If I may be so bold as to intrude slightly on just one statement for the both of you (and please, forgive me if I am imposing):
Although I also didn't really have a firm grasp on the world of FFXIII, either.
It took me a long while to figure out that FFXIII didn't do something that most other Final Fantasy games have done since day one: it didn't spoon feed you the lore of the world. The focus of the game was on the character development, and the immediate plot at hand, but if you wanted to know anything extracurricular, so to speak, you had to go into the menu, open up that vast codec that was CONSTANTLY being filled with stuff as you played, and read. Read everything and anything that came your way.
I was incredibly lost all the same in XIII as I played. Fal'cie? L'cie? Pulse? Focus? Gran Pulse? What was all of this foreign terminology, and how did it all play in? That was my whole thought process until about Chapter 11. It seemed that when the game stopped being incredibly linear (which I don't mind, but just feels different), I then took the time to explore more of the game, which included that reference material. It was then I sat back, and truly appreciated all that XIII had to offer.
I hope this helps, should either of you choose to replay it again. :) It really is a glorious game in all of the best ways.
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Although I also didn't really have a firm grasp on the world of FFXIII, either.
It took me a long while to figure out that FFXIII didn't do something that most other Final Fantasy games have done since day one: it didn't spoon feed you the lore of the world. The focus of the game was on the character development, and the immediate plot at hand, but if you wanted to know anything extracurricular, so to speak, you had to go into the menu, open up that vast codec that was CONSTANTLY being filled with stuff as you played, and read. Read everything and anything that came your way.
I was incredibly lost all the same in XIII as I played. Fal'cie? L'cie? Pulse? Focus? Gran Pulse? What was all of this foreign terminology, and how did it all play in? That was my whole thought process until about Chapter 11. It seemed that when the game stopped being incredibly linear (which I don't mind, but just feels different), I then took the time to explore more of the game, which included that reference material. It was then I sat back, and truly appreciated all that XIII had to offer.
I hope this helps, should either of you choose to replay it again. :) It really is a glorious game in all of the best ways.