As with Luxerion, I really liked the setting of Yusnaan - the party city, with bright colours and fireworks marking the hour. Also liked the random little FF tunes belted out by the street performers like Battle on the Big Bridge and Final Fantasy. (Yes, I know in Luxerion they also do whatever the hell song Serah likes, I like the nostalgia factor of these ok ) and I also liked that they explained the Fal'Cie making all the resources for the world, making it the industrial capital. That was a good bit of world building.

However, the Yusnaan sequence was really really forced. "We want Lightning to wear a dress and be on stage and we also want her to fight in an arena... how can we tie this to the plot of breaking into the palace to see Snow?" The Sneaking In Special was utterly pointless too. It seemed like a big deal was made about how hard it was to get into the Augur's Quarter, and then Lightning fell down a hole and just found a pass to get in and out anyway, making the sneaking utterly pointless.

I'm also very bored of Colosseums and fighting arenas in RPGs. Boring. It's been done to death a thousand times. I think the only one I really liked was Kingdom Hearts. It's the same every time - YOU'RE A BABY DWEEB YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THESE troutTY MONSTERS... oh wait you're awesome have my babies wonderful hero. smurfing hell. What kind of a prize is a purple smurfing dress anyway? I mean look, I like purple dresses too but when it's a fighting contest for big strong tough types, what smurfing need do they have for a dress? Why would they care? xD

I wouldn't mind arenas if it was an actual tournament against actual characters instead of you being the only person fighting and all you have to fight are monsters. And hell then add some intrigue - maybe the prize money is 5,000 gil but shady dude will give you 10,000 if you take a dive. Maybe there's title belts like pro wrestling and all the associated drama that comes with them. Worst of all was the owner saying "I'll make sure you get a good burial" when I'm about to fight Gremlins. smurfing Gremlins. Are you actually taking the piss? They die in one hit. One smurfing hit. What. WHAT.

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Snow still has the best voice in the series.
Yep, love Troy Baker. In Saints 3 and 4 there's a grubby cockney voice option but I took Troy over that because he is just a beast.
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Shame he's so miserable in this storyline, though. Ruins him, I love the goofy nature he had in the original.
Disagreed strongly on that. I don't think he was all miserable but the misery he did feel was good character development. Having to hold things together for 500 years despite your heart being broken is an enormous burden and it's amazing how strong Snow actually managed to be. He is still the same old goof and makes his usual quips once you stop him turning into a C'ieth.

As with the scene I referred to in my post about Luxerion, again the confrontation with the boss brought out the best in Lightning. She actually seems like she has a personality! For someone who supposedly has had her emotions removed she sure seemed to get pretty emotional. I enjoyed the Snow storyline in and of itself immensely.

...one last word, smurfing have to sneak in at 3 AM? I had to Chronostasis 5 or 6 times to get to smurfing Snow before 6 Whose idea was that