FFXIII wasn't exactly a kiddie game, It was semi politics i guess but this time politics weren't the center of attention unlike XII
I told you that when i said graphics i meant the open world environment and as you said open world games usually have bland environment. I was not comparing it's graphics with XIII(geez -_-)
Lighting may not have much character wise but her character design was great, the one who had the deepest character development would have got to be Szach(He and his kid always reminded me of Will Smith and Jaden Smith from Pursuit of Happyness (lmao)). The characters were way much better then XII where we got transexuals like Vaan, and a princess with a strippers dress who always missed her husband a.k.a Ashe. Not much decent characters made XII a dull experience for me(Balthier was decent and i was not particularly a fan of Basch or Fran).