10 Video Game Sequels That Fixed Specific Fan Complaints

As any Final Fantasy afficionado will tell you, the thirteenth mainline instalment doesn’t tend to be considered a fan-favorite. For its time, it was quite a looker, with sky-high production values. Sadly, though, it lacked some of the fundamentals that make Final Fantasy games tick.

One of the biggest issues the game had was its linearity, with players spending most of their time in the mysterious realm of Cocoon following set paths to objectives. The franchise has long prided itself on offering vast, open worlds to explore, and this put a real downer on the game.

Nevertheless, Square-Enix tried to make amends. Sequel Final Fantasy XIII-2 arrived in the West in 2012, an adventure set three years after the events of the original. Its storyline is quite convoluted (there’s a lot of time travel going on here), but in delving deeper into its characters, building on the Paradigm Shift battle system and being much more open to exploration, it righted a lot of the wrongs of its predecessor.