Lightning Returns to put the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy out of its misery (interview)

The oft-maligned Final Fantasy XIII (alongside with the Final Fantasy XIV debacle) drastically reduced my appreciation for the series. It should have helped me forget about all the half-assed Final Fantasy VII spin-offs, but instead it ended up being easily the worst numerical entry to date, a rare miss after nearly 25 years of industry-changing role-playing games. So my expectations of Final Fantasy XIII-2, which dumped the original cast and replaced them with a Kingdom Hearts reject and main protagonist Lightning’s little sister running around in a battle bikini, weren’t exactly high.