Put XIII-2 back in today, cause I promised I would finish it at some point. Didn't realise my last save game was right before the final boss fight
Sorry, I should say
fights. 3 of them back to back before you even fight the true end boss. But that last boss fight.....
It's ridiculous in many ways. For one, there's 3 enemies to fight, two sub ones and one main one. The idea is you have to kill the two subs before you have any chance of touching the main guy. But here's the thing,
they will get revived, meaning you have to kill them again so you can attack the health of the main guy. Anytime you come to fight the main guy he does a cheap and I mean
cheap attack at the very start, which is unavoidable, and puts you under so many status effects that there is no choice but to heal yourself immediately, already wasting the limited time you have to attack him. His attacks get stronger the more you bring his health down. It means I pretty much constantly have to have a medic at all times, but they're not strong enough to withstand the attacks. It takes forever to chip away at his health, and every round gets faster until you eventually come to attack him but you spend all your time healing and buffing that suddenly the time is over and you're back fighting one of the sub bosses again. Not only that, and this really annoys me, the main guy has a countdown attack, when it reaches 0, and if you are unprepared (which is hard to do)
instant death. Instant. Death. It is absolutely unnecessary in a fight that's so long winded as this. It took me half an hour to get about 75% of his health down and then he goes and does that.
If you die, you either do it again, or revert back to your last savepoint, meaning you have to go through 3 boss battles again before even reaching this point.
Worst of all? I'm not even sure it's worth the hassle. I'm getting nothing out of the story and I'd stop caring about the world and the characters long before this happened.
I'm going to beat it. I will beat the game at some point, I've come too far. But right now? Fuck FFXIII-2.