XIII was OKAY. Wasn’t crazy about the story or the gameplay even, (combat felt more on the generic side, kinda like FFIX to me) but the visual presentation and music are honestly what kept me playing. XIII-2 was surprisingly fantastic and a criminally underrated entry in the FF series. That one pulled a 180 on me in terms of how I felt about it. I mean of course I had to change Ashley and Noel’s costumes to the Mass Effect black suits, and I wasn’t crazy about the damn Mog, but beyond that? The game’s music, characters, story were all amazingly well-executed imo, even if I wasn’t crazy about the pacing at times. Most of all, this game’s mechanics and how they were married into the time traveling mechanics of the story (and the larger XIII-2 story) were perfect as far as I’m concerned.
0:13 - 0:21 I played through this game again and hearing this with the cinematic going off ox showing Serah & Noel before panning to the dragons reminded me of why I adore FF13. This trilogy just has a special place in my heart.
Must say despite the low reputation of xiii, this boss is very well designed with the theme. The theme is epic while portraying the power of the almighty gods/bahamut. These 3 bahamuts are also very well designed. Garnet has a pose of extreme savagery ready to throw down, amber has a pose of what alot of Buddhist goddess do, a pose of wisdom seeing how it is more align to magic. While jet strikes the classic crossarm bahamut pose, literally asserting dominance with its overwhelming strength
@@Hollow.Midnight I feel like the whole linear argument is weird because ff10 was just like that, a hallway game with an open world towards the end. The combat system was odd for the time with 13, but then again I found 12's to be even weirder than that tbh gameplay wise. For me they improved upon the combat for 13-2 from its predecessor, however I personally didn't enjoy the story of that one. It doesn't mesh well with the first, thankfully they didn't make the same mistake with Lightning Returns concerning 13-2 and actually made the story make more sense towards it. All in all the 13 trilogy was something I enjoyed and stuck through (pre-ordered all 3 at the time). However I've only ever replayed and actually beaten more than once 13 and LR. That's just my take and experience on it tho
@@hinachan70 I agree with everything you said. I love the XIII-Trilogy and I've played them multiple times. XIII-2's story becomes a mess due to the whole time travel plot, but the combat system was pretty good. I felt like the combat changes they made in LR were unnecessary.
Not gonna lie, beat Caius that 3rd time and thought the game was over then. Suddenly, Jet Bahamut spawns from the darkness, and I'm like... O_O holy crap...
JTruth9419 Dude...I was playing the game at night, parents sleeping, finally beat Caius 3ºrd time and when Jet Bahamut appears i do that "Screaming inside" face... no lies x)
I was like (oh shit) I have to fight that than I see the others and I screamed ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I HAVE TO FIGHT THREE GIANT DRAGONS THAT CAN HIT ME WITH MEGAFLARE
@@drakofox1362When the countdown begins before they cast Gigaflare use Noel, Serah, and any partner that has the Sentinel ability and switch to Tortoise SEN/SEN/SEN which is a complete damage shield to protect them from the Gigaflare attack.
This game was so underrated. I loved pretty much everything about it. Traveling back and forth through time, changing the future and creating branching paths and paradoxes. Then there was that unexpected bitter-sweet ending. SO Good!
Everything about this game, including this song, makes it the spiritual successor to the Chrono series: this feels like "Dragon God" aka "Omni Dragon Battle" from Chrono Cross, another fantastic final boss theme.
When I first saw these guys, I imagined an epic three dragon vs party battle. To my dismay, these guys were taking turns instead of going all out... Ah well.
***** Yeah...I was a little disappointed, and at a high level one of literally defeat them in a matter of moments, I got a five star rating my first try....
TheRageGamer98 I found him rather easy, I might have been a bit over powered, but I had a bit of trouble with the Caius fight right before the final boss.
I remember the first time I reached this fight, I was at Level 50, with badly developed (yet still powerful) monsters, and every time I managed to whittle them down to Jet Bahamut, it would do its countdown and I'd always either end up dead because I didn't Paradigm Shift fast enough, or reduced to low enough health that I couldn't recover. (Either that, or Cactuarama's auto-revive either did or didn't last long enough to matter.) I flat out left this boss and grinded to max level just to up my survivability. Whether I consider this a good final boss or not is best left for a time when I'm not salty about the whole thing.
I had level 99 on most of my roles but this fight still took me a little while. I was never in danger of dying, I just think that my paradigms could have been better. Overall, it was pretty fun and the music added to its epicness.
The story does get a little lost sometimes, but I was able to follow it pretty well. Time travel stories have a tendency to move in odd circles. Which part of the plot gave you the most trouble?
2:29 is amazing! sounds out of paradise and hell, it's own space.. Also those freaking drums at the preludes!!!! Also, 0:12 those freaking techno-synchro touchs!!!
I love both XIII and XIII-2 The 13 saga definitely has my favorite story, characters, everythang. Yes I've played other FF such as 6, 7, 8, 10, etc. (Only finished 7 and 10 but oh well :P)
Yeah, the ending sucked. Even you just think you've saved the world, you ended up destroying it instead. I mean are we even playing the right final fantasy series?!
