Square Enix will release its promised Lightning-focused DLC for Final Fantasy 13-2 at some point in May 2012, according to a report from Dengeki PlayStation (via Andriasang). The assumption is that the new content will come sometime after the planned May 15 release of the Snow-focused DLC pack.
The Lightning DLC, called Requiem of the Goddess, involves a battle between Serah's older sister and Caius, the FF13-2 antagonist. Finish the DLC and you'll unlock Armored Lightning for use as a party member, complete with her own set of abilities. Also coming in May is another content pack that will add White Mage Serah and Black Mage Noel costumes, along with 16 Moogle costumes, to the game.

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Yes! Finally the DLC I've been waiting for. I really want to see more Caius vs Lightning. Also wouldn't mind a reason to finally return to this game. This is still by far my favorite release of the year. So much fun and Caius is the best FF antagonist of all time. Might pick up the Sazh and Snow DLC while I'm at it.

Cool beans. Count me in.

I keep hearing that the game is bare bones and the all the things that would of made this a complete package are being sold as DLC.  EA could learn from SquareEnix.

@bartok: Thats not true AT ALL. There are over 70 hours worth of gameplay if you want to really dive in. Its vastly improved from the previous game. And the time travel mechanic lets them do some fun things with the story. The game is hardly bare bones unless you count 70+ hours as bare bones.

Cool looking forward to it.

I skepped the Sazh DLC after hearing it was fairly lackluster, but i'll definitely get the Lightning story and maybe the Snow one.
The DLC for this game has actually been pretty good, got the Ultros fight as soon as it came out. Has anyone tried the Gilgamesh fight?

@bartok: Thats not true AT ALL. There are over 70 hours worth of gameplay if you want to really dive in. Its vastly improved from the previous game. And the time travel mechanic lets them do some fun things with the story. The game is hardly bare bones unless you count 70+ hours as bare bones.

@vidiot: Well I got nearly 80hours out of it and honestly if you really wanted to go nuts and capture and raise every monster in the game to its maximum potential that is easily over 100 hours. So like i said the potential is there if you want to dive in. Most people are going to be tourists and run through the story once and be done. I think the DLC slots in nicely as the time travel angle allows them to play around with the story in ways a lot of other games can't.

I think the DLC slots in nicely as the time travel angle allows them to play around with the story in ways a lot of other games can't.

@vidiot: SE registered a site for FF13-3 a long time ago, I'd say a sequel is more in the realm of possibility than the ending being sold as dlc (but no body knows until its release obviously).

As for the game's length that isn't really true if we're comparing the series as a whole. Most of the earlier titles were extremely short games. I am sitting here right now looking at my FF4 save file at the final dungeon of the game and it's only 23 hours. My first play through of FF5 was only 20 hours or so. Yes compared to recent main line games FF13-2's main story is fairly short but not as the series as a whole.

On topic though, they released a screen shot on the Lightning DLC stuff and it looks like Lightning has different paradigms than the main game and is fighting solo (at least in that one screen) I am curious to see how it all plays out. Without heavy modifications of some sort solo combat in the 13 and 13-2 combat system would be very damn boring.

I like to take every chance I get to praise this game. So I am going to take advantage of this thread to say that this is the best Final Fantasy in years.

I started playing it just now. I hated the characters in 13 and I didn't really enjoy the game. I've decided to give this one a chance. I still don't like the characters in these latest FF's.

I am all for more "episodes" in FF13-2. I just hope they are a little more reasonable on the price.