I didn't really pick it up, so much as rented Final Fantasy XIII-2. I believe I'm at the end of the game, and it's been pretty fun so far.
My highlights would be catching monsters (Chocobos), racing (Chocobos), the Crazy Chocobo song, interactive battle cutscenes, and Serah's bowsword. Seriously, I think I'm going to make one of those IRL.
The not so fun parts of the game are hunting for all the fragments (I'm never going to get the Professor M one.), finding the ten Wild Artefacts (which I finally did.), and whenever Serah is forced to walk -really really slow-.
THE WORST PART OF THE GAME IS THE SLOT MACHINES. DO -NOT- PLAY THEM, THEY'RE ENTIRELY UNFAIR. SERIOUSLY, IT'S A GIGANTIC WASTE OF MONEY.
Other than that, for a game about time travel I feel they're good enough at avoiding continuity errors (even though time travel and it's consequences are really vague in this game.)
I am however disappointed at the lack of outfits currently in the game. The only outfit available right now is a red retexture of what he's already wearing, and on top of that it's a $2 DLC.
Also Chocolina is annoying.
AVOID THE SLOT MACHINE, FFS.
Sent from the Netherworld.