+Eduardo Prieto and to add insult to injury Lightning returns story is even WORSE than FF13-2's shitty ending. FF13 just kept getting worse and worse. basically FF13>FF13-2>FF13-3
+heyjeySigma Madness. Lightning Returns story is fairly straight forward, but its substantially better told then anything else in the trilogy. The game itself also is damn close to being the best game in the series, and was the second best JRPG of the generation outside Lost Oddsey.
+Rainbow Dashtruction ....stop your drug intake dude. Calling LR''s story great, and one of the best RPGs in the generation is one of the most ridiculous things ive heard in a long while. it was extremely shallow in every damn aspects. the characters got ruined with little screen time, the whole chaos thing is freaking dumb and sounds like something from a fanfic written by a 15 yr old, the graphics (textures) are the worst in the series, etc. You're giving the game waay too much credit. Lets get real, its a RUSHED game, only produced to milk the series.. and to get thirsty people like you to buy it. the gameplay IS good tho, that's its best redeeming factor. Not gonna lie about that.
heyjeySigma It had excellent game design. Incredibly fun combat. A story which while simple, was incredibly well told. It had a fantastic atmosphere. An incredibly well made world. The chaos thing was absolutely fine and made sense in the universe. And it ended the series excellently. Yes it was 'rushed' in a sense that it is a far shorter game then XIII and XIII-2, but it WAS the best JRPG of GEN 7 outside Lost Oddssey. Nothing else came close, Not XIII or XIII-2, not The Last Story, not Xenoblade Chronicles, not The World Ends With You. Nothing. Lost Oddssey and Lightning Returns both stand as symbols of the quality of both old school and new school JRPG design.
While watching my friend play this battle, I was shaky. It was that intense for me. He managed to beat it the second time around (thanks in part to me noticing the "Counts") The first time, Serah and the monster were taken out by Exaflare *shudder* and Noel only had a little hp left, then Garnet slashed him. For those still having trouble, remember this: WHEN YOU SEE "COUNT: 1", SWITCH TO TORTOISE IMMEDIATLY.
think about it, you're one hell of a worthy opponent against sephiroth in a competition of "who's being the best overrated badass" here. your appearance, personality, your sexy voice and, of course, your powers are worthy to be sephiroth's rival.
A good man...speaking the truth, This is indeed the universe of Final Fantasy XIII-2, And T'is only the game we should be speaking about...when in such Videos... Sephiroth is a stunning being, how it still persists to yet live, in the memories of others and the life of the planet itself, shows how you can say...''stubborn'' to die off he truly is... However, let us remain to the Discussion of Final Fantasy XIII-2 Universe, when in it's videos...
Sephiroth became nuts because he thought he was Jenova's son. Actually, his father, Dr. Hojo manipulated him while his real mother, Dr. Lucretia Crescent, tried to care for him, but had her son experimented on by Dr. Hojo. Vincent Valentine's story explains this backstory.
Did anybody get the chills with this boss fight? I've played quite a lot of FF games and I don't think any final boss of the series gave me as much chills at this one, especially with the build-up with Jet Bahamut and because of this tense song. I was like, "Oh, shit!" and then.... two more suddenly showed up out of nowhere?!?
how do u said that Caius isnt deserve his villain status ? Caius to me has something in him that makes me like him more than the Icon Sephiroth...His desire to protect Yeul was his motto in his life and he was also in pain due to his guardian power "heart of chaos" if i remember right and in the end it was a burden ...
Fascinating theme, sadly i could not listen to it, i was quite busy focusing on both Noel and Serah at the time, and my hearing when in such a form, isn't meant to hear the tunes playing in the background, but the heartbeat and breathing of my enemy... Interesting how Noel's Heartbeat was far above it's normal rate... While Serah...she was interestingly...calm at the time.
actually i'm pointing out that both villains are top rank in confusingly awesome antagonists. sorry about the essay. i'm just trying to figure out which one is the best.
i'll give the game this, it makes the autocombat function as fast paced and intense as timing a button mash needs to get. seriously, even if you play with the whole paradigm shift and autobattle system alone, this game is geared to making it as intense and difficult as possible. i'm always asking myself "what if he uses gigaflare next? is he gonna heal? are they gonna respawn? how many turns until they do?!" this game is set to ensuring that you get the timing of your plans right.
etro is apparently the progenitor of mankind in final fantasy 13, all humans are a piece of her and each one is given a fragment of chaos, this chaos in turn gives them visions, like the ones seen in final fantasy 13, you know, like when sazh's illusion shoots vanille.
