Final Fantasy XIII-2

it was shaping up to be a "now go get the good ending" sort of affair.

it dosn't for example make sense that they've failed to save the new cocoon and prevent the world from becoming Valhalla.
If Serah died and the world was saved then that would be fine, but why does she say "thank you" after having a vision and then die and then the world ends?
what was her vision? she saw the world ending and she said thanks? dosn't make sense.

the game as is desperately sets up the need for a sequel or even just extra chapters of DLC.

the amount of 'Lightning' time in the game was a joke and they've really only covered Serah, Neol, Caius, Yeul, Hope and through DLC Sazh (Vanille and Fang are of course not up to anything)

There has to be DLC which continues the story becasue for one, the Coliseum isin't used in the game, Snows adventures and L'Cie status are only mentioned and read in the fragment datalog with the gravitation cores. Lightning's chapter is nothing more then a fleeting one off battle with no alternative outcomes (shocked the paradox scope dosn't change something after the big schpeel Caius' give if you enter Valhalla through the crux with the scope switched on.

I'm holding out until this story is finished. FFXIII was a wonderful speed-based battle system with a story which did nothing once the intro had passed until after the last boss. I loved the ending in XIII, the sense of breaking out of one's doomed divine edict by the belief in one's humanity and causing a sort of miracle by human invention (that the girls used Ragnarok to save cocoon). I though the idea that "it was all Etro, she did all the funny things, was a painful cop-out unless of course they mean in a meta-contextual sense, like Etro is a force discovering her self though reality actualizing(i.e. that is wasn't just a "magic god fixing everything")


In my eyes, the elements of the story which need continuing are:

Large elements:
Lightning v Caius in Valhalla: why does she need Sarah in Valhalla?

Lightning: what is her relationship with Etro, and why is she being evasive when answering wither or not she can coem hoem with Serah("one thing at a time") e.g. is she becoming Etro, or is she becoming a permanent right-hand-angel/knight of Etro's will?

Serah: why do she have a gift similar to Yeul's? is Etro or lightning grooming her for a role (i.e. a divine role, or a role similar to Yeul or lightning etc or Etro's herself)

Etro: is she un-revivable

Neol: is he going to inherent the heart of Chaos and is he going to be Yuel's new guardian, or is is going to become a guardian for Serah in some other divine role?

Snow: why is he L'Cie again, and what Fal'Cie did he interact with/make a deal with, and what was the focus given.

smaller elements:
Why did Mog die when the goddess died. What happens to a person who becomes Cie'th or Crystallized L'Cie with regards Valhalla. i.e. if Valhalla is where you go when you die, then WTF?