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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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Nose Master
Member
159/160. Have about 28 or so monsters to fight. Bleh.
The Emperor
Member
PS3 fixed and back.
OMG Academy 4XXAF....no words...jaw dropping. One of the most mesmerizing moments this gen when I walked into it the first time
OMG Academy 4XXAF....no words...jaw dropping. One of the most mesmerizing moments this gen when I walked into it the first time
So I guess you need to do at least one clock puzzle if you are going for the main story right?...just got my first one,blocking a warp gate that I need to get to for a Graviton Core? and that Core in Bodhum needs a Mog Fragment skill?...where are those damn skills,I'm 40 hours in and only have 2 of them(improved Mog throw and some haggling skill).
The Emperor
Member
umm is it just me or does Hope look DOWN every time he talks..down as in his eyes never look up they always gaze down
It's just very annoying imo
Edit: How many of these graviton cores do I need to find????? I hope not all of them!
It's just very annoying imo
Edit: How many of these graviton cores do I need to find????? I hope not all of them!
R_thanatos
Member
i'm proud to say that i did all the bresha ruins clock levels ( 100 AF & 110 AF ) without a guide ... I love those kind of things ..
5 out of 7
firehawk12
Subete no aware
5.
You only get 4 skills from playing the game straight. The rest require exploration or post-game play.
What about the Tile Trials? Got a solution for the Bresha 300AF
Control Device Password 2 tile trial round 3
Is that the one with all of them in a line?
I have the site for the solutions but I was trying to figure them out by myself...what's the trick,what do you watch for a few turns ahead,if anything,or are some parts random...got the first 2 stages mostly through luck but gave up on the 3rd stage...
The Emperor
Member
How do you not have the mog fragment skill yet?
The one in Bodhum is the skill where you press R1 and mog finds treasure by searching for a paradox...you surely have that skill right?
It's just a logic puzzle. There are fixed rules and you just figure it out by look at the numbers and figuring it out in your head.
R_thanatos
Member
bresha 300 AF ? i don't think i've unlocked this area yet ( have 10,1X,100,110 ) ..
i'm missing the graviton core in oerba ( in fact in only have 1 oerba gate ) , where is the that gate ?
R_thanatos
Member
you don't get that skill unless you speak with the soldier noticing something wrong ... if you just passed by him, then it's possible to not have it ..
no trick , just quick thinking ..thinking several moves ahead helps..
if there are lot of big numbers (4 or 5 ) then take care of them first , otherwise start with a smaller number.. It's hard to give a good tip since it's really random
EDIT : sorry i meant to Edit my previous post ...i guess something weird happened on my side.
Yes,I said I have 2 fragment skills hehe...I was where the picture shows you and doing R1 but nothing popped up,i`ll go try again later.
No the Tile Trials are the ones with the tiles that disappear after you step on them, you have to collect all the crystals but in this particular puzzle some of the crystals move around. I posted a sort of crappy ASCII art map of the one I was stuck on a couple of pages back.
I believe he was asking about a specific puzzle (there is one where it's basically a straight line). Anyway, my tip for the tile puzzles is to just start running. If you can't figure it out at the start, running on a specific path will give you a general idea of how to solve it. It becomes very apparent which paths you can not take by simply running down one to see what crystals are left to grab.
Son of a bastard!
So my final fragment was the 100% bestiary, and I did everything. All the
Still no fragment from that arrogant Academy bastard.
Turns out I was missing a version of the
What a pain in the ass.
At any rate, I now have 160/160 and I just need the stupid Chocobo steps trophy to get the Platinum. 65 hours total, though I wasted hours of that getting that stupid 7,777 fragment.
So my final fragment was the 100% bestiary, and I did everything. All the
Caius Paradox fights, the Atlus Paradox fight, the Royal Ripeness Paradox fight and the Proto Fal'cie Paradox fight.
Turns out I was missing a version of the
Proto Fal'cie. The one you get from not answering the Trigger correctly and being forced to fight him again. So I had to go back to Augusta 200AF and fight that guy three more times.
At any rate, I now have 160/160 and I just need the stupid Chocobo steps trophy to get the Platinum. 65 hours total, though I wasted hours of that getting that stupid 7,777 fragment.
The Emperor
Member
Sooo in AF 400 Academia, I need to find the graviton core but is it possible to ride a chocobo there?? I don't wanna go into "dat encounter rate" ever again lol
Dat encounter rate is toned down when you revisit the area.
Supermanisdead
Member
make sure you know where to go first. i had to use a youtube video for that core because i couldnt deal with exploration.
I have to go back there myself for a few more fragments. Blech.
And Cie'th have to be the most boring, ugly random encounter enemies in FF history. They are terrible.
RedAssedApe
Banned
I wish there was some quick travel option on some of these maps. Namely 400-4xx AF. I want to do the quizzes but am too lazy to walk my way around. LOL
I'm working on polishing up the last of the fragments and this thought dawned on me...
Is this the best post-story content ever seen in a FF game? (outside of the MMORPG's)
I'm leaning towards yes. Consider these reasons:
Multiple endings.
Number of monsters to recruit.
The different ways you can adjust the settings of the game to make it easier to achieve your goals.
Closing gates to revisit areas with your current levels and equipment.
