Quote Originally Posted by Lexy View Post
Sorry in advance for the slight rant!
XII's ending was a pathetic joke. It's like they realized the game was already incredibly amazing and decided to phone in the ending! I was literally left jaw agape with a look of utter confusion upon my face during and after the ending...
It was SO short, SO sappy and utterly not in keeping with the feel of the rest of the game...just so bad!
But now I'm back to playing the game again, and I guess I can overlook the horrible ending and still appreciate this game as the best video game ever made because the other 99.9% of it is perfect.
(If I force myself to try to see possible positive aspects of the ending, I guess I can say that the brevity and ambiguity of it is nice because it does sort of leave it up to the player to come to certain conclusions- which is good I guess...?!)
I didn't think the ending was bad, but I was looking forward to seeing Fran and Balthier in the 1-year later segment, which is why I was waiting for an after-credit cinematic.

As for what TasteyPies said, I agree. The ending did seem rather abrupt after the extreme length of the game, especially the last dungeon. The last dungeon sucked, and so did the difficulty for the last boss.

Spamming physical attacks+Shock+Curaja was all I had to do and the battle was over in about twenty minutes.

EDIT: Also, concerning Venat: He merged with Vayne or something to create the Undying, and then I assume they both were killed when the Undying was defeated.