@LordMalice6d9 The Boss consists of three Bahamut versions. At some point a Countdown will begin. Is one Bahamut alive at the end he will cast Gigaflare, with two alive it will be Teraflare and if all three Bahamuts are still alive you get Exaflare and you are with nearly 100% chance dead (don't know if you still have a chance with tortoise and high levelled characters, might test it out at some point)
screw that they finally created a song that surpasses his theme ive been waiting for something as epic as this. i mean the song creator made the theme with surpassing sephiroths theme in mind doesnt get more epic than that
@DarkDyllon If they added a fourth Bahamut, I would've jumped up and down with joy. It just makes the game that much more challenging and fun for me. Speaking of which, they really toned down the difficulty on this game, didn't they? Compared to FFXIII (the Undying, for example), this is cakewalk.
Oh, really? Well, you sent so many messages my way that the only one my inbox caught was your one about Sephiroth. By all means, keep trying to find the better villain and be prepared to back it up like you have been already. Speaking of which, I was actually impressed by the essay you gave me, seeing as how not much people do sophisticated arguments on TH-cam as they should be. Although next time, try just sending me a personal message rather than taking up comment space. ^_^
Oh! how i love this beast of a music! It contains all the evilness! and powerfulness! Gwahahah! Nay i ain't doin' le ol' cliche: ''Muahahah'' Anyways...freaking awesome Final Bawss theme. Thanks for extending it!
yeah, i was a little lazy on leveling, both characters and monsters, Exa-Flares damage is pretty nuts as it is, but on a low level party, its pretty much death.
one faces off with an orphaned demi-god, the child of a goddess. the other faces off with the despairing dragon king whose charge is forced to die over and over for all eternity forcing him to destroy time itself. an entire host of heroes face off with fate irreversible as sacrifice dominates inward potential, inevitably leading to death and despair overwhelming. these three lights in the darkness create the stage for a final fantasy while a god tries to overcome death itself behind the scenes.
but as for the maker, pulse, he's kind of like a brother to etro, both he and the other god, lindzei are trying to manage the universe while their father bhunervelze or whatever, tries to find his mother in the realm of death so that he can put an end to death itself. etro wasn't given any duties because she resembles the mother of bhuner-whatshisname, this caused her to tear herself into pieces with grief, thus creating the humans of ff-13, when she saw them, she gave them all bits of chaos.
but at least he wasn't bewildering, we could tell when he flew the coop, we had no such benefit with caius, the guy was bound by duty, and suffering, if that wasn't bad enough we had to see it punctuated mid story with the deaths of multiple yuels every single time. it was especially bad when he was there, gritting his teeth in sorrow and swearing yet another oath amid countless oaths that he surely made to strengthen his resolve.
Cauis is the better villain because: 1.) His reasons and backstory 2.) His abilties (when you have power of time and ultima under your belt, you're something) 3.) He turns into Bahamut and then into an even badder Bahamut with an arsenal of moves that can utterly destroy if not careful (including the ungodly Terra-flare and without the tortoise shift, it can almost one-shot you.)
Got the guy on my 3rd attempt. the first two Time's I got caught Napping and he got me With a Power move when I should've been playing Defense...also didn't help that I didn't realise until the 3rd go that the Ebon Seed's could be destroyed to avoid the Damage they cause. LOL
Caius can't be killed, but that does not mean he can't be incapacitated or overwhelmed. You don't necessarily have to kill someone in order to beat them. Besides, it would be counterproductive for Sephiroth to kill Caius, since his death means the end of the world.
If we're comparing, I think every FF villain should be compared to Kefka. Yeah he was a clown, but if you look into his backstory, and think about his final dialogue, it's really quite tragic. Plus he's the only villain to have succeeded in actually destroying most of the world; turning it into a mostly dead and foreign wasteland.
If you did any sort of grinding then you were over-leveled, they basically took the need out of grinding in FF13-2. Monsters are a big part of it too though, Gilgamesh and Valfodr Lv99 are really the only challenging bosses in FF13-2.
after all, what is a better dream than wanting a shining future, and willing to throw down the wicked and evil to achieve that dream? trouble is, his version of "wicked" had been distorted by his madness. it's a shame, because he was one of the most powerful final fantasy heroes in existence before he became a final fantasy himself.....
If I had to choose, he's a good guy gone wrong. I mean, seeing the one you're supposed to protect die hundreds of times before you ought to drive someone a little crazy enough to kill the Goddess to stop it all from happening again.
Before Jet Bahamut : "Pffff, this game is so easy. I beat it without even unlocking the healer job so far... And on Normal difficulty!" After Jet Bahamut : "Yep, time to grind healer to 99"
@zero45Gabriel Uhm, is this really the place to bring up Final Fantasy VII or Sephiroth's theme? I mean sure, this is Final Fantasy territory, but it's Final Fantasy XIII-2. Comparing elements between two games often causes arguments. Sephiroth's theme is amazing, but please watch where you talk about it.
you should find a white cactuar in dying world and train its feral link cuz it's ability is to set revive in case you die. check out a video on someone defeating the final boss with no crystarium usage.
