The Forgotten Worlds of the Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy

the original trilogy of videos, reuploaded with fixed audio and combined into one video. a deep dive analysis into the worldbuilding of the ff xiii trilogy and how it's a lot more clever than it looks, despite your grandma hating it because it's very linear. 00:00 - FF XIII INTRO 04:53 - hanging edge: upside-down midgar 08:00 - pulse vestige: echoes 09:43 - bodhum: sand & sea 10:36 - lake bresha: juxtaposition & convergence 12:34 - vile peaks: artistic espionage 14:44 - gapra whitewood: cold & calculated 17:53 - sunleth waterscape: warm & empathetic 23:29 - nautilus: the silver saucer 25:49 - palamecia: radical contingencies 27:10 - the fifth ark & l'cie brand tattoos 28:55 - gran pulse: bipolar commonalities 32:48 - sulyya springs: crystal pepsi 35:33 - oerba: dust to dust 38:18 - orphan's cradle: crimson chaos 40:10 - ff xiii outro 41:19 - FF XIII-2 INTRO 44:44 - vallhalla: dlc land 46:28 - neobodamu: a perfect start 50:18 - temporal rift: the light in darkness 51:14 - bresha ruins: atmospheric anomaly 52:52 - sunleth 2: electric waterloo 54:46 - vile peaks 2: electric poo-in-the-loo 56:10 - yaschas: eclipse 57:55 - oerba 2: village & void 59:54: archylte 2: plains of eternity 1:01:58 - dying world: the threat of colour 1:03:14 - augusta: wednesdays suck 1:05:51 - the void beyond: nebulous abstraction 1:07:07 - academia & xiii-2 outro 1:13:22 - LIGHT RETURNS INTRO 1:18:17 - nova crysalia: novus partus 1:22:14 - luxerion: a chessboard of souls 1:29:29 - the arc: eyes on the sky 1:33:08 - yusnaan: epicurean sleepwalking 1:36:31 - wildlands: remnants of pulse 1:41:27 - dead dunes: the everything in nothingness 1:45:45 - outro: from the hanging edge to a new world