She's saving humanity and squaring up for a fight with God himself

Figuring out how to spend the time in LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII.

- Sam Greer

I’ve got eight days to save as many souls as I can before the world ends. ‘Saving’, here, means doing a quest to help a soul fulfil their purpose, letting them move on to the next world. Right now, one small soul is demanding the help of Lightning – the God of Light’s chosen saviour. A young boy is insisting that he can beat me in a foot race.

He’s challenged all the locals and he’s never been bested, but as a grown woman, literally called Lightning, I’m fairly confident beating him would be laughably easy. It’s a simple, unremarkable timewaster. Except time is the one thing I don’t have.