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'''This article assumes you have played ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' and will have unmarked spoilers from that game.'''
The next game<ref>we completely avoided what happened [[Final Fantasy X-2|last time]]</ref> in the [[Running Gag|baby-blendingly popular]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, and the fifth title in the series to be a direct sequel to a main series title. The game was teased on January 27, 2011 at the Square Enix 1st Production Department Premier Conference, and was subsequently released on December 15, 2011 in Japan, January 31st, 2012 in North America, and February 3, 2012 in Europe. Like its predecessor, it is for both the [[
Three years after the end of ''Final Fantasy XIII'', the residents of Cocoon are attempting to rebuild their lives following the loss of the Cocoon fal'Cie. Lightning is missing, assumed to have [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificed herself]] in order to stop Cocoon from falling and killing everyone inside. Only one person believes otherwise: Serah Farron, who swears that her sister emerged alive but disappeared into thin air a moment later.
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* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: The same roles make a return from the original game; [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|Commando]], [[Elemental Powers|Ravager]], [[Stone Wall|Sentinel]], [[Status Buff|Synergist]], [[Standard Status Effects|Saboteur]] & [[White Mage|Medic]].
* [[After Combat Recovery]]: Your characters are healed after every battle, which is carried over from the first game.
* [[
* [[All There in the Manual]]:
** The Datacore system returns, although the main storyline is easier to grasp than 13. Every ending (except the secret ending scene) also grants a fragment that acts as a datacore, expanding on the information granted therein, as well as many fragments dropped from bosses and certain story events, including some surprising ones. For example, the Graviton cores {{spoiler|are actually a temporal [[Message in a Bottle]] from Snow to Serah.}}
** In a more meta sense, the final datacore granted from the final bonus fight of Final Fantasy 13, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150115083834/http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Datalog/Analects#XIII._Fabula_Nova_Crystallis "Fabula Nova Crystallis"], can be interpreted as spelling out 13-2's plot in a very general sense.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Yaschas Massif and Academia have alternate dimensions that appear as a result of solving paradoxes in other locations, and they are marked with an X in the year name. (Ex. 01X AF) You can still go back to the original version of the area, though.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]:
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* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Well, you aren't rewarded with clothes, but you can get them as downloadable content. The various monster adornments could also count as this in some cases. Most of these are earned by things such as Live Trigger Rewards, Cinematic Action Bonuses, or throwing Mog in obscure areas.
* [[Animal-Eared Headband]]: Half the attendants of Serendipity wear [[Catgirl|cat ear bands, tails, and cat paw gloves]]. The other half are [[Palette Swap]]s of Chocolina and dressed up like blue chocobos.
* [[Another Side, Another Story]]: There are [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] packs where you can play a story segment as Sazh, Lightning, or Snow, and then obtain them as a party member "monster" when you complete it.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: [[Up to Eleven|To where it becomes]] extremely dark.
** Noel's backstory is that absolutely everyone can, ''and has'', died. He was the last human ever to be born, and so he's jumping around the timeline trying to prevent his backstory from happening.
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** When you buy the Arcus Chronica for Serah and the In Paradisum for Noel from Chocolina, white and black feathers appear respectively every time they attack an enemy.
* [[Fetch Quest]]: Roughly half the sidequests available are you running down an item or two for various NPCs.
* [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: The last two bosses in the game are fought in Valhalla.
* [[Final Boss Preview]]: Caius is the first and last opponent fought in the game. Partially subverted since it's {{spoiler|Bahamut is the first and last boss fought}}, but the trope counts since {{spoiler|Bahamut is the Eidolon of Caius and Jet Bahamut is the [[One-Winged Angel]] form of Caius.}}
