It would be great if any of that is canon. I mean, Fang is, but I wasn't confused about that part; I understood why she turned on the party, and it was clearly foreshadowed with her disinterest in saving Cocoon. It was pretty much the only part of the entire final battle/ending that I felt was solid. But the business with Orphan was never explained or even really discussed, and a lot of even what you were saying was conjecture.
I might take a look at that link when/if I finish FFXIII-2, since I'd rather have the presentation from the games before I read side materials. I'm sure a lot of what happened would have been clearer if I read the side materials, or more of the eight billion pages of encyclopedia in-game before I realized I was spending more time reading after every cutscene than actually watching the cutscenes themselves. But in a better game, I would have had everything I really needed to know from the narrative, and the side materials and encyclopedia entries would be just that: bonus for me to read when I was really invested in the world or the story.
I'm sure it has an awesome mythology. I hear lots of good things about it! But I don't want to have to read it all to understand what's going on. I don't even know who or what "Etro" is. That's why I hope FFXII-2's storytelling is a little better, lalala.
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I might take a look at that link when/if I finish FFXIII-2, since I'd rather have the presentation from the games before I read side materials. I'm sure a lot of what happened would have been clearer if I read the side materials, or more of the eight billion pages of encyclopedia in-game before I realized I was spending more time reading after every cutscene than actually watching the cutscenes themselves. But in a better game, I would have had everything I really needed to know from the narrative, and the side materials and encyclopedia entries would be just that: bonus for me to read when I was really invested in the world or the story.
I'm sure it has an awesome mythology. I hear lots of good things about it! But I don't want to have to read it all to understand what's going on. I don't even know who or what "Etro" is. That's why I hope FFXII-2's storytelling is a little better, lalala.