I enjoyed the four clock puzzles that you have to do in the maingame, and thought they were the best of the pocket dimension puzzles. Dunno about aftergame, didn't bother.
FF13-2's pretty cool. Plot picks up a bit at the end though isn't the reason to play the game.
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