One thing that surprised me about the ending was Lumina, I was so sure throughout the game that she was some sort of reincarnation of Etro.

Thats true, though I guess for story reasons, the Cocoon fal'cie were sort of designed by the Lindzei to look like the other gods. There was just something about his face that screamed "I'm going to **** you up!" lmao, especially when he was frozen in the crystal at the end, lol.

I wasn't that impressed by Bhuni, he looked too similar to Orphan.

Yeah, having Dahj sleeping again was just more of a rehash of XIII, was nice to have him still around as a secondary character though. I thought seeing everyone all in one place in the ending was great. I was worried that Bhunivelze would look cheap, but the artists of the game did a really good job of making him look like a god.

Sazh never really needed to be in the sequels, His story was pretty much finished with XIII.

Yeah, Sazh's quest was kind of basic too, its weird, he only really showed up at the end of XIII-2 as well, lol. That would make sense, it was nice to finally see Lightning being happy, it all made a lot of sense with her too. I liked Hope's story too, that was a really good twist.

The game really needed a few more main missions, They could have done a proper storyline mission for Mog and Vanille and possibly even a follow up mission for Caius and Yeul since they felt very haphazardly placed in the ending and the conclusion to their mission was unsatisfying.

I think her face changed because she fused with Lumina at the end, she looked a lot more like a grown up Lumina than Lightning.

Yeah Sazh felt like an afterthought in this game, they even gave his Eidolon to Noel.

Yeah, the last day really stood apart from the rest of the game, I wish the rest of the heroes had had a bigger part to play than just a quest each.

I noticed in the post credits, Lightning's face looked a bit different. More realistic, in fact France looked more 'real' and less cartoonish than Nova Crystilla
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/20..._0-d6v4bgx.png
http://gematsu.com/wp-content/upload...po-Trailer.jpg

I kinda find it funny that Sazh showed up late to the 'reunion' lol

Yeah, it looked like it and the whole 'the Crystal Legends happened before you were born' stuff definitely backs it.

I really liked the ending, it's a shame that the game doesn't really have a story until the last day but it's a great last day.

I did it!


....was that Earth?! O_O