Who gives a chance to the game and can engage in it, will not be disappointed!

I'm like probably most, LRFFXIII assess, for many years a passionate FF gamers. No veteran since the first part, but with heart thereby. As the fan base but with FFXIII then a slowly looming "love-hate" developed and there is no end LRFFXIII, I take the liberty to compare this part with the two predecessors, since it also eh are cohesive parts.
When I then the first ten hours FFXIII gambled, I thought "crass, the series really loses its luster, the critics had not exaggerated," was about the game to ship in the corner, because it was very linear and one with the characters and the story was not yet warm. Today I regret this initial doubts because when I gave the game ne last chance, it was the time more interesting, until I eventually even wanted to gamble anything else (yes, I began to love the game, shame on me !)
That has not changed with FFXIII-2, until I heard a few months ago, the Lightning Returns appear soon and what it (again) for changes brings with it: completely revised combat system, while still a greater freedom than in the predecessor with much more side missions main missions (and therefore already the story of its predecessor, a very little bit weakened) and and and ... accordingly grew again the doubt - but I wanted to know how the saga ends, of course it was already ordered.

Now after a total of 4 passages (2x normal, 2x heavy) and about 100 hours I regret my doubts again. Sure, the fighting and set system was not easy to understand at first, it was known for a time not which way is up and down, what you should do next, and between all the stand the ticking clock. But when times take the hard critics to the heart, you know that even a highly praised FFVII or FFX needed a certain amount of time until you could savor it properly. And Lightning Returns makes after this stage (in my opinion!) Not much wrong. The combat system has set and surprisingly a lot of fun, from the soundtrack ago it's just as awesome as the previous - some familiar and also new pieces with it, one or the other with catchy risk)
The graphic is now really not next-gen (I mention only the trees in the Wildlands as an example!), But not rotten and apart: what already brings the coolest graphics when the content stinks!
Likewise, the hated time factor, which was for many the KO criterion. I came relatively quickly so clear and so I have no problems, they want to plan anything, for me that was not the world - yes I liked it even gradually! Just check regularly chronostasis, in between times make some big opponents flat, which exist in every area and you have enough EP again to obtain this consent. Then you have plenty of time to explore the area or to arrive somewhere in time on a mission objective.

What only the most bothered me was that even more than in its predecessor moved the story into the background, which to me really is one of the most important aspects in a FF and (unfortunately only) in the final stage really captivated. I'm not saying that it was bad! But alone, you could choose the order of the main missions free, gave me only the feeling that I would play a few high gepushte side missions with a few familiar faces. But that's only my opinion and as I said, it was therefore not bad - quite the contrary. If you had to polish off the credits already NEN little tears, because it is now at an end, she can only have been good.

At the end I can definitely say: On the whole, for me it was still a worthy conclusion to the series. If you loved the predecessor, LRFFXIII is a real chance, and one also gets a little bother to familiarize themselves with the system, you will not be disappointed! Who was not quite warm but with Lightning, Snow, Sazh and Co. even then, should be to think twice the better.