EternalAmbiguity wrote...
FF XIII-2 didn't have a "horrid" ending.
It had an extremely extremely depressing ending, but it was well done.
You fight for 40-50 hours to prevent a timeline from being destabilized and destroyed, you both get "killed" at one point, and in the end, none of the things you did throughout the game mattered in any way, because the moment it looked like you won, fate decided to kick the characters in the balls.
What's worse is that if you complete all the optional content (collecting the fragments and completing the extra missions), the only thing that changes is the villain rubbing his nose in the player's face for wasting their time.
It's the very definition of a "Shoot The Shaggy Dog" ending. That's beside the point, though. No matter what I think of ME as a whole, I'm fairly confident that more effort and thought will be put into 3's ending that SquareEnix did with XIII-2.