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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future

hamchan

Member
I'm around 15 hours in and loving this game so far. Might be my console JRPG this gen, until Tales of Graces comes out next month.
 

xxczx

Member
Just did the
Proto fal'Cie Adam
boss. I'm disappointed, it took me 3 minutes for both battles, no healing required. :/

Edit: I shouldn't be too quick to judge,
if the original boss is much harder, I guess it's not too bad
<- Nope, that was wrong.

Give me some good boss battles Square Enix.
 

Synless

Member
All right children, I've finally done it. Casino coin trophy GET.

And all without doing the chocobo races. It's entirely possible to win it from the slots only. Basically what I did was got 8,000 coins, made sure the slot was in the best mood possible... played for a bit manually, then taped the L1 button down and took a nap.

When I woke up... I had won almost 60K casino coins! Exited the slots and it gave me the trophy :DD

And so... my first Platinum trophy ever belongs to FFXIII-2... more so for that fact that it was ridiculously easy to get:

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Wish I had your luck! I let it run for 5 hours and ended up with 0 coins.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Wish I had your luck! I let it run for 5 hours and ended up with 0 coins.

You could go for the Chocobo Races. It's slow but you're bound to get coins and not lose them.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Yeah, what's the deal to win in those?

Tame and level up a chocobo (level 45 gold chocobo is the most recommended), race them without betting and you get to advance to higher tier races if you win. If you get to the top, you can earn 60 coins, then 120, then 240, then so on per race.
 

ollin

Member
Finding Captain Cryptic in Academia 4XXAF is really pissing me off. I only found 1 out of 5 and looked at all the possible locations they are supposed to be in.
 

RS4-

Member
Finding Captain Cryptic in Academia 4XXAF is really pissing me off. I only found 1 out of 5 and looked at all the possible locations they are supposed to be in.

I got lucky when I found him 3 straight times for the last round of questions. Other times I had to exit to the Crux and come back again hoping he'd spawn.
 

RPGCrazied

Member
I'm 159/160 fragment at the moment and the last one I have to get is from the Bestiary sidequest...

I'm doing this next. How do you know what monsters you don't have and need? If its listed that means you have them? What about the ones with the check mark. I have some without check marks. Does that mean I really don't have it?
 

RS4-

Member
I'm doing this next. How do you know what monsters you don't have and need? If its listed that means you have them? What about the ones with the check mark. I have some without check marks. Does that mean I really don't have it?

Compare your bestiary to the one on gamefaqs or the guide is the only way really.

As for checkmarks, I don't know. Because I have them both on monsters I have and haven't tamed.
 

Robin64

Member
Checkmarks on a monster means you have learnt everything possible about them, but it's not needed to count as having the bestiary entry.
 

RPGCrazied

Member
Checkmarks on a monster means you have learnt everything possible about them, but it's not needed to count as having the bestiary entry.

I think I read, you only need to have fought them for them to get into your log. But if you want its stats and drops, you need to use a librascope? I have the hat with the kill:libra on it. Still can't get the fragment for having them all?

I didn't fight all
The Adam Fel'Ce or whatever, I have the guide, so I knew when to "shout at hope"
 

ponpo

( ≖‿≖)
Are any other enemies witholding good weapons? I just got both weapons from Ochu and the Immortal.

That ATB+50%.
 

Mognet

Member
I'm doing this next. How do you know what monsters you don't have and need? If its listed that means you have them? What about the ones with the check mark. I have some without check marks. Does that mean I really don't have it?

I think the check mark means that you've discovered all of its stats, resistances etc.

The monsters you already have listed in the Bestiary are the ones you've already beaten before.. so you'll have to hunt down the ones which are missing from your Bestiary (these are the monsters which you have not versed before).

I'm using a monster FAQ to find out which monsters I'm missing and where.
 

RPGCrazied

Member
I think the check mark means that you've discovered all of its stats, resistances etc.

The monsters you already have listed in the Bestiary are the ones you've already beaten before.. so you'll have to hunt down the ones which are missing from your Bestiary (these are the monsters which you have not versed before).

Yeah, thanks. I think I know what I'm missing. The one from the spoiler tag in my last post, and special monsters. I haven't fought and beat one of those yet. I'm going after Don Tonberry right now, he is even a trophy if you befriend him. I have the Monster Collector skill too.

