I Beat Final Fantasy XIII Tonight

Don’t worry – I’m not going to give away any spoilers (or the images of the final bosses other than the one everyone has already seen), but suffice it to say, I owned Final Fantasy XIII tonight. 

The cool thing is, as with Fable 2, the end of the plot is not the end of the game.  Final Fantasy XIII goes on long after you beat the final antagonist. In fact, the final level of the crystarium doesn’t even become available until after you’ve successfully completed the final boss.  There is an entire world left to explore, including far tougher enemies.  I will get to that but for now, I’ve gotten Final Fantasy XIII out of my system and can return to getting everything prepared before Jocelyn’s visit next week.  (She has informed Aaron and me that we cannot work very much at all, meaning we have to do everything in advance.)

Barthandelus, Lord Sovereign of the Cacoon fal'Sie bears an interesting resemblance to some of the imagery used in the book of Revelation. There is also another fal'Sie that is taken from a Persian myth involving a tyrannical god that tortured his servants and was destroyed by a group of saviors. I think the Japanese video game makers were well steeped in the literary tradition of apocalypse. (I hate to use the word in that context since it literally means "an unveiling" or "to reveal" and NOT "the end of the world" but most people don't know that so Webster finally bowed to it and now uses it in that context, so whatever ...)

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