At least FFVIII manages to make sense to people with its "fighting fate" ending stuff. I still feel like I'm the only person who thinks that the ending of FFXIII wasn't a total ass-pull (only partial, because it got revealed like ten minutes before it happened). Probably because it randomly switched from "repeat everything ten times over" writing to "one sentence in one long set of scenes is the entire explanation".
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Mistake you're making - overlooking the fact that we might not want to be saved.