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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
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.
When a mysterious teen called Noel Kreiss drops into Serah's life and promises to take her to Lightning, Serah eagerly accepts this opportunity to discover the truth. Noel reveals that he is a [[Time Travel
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* [[100% Completion]]: The game requires you to [[Guide Dang It|completely fill out every map and monster]]<ref>You only need to kill each monster once, not Librascope them to completion, but you will need to get their variants, another thing the game ''doesn't tell you''.</ref> and [[Last Lousy Point|obtain all of the Fragments]] in order to view the Secret Ending. However, in order to do this, you ''will need to'' [[Guide Dang It|obtain several of the hidden monsters]] that would help against the [[Nintendo Hard]] status of the game.
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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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** At least three endings involve this trope. For the record, they are {{spoiler|the normal ending with Lightning, the Oerba Paradox Ending, and Augusta Tower 200AF.}}
* [[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
* [[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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* [[Arc Number]]:
** Although the number thirteen doesn't appear as often as in the previous game, the Thirteenth Ark appears towards the end of the game. This means that it's now also an [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Ark Number]].
** Almost all [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] monsters have exactly 12 Crystarium nodes, which means that they max out at, you guessed it, level 13.
** Snow also says he's going to explore the "13 different ages" in one of the paradox endings.
** The clock in Valhalla strikes 13, the hardest Hands of Time clock faces have 13 numbers on them, and the face of the clock in one of the card games in Sazh's [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] goes up to 13.
** After completing the Fragment quests in Augusta Tower 200AF, you are awarded with the key to floor 13.
** In the original ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', a five-star battle rating for a standard battle was 13,000. In ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', it's 15,000 (13,000 + 2,000 - ''13-2''.)
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* [[Beef Gate]]:
** In order to unlock the gate in the Archylte Steppe to reach the Vile Peaks, you'll have to defeat three Gigantaurs (one at a time, not all at once), which are very powerful the first time you visit the location.
** A near-''literal'' one can be found in Academia 400 AF. While you're following Caius, the path you're ''not'' supposed to take is blocked off by a large Undying. You know, the Cie'th that were [[Bonus Boss
** Long Gui is one if you decide to abandon all common sense and fight it instead of scaring it off with thunder like you're supposed to.
* [[Betting Minigame]]: You can play slots and chocobo racing (and in a [[Downloadable Content|DLC]], cards) in Serendipity and bet coins.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Serah is very nice and gentle, but if you don't do your homework, cause mischief, or doom humanity, you will be in for quite the scolding!
** Which is also the case in one of the optional mission areas.
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** Most monsters that are "early peakers". They have fantastic growth and can carry you through a chapter or two of the game, but since they're capped at level 20, they'll soon get outpaced by increasingly stronger enemies and better monsters.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: The Heart of Chaos. {{spoiler|It allows the user to have power of chaos itself and [[Immortality]]. Caius has it as a gift from Etro herself as being the sole Guardian of Yeul, and only the person who kills him can take it. This concept quickly makes a left turn into [[Deconstruction]] when Caius is later known to have [[Death Seeker]] tendencies after living for an ''extremely'' long time and witnessing Yeul die countless times.}}
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: The three [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] story packs for Snow, Sazh, and Lightning.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]:
** In this game, spells are ordered in the battle menu by power level (so first all the normal spells, then the '-a's, then the '-ga's) as opposed to the original XIII's ordering by element. (Fire, Fira, Firaga, etc.) For those who played the first game a lot, this can take some getting used to.
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* [[Degraded Boss]]: Some monsters have moved up or down between ''XIII'' and ''XIII-2''.
** Malebranche is basically Attacus from ''XIII'', and while Attacus was considered a boss in ''XIII'', Malebranche is a regular enemy here. Same goes for Tonberries, though they're a rare encounter.
** There are some inversions as well: The Immortal and Ochus were regular, if strong and rare, enemies in the first game, but are unique [[Bonus Boss
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The main party in [[Final Fantasy XIII]], save for Hope, is affected by this. There are short [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] episodes for Lightning, Snow, and Sazh, which allow you to recruit them into your party.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: If you decide to go to Augusta Tower 200AF after going to its 300AF counterpart to get a keycard, Noel will remark that you already have the key.
{{quote|'''Noel:''' ''If the key we need is something that is in a different time period, don't we already have it?''}}
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* [[Dialog During Gameplay]]: Few NPCs in the game are actually able to be talked to; the rest of the NPCs can be heard by walking by them.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Yeul to Caius and Noel multiple times; Serah to Noel in the ending.}}
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: If you manage to max level the Dragoon from Augusta Tower 200AF, you will be able to use him through the ''rest of the game'', short of [[Bonus Boss
** The Behemoths you're told to avoid in Yaschas Massif 010 AF. It is possible to beat one as long as you have a Saboteur and a Medic, and its recruit rate is decent enough to make capturing it on your first visit a possibility.
** A lot of the monsters labeled with "Early Peaker" have a low max level and pretty high stats compared to other choices. However, most of them lose out in the long run.
** The [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] weapons are really useful up until you start to do sidequests near the endgame.
* [[Discount Card]]:
** One of the Fragment Skills will reduce the price of items.
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* [[Failure Knight]]: Caius and Noel to Yeul, which justifies Noel's [[The Dulcinea Effect|protectiveness]] of Serah. {{spoiler|Caius succeeds in reviving Yeul while Noel fails to protect Serah.}}
* [[Fan Service]]: One of the members of the game's production team actually [[Word of God|stated outright]] that Mog's presence in the game was intended as a form of fanservice, though this is one instance where it doesn't have anything to do with sex. Of course, one might begin to believe that it's actually intended as a form of a [[Fan Disservice]] after about the fifth time of hearing Mog say "I'll be helping in spirit, so good luck, kupo!" after failing at one of the Temporal Rift puzzles.
