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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Throughout the game, characters wonder if the events happening are a dream or reality. By the end of the game, the player is supposed to decide whether they occurred or not.

** Given a game as anticipated as XIII already was is getting ''a sequel''. Then again, given both ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'''s [[Broken Base]]...

** [[Broken Base|Combat system issues aside]], many aspects of the gameplay were changed, such as increased interactions with non-player characters, more refined battle mechanics, better-integrated side-quests, and far less linear maps.

* [[Base Breaker]]:

** Noel. He's either a surprisingly awesome, well-written, and generally pretty cool dude or a suck-ass [[Replacement Scrappy]] for Snow.

* [[Breather Level]]:

** Academia 4XX AF. This comes after the long Augusta Tower segments, and before [[Wham! Episode|Episode 5.]] There are no enemies, and your visit may be very quick, depending on if you collected the Graviton Cores.

** As an optional area, Sunleth Waterscape 400 AF. All seven Fragments are easy to collect, and the boss battle is a joke (of the easy and funny kind).

** Oerba 300 AF and 400 AF, where a small number of base fights are interspersed with paradox events, where you not only get fragments, but gain a side story about Mog in the process.

** The existence of this game in general, considering the mixed reactions that [[Final Fantasy XIII|the first game]] received, and the fact that the wait for Final Fantasy XV is becoming longer and longer as Square spends more and more time on sequels, spin-offs, and DLC.

** Many fans aren't too happy about the Monster System or the whole "Serah and Noel are the only controllable characters." Even less people are happy about Lightning having less than 30 minutes of cutscenes and only being playable for 10 minutes when Square Enix put her on the front cover, 40% of the back cover, is present on a dozen pages of the manual, the soundtrack, the first trailer was all about her, promoted her as the main protagonist for the first six months after XIII-2's reveal, she's been present in all of the trailers, has an action figure, was hyped as having Caius as her "fated rival", etc. Yeah... great job there, Square.

** {{spoiler|The ending of the game is quite a [[Downer Ending]], and also rather confusing, causing the fandom to split between hating the game for its ending or defending it for other merits and saying those who think it's bad "don't get it".}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUOOgNzOv4 Another song getting mixed reactions: Crazy Chocobo, a metal version of the iconic theme]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRZU6b6iKIE A lot of people are mixed about this song too.]

** Noel has gotten this accusation thrown at him a lot since his introduction, as many of the trailers focused heavily on him, rather than the characters people wanted to see more of. This complaint extends to the actual game too, as many felt his spot should have been filled by an already-established character.

** Lightning could also be seen as this: part of the plot is designed to "help her story come full circle"; she gets a set of [[Stripperific]] yet [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]] - complete with a shiny new Gunblade and shield; and she hogs the cover of the NA boxart even though she's not the main protagonist! [[Ms. Fanservice|Oh and there's the]] [[Male Gaze|aforementioned nude shot.]]

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ez3K0GgqE Lightning's] battle with Chaos-Bahamut (whom, you'll note, looks more-or-less exactly like ''[[Advent Children]]'''s Fiend-Bahamut). Hope's entrance in the latest trailer had plenty of fans screaming "yes" and "awesome!"

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: The [[Broken Base|aforementioned]] "Crazy Chocobo" is ''hysterical''. It's a heavy metal version of the standard Chocobo theme, but the lyrics are...[[Narm Charm|about a]] [[Captain Obvious|Chocobo]].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGCOKEmkY40 Yeul's Theme].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_1XzRkhcg&feature=related Not to mention the theme that plays when Lightning fights Chaos-Bahamut]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuPV_TGy-U8 Lets not forget the new battle theme now.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwI749rU0g&feature=player_embedded#! The Archylte Steppe theme was leaked. And it is fantastic.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCM2ay8cz8 Chaotic Labyrinth] is perfect for the final dungeon, plus feels like it's from ''[[Silent Hill]]'.

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The dev team honours the late storyboard artist ,Yoshinori Kanada, in the game by including a scene he intended in the first before his death: Odin cradling Lightning in their descent after Lightning uses the Zantetsuken.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Yeul.

** It must be due to {{spoiler|Sunleth Waterscape 400AF}} that "Crazy Chocobo" suddenly had a boost in fanbase.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMm7Oeb1_64&feature=related Helps that its backed] by awesome music.

** Once you get Victory Mode on the slot machine, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfu0XBf8kmk Blinded By Light] starts playing. Keep going and you'll get Double Victory Mode, and Eidolons plays. Hell yes.

** When you encounter Aloeidia in the Yaschas Massif 010 AF, the screen freezes on Noel doing a flying jump kick before you enter battle. It's incredibly corny to watch.

** Serah's overly dramatic pose when catching and aiming her bow moments before the first Atlas fight, especially since she doesn't even fire a single arrow beforehand.

*** Medics: Flanitor, Green Chocobo, PuPu (DLC)

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Serah and Noel are reviled by some and frequently accused of being less cool than the playable cast of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''.

** Serah herself too.

* [[Scrappy Level]]:

** Academia 400 AF, due to the high encounter rate and the fact that you can't run from any of them. Do it correctly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9373EgzJcmE with a turbo fire controller] [[Game Breaker|and well...]] [[Peninsula of Power Leveling|Have fun]].

*** Oh, you want to have a 100% beastiary? Have fun doing this ''twice'' because of the three monsters only found in one part of the area (which is just east of where the big cactuar is at), you can only find 3 monsters for one time only, two of which will battle against you. You'll need to do a Time Reversal just to get the other monster because it's a one-time spawn only.

** AF 4XX Academia just because of the Captain Cryptic quiz. He'll ''randomly spawn in any area'' and the only clues you'll have are from the townspeople which isn't really helping that much.

** And then there are some of them that have a ''time limit.'' Oh and some of them also are randomized as well.

** "Oh, but surely there's a guide"- Guide my ass! Every puzzle is totally freaking random!! And you ''have'' to do these if you want all 160 fragments...AGGHHH!!

* [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]]: Snow/Serah shippers and Serah/Noel shippers go pretty hard at one another.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: The true ending, if you ignore the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]], is this is a nutshell. {{spoiler|Serah dies, Mog dies, Etro is dead and the entire world will die with her, Lightning is crystallized (''by her own choice'', as stated on a Fragment), and Caius has won.}}

 

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