blackpensnowbird
Member
would be cool if there was a list that detailed the best med/rav/com/sen/sab/syn monsters ;p
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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would be cool if there was a list that detailed the best med/rav/com/sen/sab/syn monsters ;p
badcrumble
Member
Cait Sith is, like, the very first Medic that you get. Almost any other Medic in the game is better. And yes, Green Chocobos blow Cait Sith out of the water.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Does anyone have any tips for the "ride your chocobo for 10000 steps" trophy other than my plan (put a rubber band on my controller and make the chocobo run around in circles while I'm at school/work/sleeping until the trophy pops when I dismount the chocobo when I come back)?
Unless its for moogle stuff I'm just going to constantly be on a chocobo
Yaschas Massif -100 AF- or -110 AF-.
The Praiseworthy
Member
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!
Augustia Tower
, first of all what an AWFUL random battle rate, so many of them.
And then in the end at the
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Augustia Tower
200 AF
And then in the end at the
Top of the tower with the 3 BOSS FIGHTS without any break and when you think it's over they give you this stupid answers to pick from and when you pick the wrong one the battle start all over again!!! WTF I'm soooo tired of fighting -.-"
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Did you get the fragment skill that lets you change the Chocobo theme?
I think I should just let the trophy come naturally. If it doesn't, then I'll resort to the rubber band method.
To be fair, I think if you die at the optional part where you give the wrong answer, it doesn't penalize you and make you start from the very start. I think you just end up at the multiple choice part again.
And you do get one of the better or best healing monsters in the tower with the Flanitor
I think most people will get it naturally because of how useful they are especially later on in some maps and if you're too bored to even fight monsters.
Zoe
Member
:lol :lol :lol
I really loved that area. I need to rewind the clock and play it again cause
I found Noel before I got a chance to "talk" to all the villagers
Don't worry, cuz the last boss will kick your ass once if you don't pay attention.
I didn't figure this out until I already got my RAV and COM roles to 20. Now I've been doing make up min/maxing.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
If I'm reading that right, and remembering the Crystarium from the demo, is the first bonus that pops fixed then and then it applies the role bonus?
Yes, that's what you normally get then the second one that pops up will be your bonus. There is a prompt letting you know you got the bonus too like "Ravager Bonus" or "Commando Bonus".
I'm not trying to max out their stats but I'm trying to build a somewhat balanced group but with their own quirks. Like, I've been trying to boost Serah's strength a bit right now, not by too much though. I've been dabbling a little bit in all of the bonuses for my characters.
I'm not sure about the fragments or achievements, but yes you lose your monster if you allow another monster to eat/fuse/absorb it. But if you always wanted that type of monster back you can get another. I ate my Silver Lobo and ended up getting another one a few hours later.
Letting your monster eat another one is cool. Allows for some odd combinations of abilities and bonuses.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Was it the Royal Ripeness boss that people were having issues with? It isn't hard. (Character Spoilers)
acted as the the third party member for me.
I ended up fighting it as if it were a Gui. Switching to Sen/Med whenever it was going to launch an attack, and then switching back to Rav/Rav (weak against wind, so use Galestrike with Noel and Aero with Serah) or Rav/Sab whenever it stopped attacking. When it's staggered, I used Com/Rav. Real easy to 5-star.
Edit: I was supposed to go to
next after Bresha Ruins? Whoops. lol.
Edit2: Bahahaha, this scene is better than the JP version's just because Noel's English VA does a great job of reading the lines with snark.
Snow
I ended up fighting it as if it were a Gui. Switching to Sen/Med whenever it was going to launch an attack, and then switching back to Rav/Rav (weak against wind, so use Galestrike with Noel and Aero with Serah) or Rav/Sab whenever it stopped attacking. When it's staggered, I used Com/Rav. Real easy to 5-star.
Edit: I was supposed to go to
Yaschas
Edit2: Bahahaha, this scene is better than the JP version's just because Noel's English VA does a great job of reading the lines with snark.
Did you activate the control device? It's in the tunnel near the boss.
CountBlack
Member
So Flanitor or Green Chocobo?
I don't want to waste all the materials leveling up the lesser one
Yeah just found it.
So Flanitor or Green Chocobo?
I don't want to waste all the materials leveling up the lesser one
Green Chocobo and infuse Flanitor into it to give it Esuna/Esunada.
Rahxephon91
Banned
I think this is one of the best soundtracks in the series.
Sure it lacks whatever deep crap I guess people want. But it sure is fun and something I can listen outside of the game.
The next FF ost probably won't have as much vocal or "technoish" music. Which is a shame.
Sure it lacks whatever deep crap I guess people want. But it sure is fun and something I can listen outside of the game.
The next FF ost probably won't have as much vocal or "technoish" music. Which is a shame.
The Xtortionist
Member
That scene in Episode 2 in the graveyard represents everything that's wrong with modern FF storytelling: corny, unearned, completely hamfisted melodrama with no payoff.