Hmph... My chaos has already spread far and wide... The way it has however, is just unknown to perhaps a person such as yourself...as to many others it is... All i do is grin, and watch the very time itself flow before my own eyes, i see the chaos changing the very history! Embrace the terror... For you shall know the true meaning of life! in the end of days! At Novus Partus! I shall await all who challenge me!
definitely a good theme for an outright confusing as all hell villain. seriously, is he a good guy gone wrong or a bad guy with guilt issues? why is this guy becoming almost as popular as SEPHIROTH?!
sephiroth is the best available example of a good guy gone wrong. countless orphans can relate to wanting to know who their mothers or fathers were. imagine then, what sephiroth must have felt when he found out a truth better left in the dark he pulled it up from. before all of that, he was a full blown hero, not simply a popularity icon, the guy was a genuine good guy. he had his problems, but so did all other final fantasy heroes. in the end, even his course had some good in it.
Oh, look! An awesome song loop! Let's make comments and act like we are people that don't exist! How about you be yourself and stop acting like children?
Not really I am not going to argue a lot about it or because I am a "Sephiroth fan" but in a fight Caius would do fairly well and maybe can rival Sephiroth but he cannot kill Sephiroth, remember the only reason Sephiroth loses to Cloud is because: 1. He nevers shows his true powers. 2. Overconfidence etc etc... It was even stated by Square Enix that Sephiroth true powers are unknown, go to the wikia and search it for yourself. Besides Caius cannot be killed but he can be defeated as shown.
You like FF XIII and XIII-2?
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO LIKES THEM.
No only this ost.
@@pipporossi5319 shut up, the games are amazing
I like them, but they're not good lol
I don't like 'em, I love 'em!
Tbh, I don't care if many people hates this game, FFXIII is always banging for me
XIII was OKAY. Wasn’t crazy about the story or the gameplay even, (combat felt more on the generic side, kinda like FFIX to me) but the visual presentation and music are honestly what kept me playing.
XIII-2 was surprisingly fantastic and a criminally underrated entry in the FF series. That one pulled a 180 on me in terms of how I felt about it. I mean of course I had to change Ashley and Noel’s costumes to the Mass Effect black suits, and I wasn’t crazy about the damn Mog, but beyond that? The game’s music, characters, story were all amazingly well-executed imo, even if I wasn’t crazy about the pacing at times. Most of all, this game’s mechanics and how they were married into the time traveling mechanics of the story (and the larger XIII-2 story) were perfect as far as I’m concerned.
0:13 - 0:21
I played through this game again and hearing this with the cinematic going off ox showing Serah & Noel before panning to the dragons reminded me of why I adore FF13. This trilogy just has a special place in my heart.
My favorite moment of this entire game along side 1:41, those techno synths are just amazing!!!
11 years later and this amazing song is still my favorite ending boss theme EVER! Uematsu is a genius!
This track was composed by Naoshi Mizuta and another composer. Unfortunately Uematsu didn't compose for this game but the OST is amazing too.
@@Leon8937Probably Masashi Hamauzu. He's been the main composer for the FF games since Uematsu left.
You don't even know the composer, uff. Tip: its not Uematsu!
I just washed my dishes to this... And they're all broken because I exaflared them. ;~;
Faith Starcraft.😂
@@blackrayal80 Mmm low IQ
Epic
Must say despite the low reputation of xiii, this boss is very well designed with the theme. The theme is epic while portraying the power of the almighty gods/bahamut.
These 3 bahamuts are also very well designed. Garnet has a pose of extreme savagery ready to throw down, amber has a pose of what alot of Buddhist goddess do, a pose of wisdom seeing how it is more align to magic. While jet strikes the classic crossarm bahamut pose, literally asserting dominance with its overwhelming strength
XIII's low reputation is due to it being a very linear game with a weird combat system, that's all. Music, characters and even story are pretty good.
@@Hollow.Midnight I feel like the whole linear argument is weird because ff10 was just like that, a hallway game with an open world towards the end. The combat system was odd for the time with 13, but then again I found 12's to be even weirder than that tbh gameplay wise. For me they improved upon the combat for 13-2 from its predecessor, however I personally didn't enjoy the story of that one. It doesn't mesh well with the first, thankfully they didn't make the same mistake with Lightning Returns concerning 13-2 and actually made the story make more sense towards it. All in all the 13 trilogy was something I enjoyed and stuck through (pre-ordered all 3 at the time). However I've only ever replayed and actually beaten more than once 13 and LR. That's just my take and experience on it tho
@@hinachan70 I agree with everything you said. I love the XIII-Trilogy and I've played them multiple times. XIII-2's story becomes a mess due to the whole time travel plot, but the combat system was pretty good. I felt like the combat changes they made in LR were unnecessary.
Absolutely!!!
@@Hollow.Midnight Peak combat system*
The buildup from 1:38 to 2:03 into this absolute chaos of menacing electronic sounds is the best thing I've ever heard in a final boss theme.
Not gonna lie, beat Caius that 3rd time and thought the game was over then. Suddenly, Jet Bahamut spawns from the darkness, and I'm like... O_O holy crap...