** You also fight Caius in Oerba once.
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My destiny may change your fate
The pain my heart feels is my strength }}
** For those who finished XIII's postgame, the datacore you get for the final bonus fight, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150115083834/http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Datalog/Analects#XIII._Fabula_Nova_Crystallis "Fabula Nova Crystallis"], definitely has parallels with the 13-2 storyline... {{spoiler|and hints about what may lie beyond "[[To Be Continued]]."}}
** Similarly, the tenth Analect from ''FFXIII'' titled "The Menace Beyond", along with the "Mirror of Atropos" fragment from ''FFXIII-2'', suggest that {{spoiler|a final battle is due to take place in the Thirteenth Ark, which appears late in the game but is conspicuously irrelevant to the plot aside from giving Hope the idea to use Graviton Cores.}}
* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: {{spoiler|In scenes where Lightning is snatched from time and again at the canon ending.}}
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* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Mog
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Subverted in that the majority of the multiple endings don't actually affect the gameplay, and there is only one true ending.
* [[Name's the Same]]/[[Dub
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]
** The first boss is named Gogmagog, a Biblical reference.
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** You can see sidequests you've accepted via the menu.
** When you load your game from the title screen, a brief [["Previously On..."]] will play, reminding you of the story so far.
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: If the player has save data for ''Final Fantasy XIII'' on their HD, the success rate of the slots minigame in Xanadu/Serendipity will be higher. They also unlock several in game items, a theme for your Playstation Dashboard (for [[
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Played for ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|funny]]''. {{spoiler|The Miniflans in Sunleth Waterscape 400AF are attempting to destroy the crystal pillar, but they need others to help. Eventually, you have to fight them}}, [[Memetic Mutation|while Square-Enix plays inappropriate music]]. {{spoiler|They are defeated and scolded by Serah in mere minutes.}}
* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: The Hands of Time Temporal Rifts veer straight into this trope, with players wasting half an hour on one puzzle being a common sight. Thankfully, IGN made a excel spreadsheet that does it for you [https://web.archive.org/web/20120904154910/http://faqs.ign.com/articles/121/1218039p1.html here]. For those willing to look at Japanese, [http://nyusuke.com/game/ff13/ff13-2puzzle.html this page] doesn't require Excel. Just input the number at the top of the "clock" into the spot labeled 0 and go clockwise from there.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Caius's Theme
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Of course, [[Trope Namer|this being]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', {{spoiler|Caius can transform himself into a dark dragon called Chaos Bahamut and Jet Bahamut in the final battle.}}
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* [[Time Paradox]]: The theme of the game.
* [[Time Travel]]: The Historia Crux system allows the player to travel through gates that lead to different time periods, akin to ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''. It is slightly extended from the CT system, however, in that there are several alternate versions (in some cases up to 4, but a few are just for Paradox Endings) of most time periods.
* [[Took a Level
** Serah is an active participant in the storyline instead of a sort of [[Posthumous Character]].
** Hope. From the whiny and weak kid in the first game to {{spoiler|the de facto '''leader of the world'''}} in this one. And he saves Serah and Noel multiple times.
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* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: The eclipse that happens at some point in future history is implied to have darkened the entire continent for years. Perhaps [[Justified]] by it being caused by a fal'Cie rather than a celestial object. This trope also applies to Yaschas Massif 010AF to a lesser extent.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]:
** Beware the latest [[
** The [http://youtu.be/TludyEtj7OA?t=2m27s latest PS3 trailer] (released at the same time as the above) has another (and different!) spoiler: {{spoiler|it confirms that Lightning and Serah eventually reunite through the time travel paradigms}}, which seemed to be a little bit too far for trailers 3–4 months before the release.
* [[The Unexpected]]:
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** Infusing monsters with others, which apparently destroys the second monster. Even the monster that's been fighting with you for hours is liable to be sacrificed to a better one the moment it shows up.
* [[Void Between the Worlds]]: The Void Beyond, described as the "area between gates," which Serah and Noel use as rest stops upon their first few visits.
* [["Wake
** The weakened Atlas you fight in episode 2. This is the first battle where you'll actually have to switch paradigms and be reasonably leveled to beat.
** Similarly, the full power Atlas hammers home the concept that you are simply not going to be strong enough to pick every path. {{spoiler|Fortunately, later in the game you gain the ability to forcibly rewind time, starting chapters over.}}
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