Final Fantasy XIII-2 Walkthrough
By
Peter Brown, Editor
Cocoon has fallen! Kweh! Our game guide for Final Fantasy XIII-2 features an in-depth walkthrough covering equipment, monsters, abilities, and more!
Main Story Walkthrough: New Bodhum, 003 AF
New Bodhum 003 AF, Enemies: Pulsework Soldier, Nektons, Meonektons, Gorgonopsid, Sarracenia
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Now that you are in control of Serah, exit her home following the simple movement tutorials. Once you're outside, you'll have to wade through a disorienting world.
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Walk forward, and eventually Serah will come to. New Bodhum is under attack by a swarm of Nektons and Meonektons.
At this point, Noel shows up. He hands off the mogsword to Serah and your part in this battle begins. Move around the beach and take on the various swarms of enemies.
When the beach is clear, follow Noel over the barricade and continue heading north. The toughest enemies you'll encounter at the moment are Pulsework Soldiers. You'll have to stagger them before you can inflict any real damage. Once you have the ability to capture monsters, however, Pulsework Soldiers should be at the top of your hit list. The soldiers, and their variants (knights), make excellent sentinels.
Before the fighting continues, you'll be introduced to the Mog Clock, a mechanic used for initiating random encounters in FFXIII-2.
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| When the Mog Clock activates, that indicates an enemy is within range, represented as a ring around your character. You have the ability to run away or to attack the enemy to initiate battle (with the X or A button) and earn preemptive strike bonuses. If you choose to run, you must get far enough away before the Mog Clock runs out, or you will be forced into battle. The bonus for striking first is a free attack from each character and 2,000 points toward your battle rating. The higher the battle rating, the better chance you stand to get rare items from common enemies. |
Continue heading north. Look for the Treasure Sphere on your right after the ramp. Open it to claim three potions. There are a few citizens of Bodhum fighting enemies and another treasure sphere on your right that is just out of reach. Ignore it for now, continue north, and open the Treasure Sphere in the middle of your path to acquire the Map of New Bodhum.
Follow Noel northwest to initiate a cutscene. Double back southwest, grabbing the treasure sphere along the way for a Librascope. It's an item you use during battle to analyze enemies, revealing their strengths, weaknesses, and a plethora of other info.
Take the left-most path north. Follow Noel over the fallen logs. You'll enter a temporary state of confusion, but no matter, keep following Noel. Open the treasure sphere to score a phoenix down. Continue following Noel. There will be a quick cutscene, and then a relatively easy boss.
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The game will inform you that the Twin Shields paradigm is the key to winning this battle. As sentinels, you'll incur less damage, but as a strictly defensive paradigm, you'll also be unable to attack your enemy. When you see Gogmagog ready his swipe ability, quickly switch paradigms to Twin Shields to protect Serah and Noel. Switch back to Slash & burn paradigm to continue chaining Gogmagog. Once you get a hang of switching back and forth, this fight will be a breeze. Stagger him with physical and magic attacks and then finish the job. |
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| Fragments play a special role in FFXIII-2. They are solidified memories, containing valuable knowledge of the history behind characters and locales in the game. |
Keep up with Noel and grab the treasure sphere containing 300 gil. When you hop down into the crater, grab one more treasure sphere for 2 Gysahl Greens. It's slightly hard to see, located just over the edge of the cliff near the crater. You'll use these to ride chocobos found throughout the game.
Examine the crystal structure in the middle of the crater. Noel uncovers a time gate within the crystal and reveals that this is the way back to Lightning in Valhalla.
In the cutscene that follows, he mentions that artefacts are needed to travel through gates. Artefacts are objects stuck between two points in time, creating an informal link between the two eras. They act as keys to gates. You'll have to find an artefact to continue your search for Lightning. But first, let's get some rest!
When you awake, the game informs you that you now have access to the crystarium and paradigms section in the menu. The crystarium is how you upgrade your character. You spend CP toward a series of nodes. You can focus your CP toward a primary role or mix and match between multiple.
Open up the crystarium into the crystarium. Upgrade Serah and Noel's primary roles, ravager and commando respectively. I took each of them to LV. 10.
Your current goal is the artefact needed to open the gate within the crater. First, examine the tree on the beach near NORA's headquarters. You'll find Lightning's knife, and engage a new live trigger event.