JTruth9419 Dude...I was playing the game at night, parents sleeping, finally beat Caius 3ºrd time and when Jet Bahamut appears i do that "Screaming inside" face... no lies x)
I was like (oh shit) I have to fight that than I see the others and I screamed ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I HAVE TO FIGHT THREE GIANT DRAGONS THAT CAN HIT ME WITH MEGAFLARE
@@drakofox1362When the countdown begins before they cast Gigaflare use Noel, Serah, and any partner that has the Sentinel ability and switch to Tortoise SEN/SEN/SEN which is a complete damage shield to protect them from the Gigaflare attack.
@@starman9458 wish I knew that when I first played the game lol
This game was so underrated. I loved pretty much everything about it. Traveling back and forth through time, changing the future and creating branching paths and paradoxes. Then there was that unexpected bitter-sweet ending. SO Good!
Jet, Garnet and Amber Bahamut imo are the best designs I've seen for Bahamut so far
Dominance and sapience asserted!!!
Everything about this game, including this song, makes it the spiritual successor to the Chrono series: this feels like "Dragon God" aka "Omni Dragon Battle" from Chrono Cross, another fantastic final boss theme.
01:37-2:01
sounds soooo good
yessir!
I don't think I've heard anything better in a video game. It is a master piece
The picture is AMAZING !!!
Jet the leader man with his crossed arms is so badass!!!
When I first saw these guys, I imagined an epic three dragon vs party battle. To my dismay, these guys were taking turns instead of going all out... Ah well.
Yeah, this boss was pretty underwhelming
***** Yeah...I was a little disappointed, and at a high level one of literally defeat them in a matter of moments, I got a five star rating my first try....
Darkwaver Studios it took me more than five tries o.O
TheRageGamer98 I found him rather easy, I might have been a bit over powered, but I had a bit of trouble with the Caius fight right before the final boss.
***** Haven't played that one yet XD
I remember the first time I reached this fight, I was at Level 50, with badly developed (yet still powerful) monsters, and every time I managed to whittle them down to Jet Bahamut, it would do its countdown and I'd always either end up dead because I didn't Paradigm Shift fast enough, or reduced to low enough health that I couldn't recover. (Either that, or Cactuarama's auto-revive either did or didn't last long enough to matter.)
I flat out left this boss and grinded to max level just to up my survivability. Whether I consider this a good final boss or not is best left for a time when I'm not salty about the whole thing.
I obliterateded bahamot with bikini outfit and moogle kupo bow
I had level 99 on most of my roles but this fight still took me a little while. I was never in danger of dying, I just think that my paradigms could have been better. Overall, it was pretty fun and the music added to its epicness.
NOW THIS IS A FINAL BOSS THEME.
ABSOLUTELY
ABSOLUTELY!!!
ABSOLUTELY!!! 👌
Those 3 Bahumuts looked bad ass floating there with their arms crossed. Even though when I FIRST saw them my first thoughts were "oh...shit...."
The story does get a little lost sometimes, but I was able to follow it pretty well. Time travel stories have a tendency to move in odd circles. Which part of the plot gave you the most trouble?
3:43 this part is insane
Pure unadulterated epicness!
ABSOLUTELY!!!
2:29 is amazing! sounds out of paradise and hell, it's own space.. Also those freaking drums at the preludes!!!!
Also, 0:12 those freaking techno-synchro touchs!!!
This game need to be remastered for ps4 and ps5
I still wait. Only came in PC Windows store last year.
and we're still here waiting
@@GabeCarrillo facts my guy
まさにラスボスって感じのゾクゾク感と絶望感がマジパネェ👍
Exactly!!
I love both XIII and XIII-2
The 13 saga definitely has my favorite story, characters, everythang.
Yes I've played other FF such as 6, 7, 8, 10, etc. (Only finished 7 and 10 but oh well :P)
You should definitely try FF 9 !
@@xdanielol4835 I have! I loved it, one of my favorites for sure now :)
too bad lightning return got solid end of the story but i hate the combat very much (manual block is my nightmare in gaming)
This took me an hour to finally beat them but it still killed me twice with dying sun
At level 99 all roles it took three minutes :3
OMG Caius I am your biggest fan, the way you rolf stomped Serah even in death was magic!
Caius is the GOAT of all final fantasy games
@@caiusballad4162Indeed, my fellow antagonist.
Ah, yes. The Three WyrmKings of Chaos: Chaos Garnet, Chaos Amber, and Chaos Jet. Loved the fight, loved the music. COULD. NOT. STAND. EXAFLARE!
It doesn't hold a candle to Nobuo's final boss themes, but I will say this is probably the best one I've heard since he left Square.
That's unique in its own good way.
Dude this track surpasses EVERY Nobuo final boss theme.
I got excited when I killed the Bahamuts because I thought: "Finally, I´m going to see Serah´s weeding..." (yeah, sure)... .__:
Yeah, the ending sucked.
