This is a fun little book for revisiting the characters from FF13-2 & filling in a few nuggets of extra backstory/lore. Kinda made me want to play the game again!

There's a problem running through a couple of the stories though, where they're trying to cover a lot in a very small number of pages, and they actually end up shrinking the world instead of expanding it. I found this most egregious in the latter half of the 2nd story, focusing on Snow.

In FF13-2 it's implied that he's on his own time-hopping adventure parallel to the main characters, showing up in unexpected places & leaving his footprints all over the timeline (the graviton cores). You can imagine he's been going through all sorts of things, seeing a whole other game's worth of new places & people.

So how does this book fill in that gap? Every location he visited off-screen in the game, he gets dropped into for about 5 seconds over the course of one whistle-stop tour to the end of the world. Then he lands in the first place the main characters would meet him. Then he goes directly to the 2nd place. Turns out he didn't have any off-screen adventures at all, you saw the whole thing in the game. I guess there's nothing else out there!