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As Noel suggests, head to NORA headquarters to see if there are any more mysterious objects. If you look at the map, you can see an orange exclamation mark, indicating a point of interest. In this case, it's a mysterious mirror in one of the bedrooms. Examine it, and Serah will pull the artefact from the mirror.
With the artefact in hand, you can now head to the gate. First, though, open the treasure cube for a reward. If you chose A like me, you'll get a potion.
Start exploring the rest of the map; there are new sections to explore in the east along the water. There is a treasure sphere there containing a Phoenix Down and another with an Iron Bangle accessory
Occasionally you'll find non-player characters (NPCs) that offer side quests. They are entirely optional, and the rewards vary from fragments, artefacts, and common items. They often take the form of fetch quests and are never too challenging.
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Look for the girl reclining on the beach. She'll offer your first side quest. Help her find a missing medical kit located somewhere in New Bodhum. West from the treasure sphere containing the Phoenix Down lies the medical kit that the girl on the beach is looking for. It's within a treasure cube, rather than a treasure sphere. Head back to the beach and hand off the med. kit to receive the Heart Piece Fragment and 50 CP. |
With that taken care of, head for the gate. When you get close, Gogmagog makes another appearance.
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| Stagger him with a barrage of magic and physical attacks. This is a relatively easy fight. Just don't forget to switch to Twin Shields when he prepares his swipe attack. With a five-star rating, I received an Iron Bangle and a Phoenix Down. |
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Post battle, you'll get your first taste of chocobos in FFXIII-2.
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| You'll collect Gyshal Greens throughout the game, and they are strictly used to mount chocobos. A standard yellow chocobo will consume 1 gyshal green and allow you to ride it for as long as you wish. Sadly, each time you dismount, say, to grab a treasure sphere, you will have to sacrifice another gyshal green to remount the chocobo. |
At the gate, you'll be presented with another Live Trigger event.
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| "If you go through the gate with Noel, you might not be able to ever return. Are you ready to begin your journey?" |
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If you're ready to go, chose Y.
After Serah says her good-byes, you'll enter the gate. You'll end up in the game's overworld, the Historia Crux.
By
Peter Brown, Editor
Peter Brown has been writing about video games and hardware since 1999. He grew up with the NES and has an unwavering love for retro and arcade games. Though he's a New England native, he's called the Bay Area home since 2004.
53 comments
Hi... Im stuck at Lvl 15 Augusta Towers AF300. Done everything there, But terminal in middle room says ''Need lvl 13 key, in other time period'' or similar. Also I have no A- Towers AF200, in the Historia Crux. Arrrrgh? Help.Also I cant throw Moogle.Cheers.
regarding the tomato thing, do I have to start over if after getting the black hole gem and the tomato is not mutant?
@shademalkovich There is more than 1 Oerba. there is 200AF, 300AF & 400AF. Not unlocked them all yet but you must be able to reach the water in 300 or 400AF
Also how to you get to the other side? there is usually a Chocobo to help but i can't find one you can ride. where treasures 14,15,16 and 21 are.
you have to use the way stones in the shape of cactaurs.the weather has to be the way it was when you first got there to find the way stone to the other side, n Mog has to find it.
I killed the faeryl in archylte, n I have the black hole gem, but when I went back to sunleth, the frigging tomato was still royal, not mutant! what do i do?
@calacake not sure about that it worked fine with me the other day. did you fight it when the weather was changed to Lightning?
how do i get back to augusta in the year 200af im stuck in 300 af and completed everthing im stuck
@smurf6 if you have already been to 200AF it will be unlocked in the Historia Crux.. press the start button and click the top one "return to Historia Crux' and look around and you will find it.
Cant get to academia? Beat the giant tomato thingy and have all the fragments. Still it hasn't been unlocked. What do I do?
@LiFERACE Go to The Void Beyond and travel through the space distortion. it's orange i thing on the top of the stairs ti the East.
The weapon Sacred Cross is not "just north of the gate" its miles north of the gate, its at the opposite end of the western section of the map (where as the gate is in the furthest south-westerly position on the map).Make sure you realise this before proceeding. If you assume like i did it will be near the gate its not. youll have to go to the north of the western section first by the 3 toppled pillars marked on the map and then to the very south west to the gate.