Even you just think you've saved the world, you ended up destroying it instead.
I mean are we even playing the right final fantasy series?!
+Eduardo Prieto and to add insult to injury Lightning returns story is even WORSE than FF13-2's shitty ending.
FF13 just kept getting worse and worse. basically FF13>FF13-2>FF13-3
+heyjeySigma Madness. Lightning Returns story is fairly straight forward, but its substantially better told then anything else in the trilogy. The game itself also is damn close to being the best game in the series, and was the second best JRPG of the generation outside Lost Oddsey.
+Rainbow Dashtruction ....stop your drug intake dude. Calling LR''s story great, and one of the best RPGs in the generation is one of the most ridiculous things ive heard in a long while.
it was extremely shallow in every damn aspects. the characters got ruined with little screen time, the whole chaos thing is freaking dumb and sounds like something from a fanfic written by a 15 yr old, the graphics (textures) are the worst in the series, etc. You're giving the game waay too much credit.
Lets get real, its a RUSHED game, only produced to milk the series.. and to get thirsty people like you to buy it.
the gameplay IS good tho, that's its best redeeming factor. Not gonna lie about that.
heyjeySigma It had excellent game design. Incredibly fun combat. A story which while simple, was incredibly well told. It had a fantastic atmosphere. An incredibly well made world. The chaos thing was absolutely fine and made sense in the universe. And it ended the series excellently.
Yes it was 'rushed' in a sense that it is a far shorter game then XIII and XIII-2, but it WAS the best JRPG of GEN 7 outside Lost Oddssey. Nothing else came close, Not XIII or XIII-2, not The Last Story, not Xenoblade Chronicles, not The World Ends With You. Nothing.
Lost Oddssey and Lightning Returns both stand as symbols of the quality of both old school and new school JRPG design.
While watching my friend play this battle, I was shaky. It was that intense for me. He managed to beat it the second time around (thanks in part to me noticing the "Counts") The first time, Serah and the monster were taken out by Exaflare *shudder* and Noel only had a little hp left, then Garnet slashed him. For those still having trouble, remember this: WHEN YOU SEE "COUNT: 1", SWITCH TO TORTOISE IMMEDIATLY.
think about it, you're one hell of a worthy opponent against sephiroth in a competition of "who's being the best overrated badass" here. your appearance, personality, your sexy voice and, of course, your powers are worthy to be sephiroth's rival.
can't do any longer but since im a nice guy, ill be doing other songs a little longer now for 20 mins from now on.
Enraged Legendary Sentient. Complex Doom fans know
A good man...speaking the truth, This is indeed the universe of Final Fantasy XIII-2, And T'is only the game we should be speaking about...when in such Videos...
Sephiroth is a stunning being, how it still persists to yet live, in the memories of others and the life of the planet itself, shows how you can say...''stubborn'' to die off he truly is...
However, let us remain to the Discussion of Final Fantasy XIII-2 Universe, when in it's videos...
Sephiroth became nuts because he thought he was Jenova's son. Actually, his father, Dr. Hojo manipulated him while his real mother, Dr. Lucretia Crescent, tried to care for him, but had her son experimented on by Dr. Hojo. Vincent Valentine's story explains this backstory.
Nice spoilers.
Carlos Tyros smh
HA
Ichigo how did you know this what did I tell you about traveling to other universes?
***** then.. how about your anime ?, didnt move along ?
Did anybody get the chills with this boss fight? I've played quite a lot of FF games and I don't think any final boss of the series gave me as much chills at this one, especially with the build-up with Jet Bahamut and because of this tense song. I was like, "Oh, shit!" and then.... two more suddenly showed up out of nowhere?!?
Such an awesome fight! I love them and their theme song, it's amazing!!!
2:20 is amazing.
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how do u said that Caius isnt deserve his villain status ? Caius to me has something in him that makes me like him more than the Icon Sephiroth...His desire to protect Yeul was his motto in his life and he was also in pain due to his guardian power "heart of chaos" if i remember right and in the end it was a burden ...
@Ryona76 simply used my mac to screenshot it and then i edited the photo to make it like this and uploaded it on youtube.
Fascinating theme, sadly i could not listen to it, i was quite busy focusing on both Noel and Serah at the time, and my hearing when in such a form, isn't meant to hear the tunes playing in the background, but the heartbeat and breathing of my enemy...
Interesting how Noel's Heartbeat was far above it's normal rate...
While Serah...she was interestingly...calm at the time.
actually i'm pointing out that both villains are top rank in confusingly awesome antagonists.
sorry about the essay.
i'm just trying to figure out which one is the best.
When Jet Bahamut poked his head out from the Chaos in the sky, I literally shivered and couldn't breathe for about 2 seconds.
Here's for my beautiful fellow FF fans. 1:36
3:04 makes me feel so alive
2:01!!!
