Over the weekends, I got to play Final Fantasy XIII-2 for roughly 6-7 hours, thanks to a cousin of mine for letting me play when I stayed over at his house.

I think the story is a good reason why I loathe the concept of time travel as much as I enjoy it. The mind-boggling possibilities are nearly endless. I'm still miffed at how Lightning could so easily take in the idea that she is now bound to Etro and Valhalla without even trying to fight her way out of that place, not after we just saw her fighting against the whole "l'Cie's inevitable fate". And Caius at this point just reeks of Garland from FFI ("Lose yourself in the throes of battle!").

Gameplay got a HUGE improvement since FFXIII. There are many times which I am torn between going forward in story or going back to collect treasure, and the free-to-roam map is exactly what a FF game (or any other RPGs for that matter) should always have. The freedom to customise Noel and Serah's crystarium growth tastes sweet against FFXIII's one-way road of progression. The major battles till now have been very fun to fight in. Getting a perfect cinematic action sequence also felt extremely rewarding to myself and to the inventory. And let's not forget the Temporal Rifts and side quests; Now that's something nostalgic, even though only one numbered game missed out on it.

I will definitely want to keep playing the game to get to the bottom of how is it that Lightning could so easily accept her fate, and to find all the collectibles, but not anytime soon I guess.

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School started for nearly a month, and I'm getting along pretty okay. Audio design, 2D animation, and whole lot of papers to write. No fails, please?

Oh, one last thing. AVENGERS BLEW MY MIND OFF. That is all.