You already have Beta and Gamma NOT Alpha and Gamma as stated at the top of the page. So you need alpha, delta and epsilon if you are using this guide ;)
tell me how can you have 4 paradigms for monsters when you only get a paradigm pack of 3? You have Ravager, Commando, Sentinel and Medic roles for the monsters in the table above but this is surely not possible.
1 Like @Bulletrush12 Some monsters, much like Noel and Serah, they can have more than one paradigm. Behemoths can be Commandos or Ravagers. Cait Siths can be medics or commandos. Sometimes three. It depends on if they are late bloomers, well grown, or early bloomers.
first id like to say thanks for making this guide its helped me a lot. however im now a bit confused. When I went through the gate after collecting the artefact in waterscape I was given the options:
This guide helped a lot for myself and my husband. We enjoy the FF series, and he had gotten stuck in XIII-2 at Augusta 200AF the first time through, not sure where to go to use the Wild Artifact. ^^ This is a great guide.
This is turning out to be a game of little content, certainly not up to the level of FF#13. I can't recall another FF this shallow. On the positive side - IT'S FINAl FANTASY - STILL THE BEST RPG SERIES EVER.
Thanks Doc Brown...I apologize and to tell you the truth i followed your stradegy with maxing out Noel as a commando and serah as Ravager and been breezing threw the bosess like nothing. Great walkthrough
Interesting opinions Fuego...Anyway, since you asked, you get it from the Mystic in Serendipity. You can acquire it after the conclusion of Episode 5. Our fragment skills page listed under primers has the requirements for each skill.
I should have not been cheap this time around and bought the strategy guide...by the time they finish this walkthrough ill already have beaten Final Fantasy XIII-3, and be playing Final Fantasy XIII Verses
You think you can silence me Gamespot! this walkthrough is amateur at best. IGNs is much better! and no i do not work for IGN....TIME AND SPACE!!!!!
if you have troubles with the clock puzzles check out the on-line solver that I've made for them: http://clockpuzzle.pl/
@mkrool Check back this evening (Pacific time) for the completion of Episode 4. Episode 5 will wrap up tomorrow, with the final Episode going up on Friday.
this guide stops exactly where i have lol would love if u could put guide up bout where to go after u see caius in augusta tower and u need key 50
Hey could you add what you are putting your points into in the crystarium, You stoped letting us know what are you leveling into and what you take when the crystarium levels up for your characters after Oerba. Thanks, Otherwise great job on the guide so far, I hope you finish it soon. :)
damn gamespot you bozos are slow as sh*t..only up to episode 3 part one. Like an idiot i followed your walkthrough not knowing it was complete till i got to the end of yaschas massif. but then i finally came to my senses and went to IGN where they not only had a complete walkthrough, but a complete wiki on everything ffxiii-2. Step your sh*t up gameFLOP
OH GOD, NOT ANOTHER WALKTHROUGH!!! Gamespot diddnt even finish the skyrim walkthough, and all they have to do its stupid stuff like achievements, and the parts that are done, are really awfully written. Its very disappointing.
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Table of Contents
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- Prologue: Valhalla
- Episode 1: New Bodhum, 003 AF
- Episode 2: Bresha Ruins, 005 AF
- Episode 3: Yaschas Massif, 010 AF
- Episode 3: Oerba, 200 AF
- Episode 3: Yaschas Massif, 01X AF
- Episode 3: Locked Location/The Void Beyond
- Episode 3: Sunleth Waterscape, 300 AF
- Episode 3: Archylte Steppe, Unknown AF
- Episode 4: Academia, 400 AF
- Episode 4: Augusta Tower 200 AF
- Episode 4: Augusta Tower 300 AF
- Episode 4: Augusta Tower 200 AF
- Episode 4: Academia 4XX AF
- Episode 4: Graviton Core Hunt
- Episode 5: The Void Beyond ??? AF
- Episode 5: New Bodhum 00X AF
- Episode 5: A Dying World 700 AF
- New!Episode 5: New Bodhum 700 AF
- New!Episode 6: Academia 500 AF
- New!Episode 6: Final Bosses
Final Fantasy XIII-2
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X360, PS3
- Publisher:
- Square Enix
- Category:
- Role-Playing
- Release:
- Jan 31, 2012
- ESRB:
- T
