Yup, and outside sources as well. Manga, Guides, Interviews, Ultimania, etc...Isn't a majority of the lore in FFXIII stuff written in text logs and stuff like that?
But this isn't any different from say NieR, or even FF7 itself these days what with all the alt materials which have come forth over the years.
This isn't considered a negative when other games do it, and it doesn't make the lore any less interesting just because you have to do some extra digging.
I found it perfectly coherent myself.what
XIII doesn't even have a properly coherent storyline spanning the three games.
And half the cast is annoying as shit.
And I don't disagree about the some of the cast being annoying, but the difference between 13 to LR, and 7 is that at least 13's characters grow and develop lol.
7's characters exist, but they don't grow, and they're hardly developed. Except maybe Cloud, though it's kinda just a flip-flop style arc complete with PTSD Soldier tropes.
I don't have anything against 7 mind you, but i also don't seem to have the same rose glasses as everyone else among us 90's kids.