"The game is lighter than X by a long shot in terms of tone, but that seems only natural, and indeed appropriate, to me: FFX ended with you saving the world at enormous personal cost, and if, two years later, the world shows no sign of having been saved, then the original bittersweet ending looks a lot more bitter than sweet. The world has to be brighter, better, moving forward, because you have already sacrificed your main character to make it that way, and if it didn't work, why did the last game say you won? I like the tone, in that context."