This fight was amazing but it would have been more amazing if Lightning helped like how Snow helped against that big Tomato monster thing
i'll give the game this, it makes the autocombat function as fast paced and intense as timing a button mash needs to get.
seriously, even if you play with the whole paradigm shift and autobattle system alone, this game is geared to making it as intense and difficult as possible.
i'm always asking myself "what if he uses gigaflare next? is he gonna heal? are they gonna respawn? how many turns until they do?!" this game is set to ensuring that you get the timing of your plans right.
I know that feeling I was terrified of when all three showed up and basically nuked me with exaflare
the 3 bahamuth are amazing!
etro is apparently the progenitor of mankind in final fantasy 13, all humans are a piece of her and each one is given a fragment of chaos, this chaos in turn gives them visions, like the ones seen in final fantasy 13, you know, like when sazh's illusion shoots vanille.
Maybe people hate them because they're so different... O.o
I loved the Crystalarium (I apologize if I misspelled it)
@LordMalice6d9 The Boss consists of three Bahamut versions. At some point a Countdown will begin. Is one Bahamut alive at the end he will cast Gigaflare, with two alive it will be Teraflare and if all three Bahamuts are still alive you get Exaflare and you are with nearly 100% chance dead (don't know if you still have a chance with tortoise and high levelled characters, might test it out at some point)
screw that they finally created a song that surpasses his theme ive been waiting for something as epic as this. i mean the song creator made the theme with surpassing sephiroths theme in mind doesnt get more epic than that
@DarkDyllon If they added a fourth Bahamut, I would've jumped up and down with joy. It just makes the game that much more challenging and fun for me. Speaking of which, they really toned down the difficulty on this game, didn't they? Compared to FFXIII (the Undying, for example), this is cakewalk.
Oh, really? Well, you sent so many messages my way that the only one my inbox caught was your one about Sephiroth. By all means, keep trying to find the better villain and be prepared to back it up like you have been already. Speaking of which, I was actually impressed by the essay you gave me, seeing as how not much people do sophisticated arguments on TH-cam as they should be. Although next time, try just sending me a personal message rather than taking up comment space. ^_^
There is still much yet to be seen, my follower of chaos...
Little bit com to stiff stagger, 3 rav to hurry stagger, 3 com to finish, 3 meds to save time, 3 sen for k.o. moves
2:00 Those Synth show the freaking paroxysm of evilness !!! really epic Boss theme.
Oh! how i love this beast of a music!
It contains all the evilness! and powerfulness!
Gwahahah!
Nay i ain't doin' le ol' cliche: ''Muahahah''
Anyways...freaking awesome Final Bawss theme.
Thanks for extending it!
rich. you're the one the keeps doing that the most throughout the game.
who else got cocky and ate an Exa-Flare to the face? no one, only me... shit.
I took 2... didn't survive the second one
yeah, i was a little lazy on leveling, both characters and monsters, Exa-Flares damage is pretty nuts as it is, but on a low level party, its pretty much death.
I did, I broke his shield with magic on the first cycle and thought ''let me get in a few more hits'' then he does Exa-Flare lol.
SHIT, man...you summarized both perfectly...where do you get your weed? i'm kidding. I just watched grandma's boy and i can't get it out of my head.
one faces off with an orphaned demi-god, the child of a goddess.
the other faces off with the despairing dragon king whose charge is forced to die over and over for all eternity forcing him to destroy time itself.
an entire host of heroes face off with fate irreversible as sacrifice dominates inward potential, inevitably leading to death and despair overwhelming.
these three lights in the darkness create the stage for a final fantasy while a god tries to overcome death itself behind the scenes.
but as for the maker, pulse, he's kind of like a brother to etro, both he and the other god, lindzei are trying to manage the universe while their father bhunervelze or whatever, tries to find his mother in the realm of death so that he can put an end to death itself.
etro wasn't given any duties because she resembles the mother of bhuner-whatshisname, this caused her to tear herself into pieces with grief, thus creating the humans of ff-13, when she saw them, she gave them all bits of chaos.
My favorite part starts at 1:35
This one, and Cantata Mortis & God in Fire from Dissidia 012.
but at least he wasn't bewildering, we could tell when he flew the coop,
we had no such benefit with caius, the guy was bound by duty, and suffering, if that wasn't bad enough we had to see it punctuated mid story with the deaths of multiple yuels every single time. it was especially bad when he was there, gritting his teeth in sorrow and swearing yet another oath amid countless oaths that he surely made to strengthen his resolve.
Cauis is the better villain because:
1.) His reasons and backstory
2.) His abilties (when you have power of time and ultima under your belt, you're something)
3.) He turns into Bahamut and then into an even badder Bahamut with an arsenal of moves that can utterly destroy if not careful (including the ungodly Terra-flare and without the tortoise shift, it can almost one-shot you.)
Got the guy on my 3rd attempt. the first two Time's I got caught Napping and he got me With a Power move when I should've been playing Defense...also didn't help that I didn't realise until the 3rd go that the Ebon Seed's could be destroyed to avoid the Damage they cause. LOL
Caius can't be killed, but that does not mean he can't be incapacitated or overwhelmed. You don't necessarily have to kill someone in order to beat them. Besides, it would be counterproductive for Sephiroth to kill Caius, since his death means the end of the world.
