FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 23: Lightning at Rest

Summary: Some brief final thoughts on Lightning Returns.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 22: Rebirth of Souls

Summary: Salvation for Hope. Lightning reunites with Lumina. The end of Bhunivelze. A whole new world. The end of Lightning Returns.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 21: Death Becomes Her

Summary: The four trials for Ultima. Lightning takes Etro’s mantle. The final fight against Bhunivelze for the soul of his new world.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 20: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Summary: Ereshkigal. Hope’s true colors. Busting into Luxerion’s cathedral on the final day to stop the Soulsong.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 19: The Ultimate Lair

Summary: Conspiring with Chaos to guillotine God. Reaching day 13, but not the end. Starting the Ultimate Lair.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 18: Aeronite

Summary: Hints of fake characters. Meeting a superboss. Someone spills FFXIV in my Lightning Returns. Through Day 9.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 17.5: A Warrior’s Wardrobe

Summary: A little interlude session. Trying to make sense of my vast array of garbs, weapons, shields, and accessories.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 17: It’s My Soul in a Box!

Summary: Completing the fifth main quest to save Sazh and son. The moogle village.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 16: I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Summary: Etro’s temple. Yeul and Caius. The origins of the Unseen Chaos. The feathered Angel’s true nature.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 15: What Angel Kwehs Me

Summary: Saving and healing the Angel of Valhalla, a fluffy white chocobo, as I quest through the Wildlands. The worst garb ever.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 14: Wildlands

Summary: A chocobo girl finds her family. Lightning saves the dead. Entering the Wildlands.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 13: The Holy Clavis

Summary: Finish my exploration of the Dead Dunes. Fang’s undying love for Vanille. Grendel. The Secutors snatch the Clavis.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 12: Bared Fang

Summary: Into the Dead Dunes. Meeting the bandit leader and heading down under the sands. The expansive ruins.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 11: Prison of Chaos

Summary: Confronting Snow in his Yusnaan palace to save his soul.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 10: Center Stage

Summary: Infiltrating the Augur’s Quarter. Lightning stars in the Slaughterhouse arena and the play about the Savior. I love this session.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 9: Cries of the Dead

Summary: Saint Vanille and the gathering Chaos. Starting in Yusnaan.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 8: Gem

Summary: Clearing the Chaos in Noel’s heart. And in a hilarious and legitimately moving side quest, a cat owner copes with grief.

TW: pet death.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 7: Running Numbers

Summary: Finding the code. Disrupting the Cult of Etro. Shadow Hunter.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 6: The World Tree

Summary: Exploring the Warrens. Feeding Eradia to Yggdrasil. Lumina inside Lightning’s mind.

FFXIII: Lightning Returns – Part 5: Chrysalia Noir

Summary: Savior/private investigator Lightning works the case of a murderer on the mean streets of Luxerion.