After defeating the final boss, things go back to normal, the sun is shining, the happy-go-lucky music has started, you get to see the fruits of your labour, everyone celebrating.

All of a sudden, everything goes up shit's creek without a paddle. Darkness, evil portals, explosions. No explanation why, either the boss isn't really defeated or something just pulled a Necron. Time for the "real" final battle, right?

Nope. Roll the credits, game ends.

After defeating the final boss, Serah and Noel return through a portal to Academia 500AF to witness mankind launch it's new Cocoon to replace the one that fell at the end of FFXIII. The sun is shining, the happy JRPG ending music starts, they re-unite with Hope and Sazh. You've got your nice ending FMV to watch of everybody celebrating.

Then randomly, all of a sudden, Serah drops dead. She just collapses and is proclaimed dead. To add to the oddness of it all, the happy music continues to play while she's dead, lol. The sky then begins to darken and the Moogle drops dead too. Portals start to open up and some kind of apocalypse starts pouring through them.

It then cuts to a scene showing that Lightning is also dead.

"To be continued..."

Credits.

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I didn't enjoy XIII until the game opened up more with the hunts from the Archytle Steppe. It was disappointing this XIII-2's Monster Infusion crap is a monotonous grind of time and useless if you already killed everything without even attempting to make some kind of ultimate Cloudburst or Chocobo or w/e.

I thought it was about time for some crazy dark sad OMG we really F*'d the whole game ending. By far the most controversial ending I have heard of in a while with no extra "happy everyone singing ending." Being that XIII took a ton of slack from crappy whiny character development to even handling Snow and his bs I almost grinned that that the entire universe collapsed. The new character and nostalgic visits were pretty cool and emotionally uplifting, Noel was decent. Mog talking is literally like giving R2-D2 a voice so I understand how that destroyed many people's idea as it did mine as well. Mog Voice should have been wise Hugo Weaving voice or something other than whiny asian girl IMO.

From story time standpoint and from reading fragments collected the story was semi-coherent if you just went along with it. In order for the future to turn correct the past changes as well to coincide with the now current future. An example being a broken plate from the future now the past plate would start developing cracks to coincide with that. There is a ton of time paradox phenomenon that any physics professor would literally cry from but for some reason it made sense (in as much sense as any JRPG) if you just said "ok" and went with it.

With Etro dead since she gave Caius her life force or heart and changed time by literally assisting all the players from XIII save Cocoon the area of Valhalla and the Void would spread because she is not there to control it after Noel slays Caius yet doesn't have the will to become the next guardian. Moogle dies as moogle is also a part of Etro (discovered in a fragment text story). Serah was supposed to be a Yeul or a future changed Yeul so after seeing a new future she dies happily...meaning somehow its all supposed to work out...somehow...probably via a trilogy.

All time, death/life etc. cease...hence chaos. Lightning isn't dead but rather on Etro's throne encased in crystal much like Vanille and Fang from XIII. Plus Caius was a pretty dope villain as he knew that in the end days anyway it'd just be him with his immortality, Noel, and a dying Yeul with literally no more humans to repopulate the planet. There are multiple side endings via fragments later and the paradox scope and once all fragments are collected there is trolldad ending with a twist but overall, as far as our current final fantasy's go I'd give it an 8/10 as for some reason trolldad ending felt like a nice touch. *sinister