*fighting the two lackey dragons, klnock em down and take on jet bahamut, he revives em and start counting* :wtf u do that for u douche D:
First time i finished this boss i was shaking.
plus, Caius was able to defy a deity. come to think of it, are the maker and the goddess; Etro the same or two seperate deities?
This is on God's iPod, on the slot above Orphan (Phase 1)'s theme.
If we're comparing, I think every FF villain should be compared to Kefka.
Yeah he was a clown, but if you look into his backstory, and think about his final dialogue, it's really quite tragic.
Plus he's the only villain to have succeeded in actually destroying most of the world; turning it into a mostly dead and foreign wasteland.
If you did any sort of grinding then you were over-leveled, they basically took the need out of grinding in FF13-2.
Monsters are a big part of it too though, Gilgamesh and Valfodr Lv99 are really the only challenging bosses in FF13-2.
3:40 - 4:05 dope af
I know. I wasn't bashing you. I was just listing another epic one.
Bahamut x 3 + bad ass music = one fucking epic final boss fight.
after all, what is a better dream than wanting a shining future, and willing to throw down the wicked and evil to achieve that dream?
trouble is, his version of "wicked" had been distorted by his madness.
it's a shame, because he was one of the most powerful final fantasy heroes in existence before he became a final fantasy himself.....
IRON BABIES NURSERY MUSIC. SLEEP TIGHT, DON'T LET THE DEMI SPELLS BITE
If I had to choose, he's a good guy gone wrong. I mean, seeing the one you're supposed to protect die hundreds of times before you ought to drive someone a little crazy enough to kill the Goddess to stop it all from happening again.
@FruggleFarkle123 yeah most of enemies who was hard to kill are to easy now less challeing
Before Jet Bahamut : "Pffff, this game is so easy. I beat it without even unlocking the healer job so far... And on Normal difficulty!"
After Jet Bahamut : "Yep, time to grind healer to 99"
Have fun with the Gilgamesh DLC boss then....by far the hardest
@zero45Gabriel Uhm, is this really the place to bring up Final Fantasy VII or Sephiroth's theme? I mean sure, this is Final Fantasy territory, but it's Final Fantasy XIII-2. Comparing elements between two games often causes arguments. Sephiroth's theme is amazing, but please watch where you talk about it.
The sad thing is, you would probably listen to this for longer than the actual loop.
im referring to the one-winged angel arguement that's referred to xHugoPkmnx's comment.
you should find a white cactuar in dying world and train its feral link cuz it's ability is to set revive in case you die. check out a video on someone defeating the final boss with no crystarium usage.
exactly. :)
I remember this three's name GarnetBahumat -Redish color
Amber Bahumat- Yellowish color
Jet Bahumat - Amethyst and purplish color
ExaFlare! That move never happened to me, guess I'm lucky. X3
@VincentF0X This one, and Sephiroth's one from FF7 on the PS1 :)
Hmph...
My chaos has already spread far and wide...
The way it has however, is just unknown to perhaps a person such as yourself...as to many others it is...
All i do is grin, and watch the very time itself flow before my own eyes, i see the chaos changing the very history!
Embrace the terror...
For you shall know the true meaning of life! in the end of days!
At Novus Partus! I shall await all who challenge me!
To put it simply, ExaFlare equates to: 3 Dragons + 3 MegaFlares = 1 brutally painful death
definitely a good theme for an outright confusing as all hell villain.
seriously, is he a good guy gone wrong or a bad guy with guilt issues?
why is this guy becoming almost as popular as SEPHIROTH?!
sephiroth is the best available example of a good guy gone wrong.
countless orphans can relate to wanting to know who their mothers or fathers were.
imagine then, what sephiroth must have felt when he found out a truth better left in the dark he pulled it up from.
before all of that, he was a full blown hero, not simply a popularity icon, the guy was a genuine good guy. he had his problems, but so did all other final fantasy heroes.
in the end, even his course had some good in it.
Oh, look! An awesome song loop! Let's make comments and act like we are people that don't exist! How about you be yourself and stop acting like children?
By the grace of the ten thousand bound gods of light and shadow, THIS MAN HAS NO LIFE!
there, I said it.
Paradigm Shift to the max!
EXACTLY!!!
Yeah, but it's always nicer to compliment another song rather than bashing it, even if you don't mean it. Keeps conflicts away.
Not really I am not going to argue a lot about it or because I am a "Sephiroth fan" but in a fight Caius would do fairly well and maybe can rival Sephiroth but he cannot kill Sephiroth, remember the only reason Sephiroth loses to Cloud is because:
1. He nevers shows his true powers.
2. Overconfidence
etc etc... It was even stated by Square Enix that Sephiroth true powers are unknown, go to the wikia and search it for yourself. Besides Caius cannot be killed but he can be defeated as shown.