The number of rare spawning monsters to battle.
The items you can only obtain after the final battle.
DLC.
Even if some of these items aren't the greatest (DLC, some of the endings) the sheer amount and variety of content is nice.
I'm bouncing all over the historia crux doing fun things. I don't normally spend too much time with a game once I've gotten all of the achievements but with this one I see myself farming a few of the cool monster crystals and leveling them up to see how powerful they can become. If I was reviewing the game in chunks I'd rate the post-story content as the strongest point in the game.
Is this the best post-story content ever seen in a FF game? (outside of the MMORPG's)
I'm leaning towards yes. Consider these reasons:
Multiple endings.
Number of monsters to recruit.
The different ways you can adjust the settings of the game to make it easier to achieve your goals.
Closing gates to revisit areas with your current levels and equipment.
The number of rare spawning monsters to battle.
The items you can only obtain after the final battle.
DLC.
Even if some of these items aren't the greatest (DLC, some of the endings) the sheer amount and variety of content is nice.
I'm bouncing all over the historia crux doing fun things. I don't normally spend too much time with a game once I've gotten all of the achievements but with this one I see myself farming a few of the cool monster crystals and leveling them up to see how powerful they can become. If I was reviewing the game in chunks I'd rate the post-story content as the strongest point in the game.
Don't listen to his lies. If it was any lower, I sure as hell didn't notice it.
Well, you can use the fragment skill that reduces the encounter rate.
I don't actually think that helps in Academia 400 though. The way it is designed is different, and the game actually places enemies all over the map in advance, and once you go anywhere near them (even if you're ABOVE them or UNDER them) the Mog Clock triggers, and sometimes you can't even get to them from where you are, so you're just forced to watch it count to zero and force an encounter.
The design REALLY sucks.
The Emperor
Member
hmmm for the place where the graviton core was I didn't have to fight a single enemy while getting to it...maybe just luck or that certain area doesn't have encounters.
anyway just past the beginning bits of Chapter 5 and Oh my...some excellent cutscenes.
loved the whole Serah/yeul and Caius/Serah confrontations
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
StoppedInTracks
Member
Yeah, Academia 400AF is just bad design. You cannot escape the battles. But all is forgiven when you enter Academia 4XXAF!
Managed to do all the Oerba (all timelines) Clock Puzzles without a guide and without using pen & paper. Me boss!
Rasputin on the other hand annihilates me. Is there any way you can keep up when he summons those 5 bladed Cie'th?
Managed to do all the Oerba (all timelines) Clock Puzzles without a guide and without using pen & paper. Me boss!
Rasputin on the other hand annihilates me. Is there any way you can keep up when he summons those 5 bladed Cie'th?
The Emperor
Member
Woah just got my first paradox ending
Anyway so after I restarted at that point and made the right option...OMG I think I hear
Can't wait to carry on!!
in New bodhum when I said "yes" to Lightning
Anyway so after I restarted at that point and made the right option...OMG I think I hear
vanille calling me
Can't wait to carry on!!
Nose Master
Member
It's definitely not as low as other zones, but it does help. I had to run through there to get a graviton core I missed, and they were drastically lower.
It's definitely not as low as other zones, but it does help. I had to run through there to get a graviton core I missed, and they were drastically lower.
I hear using the auto-play feature lowers your chances by a third
I won 60K coins using the rubber band/tape method.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The guide says that playing manually on the summer day thing gets you a 130% win rate. Playing automatically gets you a 98% win rate.
Of course, you're still at the mercy of the RNG either way. It took me 4 hours to barely make enough to get the fragment, for example.
As you should!
Why did you buy it?
I was buying Chinatown Wars and the Lumines Xmas pack, and I was at like £8.20 or something, so I thought why not, get close to the £10.
It's really stupid actually, because if I do play it again, I'd actually want that one designed by the pop star or whatever, that's a cool outfit.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
If only Noel was wearing that swimsuit?
Meccanical
Member
I don't mean anything insult-like with this comment but, I feel like you sort of wasted your money. Once again, I don't mean anything bad, just a thought.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know, speaking of the costumes, what happens during the pre-rendered cutscenes? They go back to their default clothes, I presume?
It is wasteful, but I also saved like £6 on Chinatown Wars, so I'm still £4.50 in the black really.
Buying video games the week their out is like the definition of wasteful in the UK market. XIII-2 is £24 now. I could have saved £11 if I'd waited two weeks. I'm waiting for Catherine to tank for example.
You're right, I shouldn't have bought it, for better reasons than I care about £1.50 too.
Yeah, but there are only two of them I think.
Although I was bitching last week that the PS3 version's cutscenes run like shit because SE are too cheap to pay for multiple DVDs on 360, thinking about it, that's bollocks, it's because they have to be real-time to sell costumes.
There's no pre-rendered in-engine cutscenes outside of the "previously in ff13-2..." short intro.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Who in their right mind would play this thing manually for hours and hours and hours and hours hoping to luck out?
I won quite a sum of coins after trying this method... but it took a while and I didn't really care since I left the PS3 on while I did readings or graded.
That is probably my favourite part of the game. Not because it involves Noel or anything, but because the narrative, mood, emotion, and atmosphere was communicated quite well through retrospection.