Final Fantasy XIII-3 Lightning Returns - Experiences and Thoughts

[Sephiroth]

Dude, people didn't understand it, that's it. I am going to spoil this to make it clear now.

Many people think the characters have died and were reborn with erased memories.

And that did not happen. That was what the villain wanted but the characters simply began a normal live somewhere else, not as puppets without will, their own consciousness or memories. They are them, just somewhere else. Lightning even says, her new journey has begun but the old one is not over yet. They use words like "born" but it is not the same as long as it is still you. Technically even a rebirth would be happy and peaceful but I understand if people don't want that and it is not the same but it did not happen anyway.

People also have a problem with Lightning being the only character who appears after the credits. Seriously - they all live happily ever after. There is nothing wrong with the explanation that it is a happy ending. Would I like to see Snow and Serah marrying? Yes. But I know anyway that they will live a normal life in peace now. That is all, but not bad. It is the same fairytale ending of every other Final Fantasy. Everyone is back and alive. And they all live happily ever after.

And other things people think of as bad are not relevant for me. Those are the aspects. Nova Chysalia was dead anyway and that the new planet is something we know is no problem but actually awesome for me.

It makes me sad to purposely say bad things about Final Fantasy when they just are not right this way. I always mention the disadvantages (plotholes, not too much freedom) but they must actually exist that way and not something people just misunderstand like story aspects.

And the "claim" is not wrong 95% of the time. I am visiting many Final Fantasy forums for years now and so often I see people who do not understand the stories, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, et cetera and Final Fantasy XIII does not deserve this. It has nothing to do with depth but with seeing things as they are not. And of course there are some other things to consider since often things can only end with the "we could not save everything but it would have been even worse without our choice" way when it comes to what the characters did. The misunderstanding is only lack of information and wrong conclusion with the context. There is no Mass Effect ending, it is a happy ending, they survive and begin a normal life instead of being reborn as mindless puppets without a will and memories after Nova Chrysalia was destroyed, what Bhunivelze wanted. The End. You rather complain about really questionable things but not about an obvious happy end that was announced as being a happy end one year ago. The reason why people don't think of it as happy end is because they did not understand it. The final boss did not get what he wanted. The heroes won and they had to make sacrifices. Have fun on Final Fantasy VI's planet, a planet without magic and an almost infertile landscape which is by the way because of a hype known as "even better than Final Fantasy VII" by so many fans (I don't hate it, I love it, I just want to make it clear that there the disadvantages are nothing people care about).

Believe me, it is happy. They wanted to make it happy and it became happy, no one made it a way it is not happy, so it is just a misunderstanding of things. It is such an incredible (well, that's down to opinions but when it comes to Final Fantasy elements and feelings and some options thar are just very popular normally, it is and I totally like it because of what it is even if theer are some things like always I would have wanted another way but that is normal as well) Final Fantasy and I totally recommend you getting it.

No hard feelings however.