I finished FF13-2. If I'd just not done Oerba 300 and 400 AF I'd probably give the game an entire additional point-of-ten. Ah well.
The pacing is really weird. Because of the open non-linear nature, you're basically left in the dark plot-wise until the very, very end. It's like FF4:TAY except the big reveal at the end of the long string of non-reveals isn't literally the worst thing in any RPG ever.
Actually the final 2 hours is pretty intense, including the post-game bridge to LR:FFXIII they released as DLC.