It's not easy to talk about this game because what is good is VERY GOOD and what is bad is VERY BAD.

First let me talk about the good mechanics. You control Lightning in her last adventure after ff xiii-2. Universe is ending and you have 7 days to save the maximum number of souls. For that you have clothes that works as diferent classes. You can equip a cloth, a weapon, acesorries and abilities/magic to that class. In fight are you alone and you can equip 3 clothes simultaneously and change between then in fight. It's a dynamic fight the use energy of the classes to make combos. To expand your wardrobe you can make secondary quests and buy some.

To evolve yous status every quest you finish give a little making accumulative and that's genius thing. If you make a NG+ and make the same quest you receive half status. That give a felling of progression and evolution tha makes you want to became very strong and do a lot of quests.

BUT... the game works in a limited time. And everything it attached to that. There is moments of the day that are specifics for quests and events and everything is short time. You have a skill that pauses time for a moment and you use it A LOT. This mechanic is very bad for the complexity and fun of the game, it's not compatible with the good mechanics. You have to know exactly what you are doing to have time to do everything right making everything very confused.

I do not recomend this game because the mechanic of time take almost every fun part of the good combat mechanic and evolution. The story it's nothing special. We find old ffxiii characters and help then with something.

Cenarios are fun and open. But you can't explore then properly due to time limit.

Square Enix could make a very good improvement in some future games with good parts of this title. But it was forgotten. A wasted game with wasted ideas.

insanely fun nice spin on the combat too

grew up playing this game on the xbox 360 <3

I really enjoyed the battle system of this one. The action combat is real time mixed with ATB bar that depletes whenever you strike or block. You get the freedom of customizing skills to fit your play style. Each garb may also come with a unique passive or locked skill. But I have to complain some garbs seems totally useless or quite ugly though. The instant stagger when you successfully blocks for some enemies feels rewarding, making incentive to master enemies moves.

Many ppl are stressed out about the time mechanic but I find it ok. I'll suggest using a guide when lost. Just keep using EP for Chronostasis when you want to save time, and kill monsters to gain EP back and repeat. With that, I was left with 3 days finishing all main quest and most side quests.

Since you only play as Lightning, it may get a bit lonely but you also learn more about her inner voice and emotions as she questions her state of mind. People that does not understand her character may find it harder to understand how the plot unfolds.

The PC port for this one has no problems on running game smoothly. Only issue is that the keyboard mapping is really bad, I suggest using a controller.