Quote Originally Posted by WelshWonder View Post
What Aerio and No.78 said.

You find out absolutely tonnes about the history of Gran Pulse from the analectics. Why/who built coocon, why gran pulse is called gran pulse, fal-cie motivation. It's a shame it's not worked into the actual gameplay more. People keep crtisising the plot, holes and lack of development, and it's just a lot of it is in the datalog and most of the analectics aren't obtainable till post game.
Actually, the developers specifically said it was too much work to do in HD. Before the game was even released. So any excuse they come up with in-game is just a cop-out. Hell, in any other Final Fantasy there'd at least be a few survivors left to at least fill you in so you don't HAVE to trudge through the walls of text.

Plus, we ARE answering the question, we're just giving the real answers, not the games half-hearted hand waves.