Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo Out

[Typhoid]

(On the annoying character front).

Do you have to be Serah throughout the game (like you'd have to 'be' Cloud in 7) - or is it like 12, where there is no actual main character, and you can just control whomever you want.

But I kind of enjoyed the demo because I think the battle system in the game is interesting and different. You said its similar to XIII so that must be a good thing, but its kind of an interesting spin on the turn based battle.

I feel like I'm the only one - but I actually really enjoyed the battle system of 13. It was (in my mind) the perfect mesh of oldschool FF, and real-time.

Also, the story, albeit just a snippet, seems weird with multi-plane existence or something.

Play the first one. err...the 13th one. I found the story to actually be pretty enjoyable for a Final Fantasy game. Obviously you can't compare it to NA RPG's because it's got 0 grit in it. I found it to be like playing a movie. The path is pre-determined, but you're just along for the ride. I appreciated that, because it looked so good. Plus the boss battles were actually pretty tough - unless you googled how to speed through it rather than trial and error.