There are much better scenes, only to be ruined seconds later.
It's sort of bipolar. Some tracks are really really good. Others are straight out of the abyss.
StunandStab
Member
I keep collecting fragments and going back to Serendipity to see if I get any fragment skills from them, but that chocobo girl just keeps saying the same thing. Am I doing something wrong, or am I really just collecting all the wrong fragments? I have 44/160
Rahxephon91
Banned
Sure, but I rate soundtrack purly based on how many tracks I will listen to while not playing the game. Probably not the most critical way, but whatever.
Right now, most of the XIII-2 soundtrack is on my iPod with many multiple plays.
So Flanitor or Green Chocobo?
I don't want to waste all the materials leveling up the lesser one
White chocobo !
There are no Trophies/Achievements or fragments for getting all of the crystals.
distantmantra
Member
I just want a disc with the Origa songs.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
lol, I played that part late last night and had the TV muted. I have no idea how the English voicework was for that part.
The Xtortionist
Member
Voice acting is fine as it always was. But to say the dialogue is cringeworthy is quite an understatement.
Even ignoring the terrible writing, the scene has literally no purpose. We're supposed to care about this character we met 10 minutes earlier? Is a sudden overblown melodramatic monologue supposed to change anything? No, fuck you whoever came up with this scene.
In other news, I'm enjoying the gameplay.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I don't really give a shit about Alyssa either. I always made a point to get into a random encounter whenever she started yammering in my ear.The Xtortionist said:
Otherwise, if I were you, I wouldn't have high expectations for the narrative or dialogue.
Edit: My dad just came in and made fun of Noel's pants, lol. For reference, he expressed that he really really disliked Tidus's pants when he watched me play FFX.
The Xtortionist
Member
There's "bad" and then there's "intelligence-lowering"...13-2 is rapidly sprinting towards the latter.
13-2's story and dialogue is mindboggling. I play plenty of games with bad stories (I'm actually fine with Gears and Vanquish for instance) and generally don't expect much better, but it's rare that a game appears to consciously try to outdo itself again and again with such terrible dialogue and plot twists. Can't even really laugh at it like The Room. It's so far beyond that. My abstract analysis would be that the game actually thinks its brilliant and presents itself as being amazing, yet everyone is laughing at it, making the whole thing even more uncomfortable.
I hate to use the word pretentious but I think I have to. 13-2's story is pretentious and bad. That's what separates it from other stories that are simply bad.
I can't remember what the last Final Fantasy I would have recommended was, but XIII-2 twigs something deep inside...that monster hunting/gathering/improving is strangely compelling.
12 hours in, the story is weak and I'm not a huge fan of the characters (Noel is okay, a bit too much of the 'rah rah I'm a HERO and HEROES NEVER QUIT' formula for me. He's light years better than Serah though.) but I like the battle system and monster stuff enough to just keep playing anyway.
It's kind of sad how much grinding I've done already, looking to improve a monster or capture a particular one.
12 hours in, the story is weak and I'm not a huge fan of the characters (Noel is okay, a bit too much of the 'rah rah I'm a HERO and HEROES NEVER QUIT' formula for me. He's light years better than Serah though.) but I like the battle system and monster stuff enough to just keep playing anyway.
It's kind of sad how much grinding I've done already, looking to improve a monster or capture a particular one.
I'm totally going to try this method when I get home. I'm in
Oerba
Rahxephon91
Banned
That scene with Alyssa in the cemetery was pretty much the worst cutscene I've ever seen in a FF game.
I mean even her animation was funny. She was yelling at the sky saying the most over the top meladrama ever.
But then Noel saved the moment.
Alyssa should have been a party member though.
But other then that awful scene. The story has been alright and more fun then XIII-2. Though so far Im not sure what the point of it all is. What's it trying to achieve?
I mean even her animation was funny. She was yelling at the sky saying the most over the top meladrama ever.
But then Noel saved the moment.
Alyssa should have been a party member though.
But other then that awful scene. The story has been alright and more fun then XIII-2. Though so far Im not sure what the point of it all is. What's it trying to achieve?
can't believe she honestly believed her name was on the grave, shes crazy haha.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I've decided to just treat the narrative as if it were a bad comedy like duckroll suggested. Clearly we shouldn't try to take it seriously if it keeps feeding us scenes like that. The intro had some pretty cheesy dialogue, but that scene with Alyssa, at least the JP version of the cutscene, was pretty dumb.
Thanks! Let us know if it works.
For the method, let the animation play through for the first strike that the characters do to increase the Stagger gauge, and then hit Start then select retry. All you have to do is attack the creature again with a pre-emptive strike. Just rinse and repeat. It should take you about 20 minutes.
The Xtortionist
Member
The story would be redeemed if it had intentionally bad voice acting and lip syncing like Kung Pow.
.......that's alot of nuts!
Some monsters you can only get once, like kichu/chichu.