I did manage to kill a proto behemoth, but I don't see it listed under behemoths. :(
 

Mognet

Member
Yeah, thanks. I think I know what I'm missing. The one from the spoiler tag in my last post, and special monsters. I haven't fought and beat one of those yet. I'm going after Don Tonberry right now, he is even a trophy if you befriend him. I have the Monster Collector skill too.

I did manage to kill a proto behemoth, but I don't see it listed under behemoths. :(

Yeah proto is listed under "Militarized Units".

I was lucky with
Adam since I had no idea which option to pick and ended up fighting them all.
lol
 

RPGCrazied

Member
Thank goodness! Those are a pain in the ass to fight, specially when they stand up, always murdered. I got lucky and got one down before he stood up.
 

Mognet

Member
I feel bad for having to change the difficulty to easy for that fight. d:

I think I'll have a crack at "The Don" since I didn't have all these nifty skill fragments before!
 
Is there any dlc coming that gives Noel non-stupid pants? I really hate his pants.

Also, gonna try asking one more time. Anyone got an extra PS3 DLC code from gamestop? I went with amazon but I would like to get the costume as well if someone doesn't want theirs.
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
Is there any dlc coming that gives Noel non-stupid pants? I really hate his pants.

Also, gonna try asking one more time. Anyone got an extra PS3 DLC code from gamestop? I went with amazon but I would like to get the costume as well if someone doesn't want theirs.

Aside from that red battle outfit there's an Assassin's Creed one coming... nothing else announced right now though.
 

Toki767

Member
Is there any dlc coming that gives Noel non-stupid pants? I really hate his pants.

Also, gonna try asking one more time. Anyone got an extra PS3 DLC code from gamestop? I went with amazon but I would like to get the costume as well if someone doesn't want theirs.

There is always that Ezio costume for Noel. Not sure if it'll be made available though.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
How I wish there would be a Cloud/Tifa and Tidus/Yuna costume alts for Noel/Serah. :p
 
Aside from that red battle outfit there's an Assassin's Creed one coming... nothing else announced right now though.

Do the red outfit pants have that whole retarded no leg separation thing doing on? It's like some nightmare cross between MC Hammer and Aladdin.
 

RPGCrazied

Member
Wow, got my chicu to level 70. His attack is 1220! More than Noel. :p

Do I infuse him with someone special? I went ahead and infused the yellow chocobo lvl 45 COM to him.
 

Perfo

Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I absolutely LOVED every minute of the ending. I thought it was fantastic. I'm so out of step with reviewers/gamers nowadays =/.

I'm with you here, I'm starting to realize this could be my favorite Final Fantasy ending in the series. It's just so original and well delivered. Loved every minute of it.
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
Wow, got my chicu to level 70. His attack is 1220! More than Noel. :p

Do I infuse him with someone special? I went ahead and infused the yellow chocobo lvl 45 COM to him.

Well... you want to get a mud frog and infuse a bunch into that including green chocobo, tonberry, mewmao, and some others... then infuse mud frog to chichu.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
It looks like something that came out from Dynasty Warriors.
 

Cheska

Member
I'm part of the problem, I had like $6 in my SEN wallet which was just enough to buy the DLC :p Doesn't Noel's outfit remind anyone else of Kingdom Hearts?
 

Perfo

Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I like Noel's standard design, except maybe for that t-shirt that is. I absotely dislike instead Serah's outfits (both of them) and Noel's second one. In games like this is when I miss Tetsuya Nomura's character design. His XIII's works were really great.
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
I like Noel's standard design, except maybe for that t-shirt that is. I absotely dislike instead Serah's outfits (both of them) and Noel's second one. In games like this is when I miss Tetsuya Nomura's character design. His XIII's works were really great.

Nomura only designed the characters faces in both XIII and XIII-2. He had nothing to do with costume design.
 

Lain

Member
Since Game.uk fucked up and canceled my pre-order I put in last October because they were out of stock of crystal edition, I need to order a copy again.
I have to decide between limited edition and normal edition+steelbook. I already have the Limited OST, so would the rest of the content of the Limited be worth it compared to getting the steelbook?
 

Mognet

Member
Anyone?

And I got a Yakishini for a SYN I'm working on.

I can't help ya there. I've only infused 2 or 3 monsters during the 60 hours I've played. I don't really find the need for it as my monsters are pretty boss, or it's just because I don't want to part with all my beautiful monsters (except I threw away Chichu because I thought Mog would be able to catch him again!).
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Nomura only designed the characters faces in both XIII and XIII-2. He had nothing to do with costume design.

Did he design Odin? I just noticed that Odin is composed of zippers. :p

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