9. Final Fantasy XIII-2
It's not very good really when you reach the end of something and you just kinda hope everyone dies cause you just don't care anymore and don't really know what's going on. Unfortunately this happened in Final Fantasy XIII-2 after it got bogged down in confusing time travel, loads of nonsense that didn't really make sense, and was utterly and completely unsatisfying because it ended with basically the world being destroyed and one of the main characters officially kicking the bucket. Essential scenes which filled in the blanks a bit better were then released at later date via a dreaded DLC gate, but these really weren't worth the money and this kind of content should have been included as standard. In all fairness, Final Fantasy XIII-2 probably shouldn't have existed in the first place. It was kinda a way of Square Enix apologising for the poorly received Final Fantasy XIII (which also had a crap ending) and it was a marginally better game. The ending sequence really annoyed me though, particularly as it set up the XIII series for yet another game which - in my opinion - was simply not wanted or needed. That's time that could be spent on making a Final Fantasy VII remake wasted Squeenix. I'm not happy.
Original Ending Noel and Serah, time travellers united across time and space, face off against Caius Ballad and Bahamut in order to prevent Serah from dying and to stop Chaos, a mysterious substance of evilness, from being unleashed upon the world. Despite defeating Caius, Serah goes all mystical and sees the future, promptly dying as a result of it. Chaos is then unleashed upon the world, everything fades to black and you're left feeling incredibly unsatisfied. Lightning is then shown frozen in a big crystal thingy, because of reasons. No, I don't know what they are.
Alternate Ending In order for this alternate ending to even work, everything in Final Fantasy XIII-2 needs to be better explained as the storyline goes along. It rapidly descends into confusing territory because of all the time travelling stuff at many different junctures, and it all really doesn't tie together that well. Why is Lightning trapped in Valhalla for no apparent reason? Why did she vanish at the end of XIII? Was killing Caius really the right thing to do? You know what - this one's unsaveable. Chaos should have just eradicated everything and left us with nothing and definitely not given us a sequel to what is probably the least popular Final Fantasy series. But you know, cash cows and all that.
Alternate Alternate Ending Serah and Noel travel back to the time before Final Fantasy XIII was commissioned and tell Square Enix to 'Stop that, it's silly.'