slate of improvements to the flawed formula of its predecessor, from improved exploration to the non existence of a 20 hour tutorial, to the way you encounter enemies, while perhaps taking a hit in other aspects but overall it should be said that XIII-2 does surpass XIII and it also unveils the actual mythos behind the Fabula Nova Crystallis.

[1] Gameplay

While very similar to XIII it does bring some quality of life improvements, finally being able to change party leaders during enemy encounters which leads to not losing battles when your party leader is downed despite the two other members being alive, which was in my opinion a flaw of XIII and a departure from classic Final Fantasy. The level design, while still somewhat linear, does lead to more exploration and choices while walking around, it clearly is a step up from XIII, but it continues the linearity the franchise has had since Final Fantasy X. In a myriad of ways XIII-2 does mirror X-2, it has a similar level “selector”, the Historia Crux mirrors the Celsius, such as being able to visit every biome that existed in the previous games in a non linear form, while both predecessors you walked the world in a linear progression following the party’s journey to their destiny.

Speaking more in depth about the changes to combat, the paradigm pack is a nice addiction with a somewhat Pokemon style system, that is to say, during the game you may catch crystals that contain the monsters that you defeated and they may help you in battle, and each monster has a given role attributed to them that is immutable, you level their crystarium with components that you either randomly gain during battles or chests during the game or buy them through the shop system in XIII-2, there are various tiers of components for each type of beast, be they robot or l’cie or biological and as Pokemon have EV’s (read: Effort Value) which are mutable characteristics. There’s also an infusion system in the game, that I did not delve much into, but to summarise it, you infuse a given beast with the crystal of another’s so that they may gain said beast’s passive ability.

The last thing about gameplay should be the Crystarium, while in this game we still use a Crystarium it has changed to be less linear, you do not have 6 paths for each character, you only follow 1 path that has 22 stages, and that are not gate kept by your progress in the main journey unlike XIII’s, in this iteration of the Crystarium each role is attributed a level that goes up to level 99, each role favours a stat, be it strength, magic or HP, and when you level a role you get a bonus for the stat that said role favours, usually Serah is the Magic User while Noel is the Attack User, you may only focus on Commando for example and leave every role at level 1, there is absolutely no restrictions, and if you do end up levelling a role to 99 in early Crystarium Stages, it costs little, because the CP costs are tied to the Crystarium’s stages not the the level of the role you are levelling.

[2] Story

Final Fantasy XIII was the first one to be released under the umbrella of the Fabula Nova Crystallis, but while XIII deals with theme of defying destiny and focuses on Crystals such as early entries in the franchise, it doesn’t delve much into the mythos of the Goddess Etro that the cancelled Versus XIII was supposed to deal with right from the get go.

As with the gameplay the initial setup for this game also mirrors X-2’s setup, in the fact that each of their predecessors doesn’t foreshadow a sequel or has an emerging intrigue starting in their ending, neither does either one need a sequel, both games reach conclusive endings on their own without the need for a follow up, which leaves the setup for both feeling maybe forced and unnecessary, nonetheless both games bring interesting gameplay and are worth the play.

The game starts 3 year after XIII’s events, which is dubbed 003 AF (After the Fall [of Cocoon]), Serah is living in what is called New Bodhum in Gran Pulse which is populated by the familiar faces that lived in the original one, but we soon learn that shortly after XIII’s ending, Lightning disappears mysteriously, and suddenly monsters appear in the town and with them comes a strange fellow called Noel that says he arrived there from Valhalla where he found Lightning protecting the Goddess Etro’s throne, and he informs Serah that to reach Valhalla and save her sister they must journey through time fixing paradoxes.

The game introduces us to Valhalla to the Goddess Etro and to broader themes of the Fabula, but does it so in a way that sometimes can feel disconnected from the original game, the characters may suffer less characterization given the more non linear progression of the story, that was one of the upsides to XIII’s linearity and some of the supposed emotional scenes may come out as cheap same with some of the plot twists but overall XIII-2 tells a decent enough humanist story with the overall theme of the Fabula, that is defying destiny or dying trying.

[3] Soundtrack

Similarly to its predecessor the OST of this game is decent enough, there are some songs that are quite well, one that strikes me the first time that I heard it was the one in the seaside in one of the more advance levels, but for the seasoned Final Fantasy fan it doesn’t come close to the legendary OST of past entries made by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu.

[4] Endgame

The original endgame of this game rubbed me in a way more positive light versus the endgame of XIII, it was way less grindy and the fragment list was actually fulfilling to complete unlike the trapezohedron grind of the previous game, although the hardest bosses either played exactly like the previous one or very similarly, but that point ends up being fixed with one of the DLCs.

[5] DLCs

There are a few DLCs, I’ve read that Square Enix’s DLC practice for this game (and others for that matter) was quite consumer unfriendly but for the Steam version everything comes with this purchase.

Some of these DLCs are spoiler heavy and so will be my review about them.

Sazh’s Story: Heads or Tails?

The objective and gameplay is quite dull, the synopsis for this story is that Sazh’s son has disappeared and for him to recover his son he must play poker at the universal casino, when translating this concept to execution it really ends up being a really boring DLC, and its plot implications are simply to explain how Sazh appears at the end of the game to help out Serah and the crew

] Snow’s Story: Perpetual Battlefield

This DLC is the one that can really satiate the more hardcore players with it’s fights, you find yourself in an universal omnitemporal coloseum where you fight various enemies from XIII’s universe or related to common Final Fantasy mythos, and a SPECIAL appearence from Ultros ( a Final Fantasy VI classic).

Lightning’s Story: Requiem of the Goddess

This DLC and the secret ending that you acquire after getting 160/160 fragments is the one that connects XIII-2 to Lightning Returns, something that should have been done to connect XIII to XIII-2. The gameplay for this is somewhat fun, it requires you to fight Caius and lose enough times until you become strong enough to beat him and witness the ending of the DLC.

[6] Conclusion

Overall this game is a step up from its prequel, and while XIII is overly criticised in Final Fantasy circles this game helps clear this trilogy’s reputation for those that dare to play it.
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SQUARE FIX YOUR FUCKING PC PORT

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Verfasst: 12.01.22 18:47

Game runs very poorly, crashes every 5 minutes, even with mods to fix it is still unplayable, it's been on Steam for over 7 years and Square Enix never fixed it. I'm sad because I really like the game, I played it a lot on PS3, where he ran very well.

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Verfasst: 09.04.22 11:49

FF13-2 I love you, you're a great game and all, but Square Enix.. You need to maintain your PC ports better! This game probably being the biggest example.. Constant crashes out of nowhere, constant stuttering, FPS isn't stable, steam cloud not keeping saves, very loud buzzing when starting the game. I love the FF13 trilogy, but I've never seen a pc port with so much neglect like this.. It's like they posted it without testing it and called it a day!

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Verfasst: 04.04.22 19:41

Requires editing the binary to be able to run at all because of poor coding.
I played this game and never had an issue.
3 to 4 years ago it stopped working. Came back and same thing. Its a damn shame for such a great game. Even after trying all the patches... Keeps crashing and just is unplayable. Idk what happened but dont waste your money. Its not worth it anymore unless they fix it.

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WHY WOULD YOU REGION LOCK THE ENGLISH VOICE OVER???
I don't even

Whoever thought it was a good idea can just rot in hell.

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Overlooked classic

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Verfasst: 19.03.22 02:48

Requires editing the binary to be able to run at all because of poor coding. Check the discussions to find solutions because Square Enix can't be bothered to fix the issue themselves.

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Verfasst: 10.02.22 10:44

runs like poop

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