** One of the [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] options is to have Serah spend most of the game (excluding certain cutscenes) in a pink bikini.
* [[Fashions Never Change]]: With one or two exceptions, fashion changes very little over the centuries you travel; Academia and military uniforms not at all.
* [[Fastball Special]]:
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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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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** A close look at Serah's black modesty shorts shows that they fit her REALLY well.
** Some of the quiz questions in Academia 4XX demonstrate Square-Enix's newfound love of [[Double Entendre
{{quote|Q: What act performed by the comedian Fl-Fl-Flan got him booted off of every TV station?
A: Wanna touch my Shaolong Gui?
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* [[Ghost Town]]: Oerba is still this, even after hundreds of years. The game gives it a [[Hand Wave]] by explaining that Hope ordered the place to be preserved in honor of Vanille and Fang. Plus, the area is ''continuously'' under Paradox Effects, so going there is very dangerous for anyone other than Serah, Noel, Mog, and maybe Chocolina.
* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: [[Averted Trope|Etro]].Etro is a very kind goddess. She unfortunately does not know her own limits. {{spoiler|The happy ending in ''XIII'' was caused by an intervention. The Heart of Chaos and the Eyes of Etro were both gifts from her. She indirectly caused the majority of bad events to happen.}}
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Of the optional variety. Like many [[Mon
** One fragment is obtained as a reward for having defeated every single enemy in the game at least once.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: When {{spoiler|Noel is [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]] by [[Big Bad|Caius]]}}.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Lightning being crystallized during the ending is supposed to be her protecting Serah's will after she died. Some elements of [[Despair Event Horizon]] also come into play, as Lightning [[You Can't Fight Fate|realized what Caius did]].}}
** {{spoiler|Serah realizes towards the end of the game that trying to fight fate to save the future will shorten her lifespan and may kill her. She decides to continue fighting, and does indeed die from the visions.}}
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: The rest of the cast of ''XIII'' (Lightning, Sazh, Snow, and Hope) are not idle while you are off saving the timeline, and while they dip in and out of the story throughout the game, they remain mostly orbital storylines that we know little about. Their [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] packages explain a little bit more about what they've been up to.
* [[How We Got Here]]: You are shown in the opening sequence in which Lightning is fighting against Caius in the city called Valhalla. {{spoiler|The ending sequence has Valhalla being remade on Gran Pulse as per the death of Etro, with Chaos spreading across the land. Serah dies, Caius narrates, and Lightning is shown as a [[Taken for Granite|crystal]]. "A future I could not protect," indeed.}}
* [[Hub Level]]: The Historia Crux serves as a menu-screen version of this. Each node on the map marks a different era and location. To unlock other nodes, you must activate time gates within those locations.
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* [[Last Lousy Point|Last Lousy Fragment]]:
** You'll also need to fight Long Gui and Yomi for two Fragments, who are considered by some to be even tougher then the final boss.
** Yet another Fragment requires that you earn tons of coins from the slot machine. And in this game, the slot machines behave like real
** The Travel Guide: Academia fragment requires 100% completion of all Academia maps. Academia 400 has constantly-spawning, mostly inescapable enemies to trip you up. Academia 4XX is by far the most complex map in the game, full of little nooks and crannies that will take hours to explore fully. Academia 500 is a constantly shifting [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|platforming]] level with multiple switches changing which platforms are accessible. Bring a snack and a stress-ball.
** At least one of the Paradox Endings Beneath A Timeless Sky and Heart of Chaos will make you rage. Both of them are fights against a ''really hard'' version of Caius, who can ''and will'' kill you in less than a minute at max stats. The right strategy can make them easier, but you'll probably see a game over at least once.
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** This seems to be how the Proto-Fal'cie instantly converts people into Cie'th.
* [[Limit Break]]:
** [[Mon
** Serah and Noel both can get their Full ATB Attack (Serah's is Ultima Arrow and Noel's in Meteor Javelin), but they're only useable once per fight.
** The Scourge ability that Commandos can use. It only activates if any enemy is about to recover from Stagger, and does about four times normal damage.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The loading screens last much longer then the first game, and it really shows. At worst, it could take a full minute. There's also every time you enter a timeline from the menu. The resulting traveling-through-time animation always takes
* [[Lost Forever]]: Mostly averted. After obtaining the proper seal, you can lock a time gate and go back to the area as it was when you first arrived. Because of this, few things are truly lost, even the Live Trigger rewards, but at the moment some of the gate seals don't work properly and thus don't return you to the very beginning of that location, Archelyte Steppe being a major offender.
** Unique monster crystals that can only be gotten by throwing Mog at specific spots used to be this in the sense that if you picked the wrong Crystarium upgrades for them or infused another monster with them (which was the only way to pass on the useful Pack Mentality skill), you couldn't get another one, but thanks to Snow's [[Downloadable Content|DLC]], all versions of Valfodr have 2 of the unique monsters as their drop items and thus you can get as many extras as you want.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: {{spoiler|Serah and Noel get trapped in separate ones. Vanille and Fang free Serah from hers, and Serah saves Noel from his.}}
* [[Magikarp Power]]: A few monsters can fall straight into this trope.
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* [[Min-Maxing]]: The Crystarium has big nodes that give you a small stat bonus in either HP, ATK, or MAG depending on which role you decide to level up on the big node, which starts adding up if you concentrate on a single stat. As a result, some people opt to have an all-MAG and all-ATK build for Serah and Noel, respectively.
** Similarly, you level up your [[Mons]] with materials that enhance one of the same three stats at each node, or [[Master of None|all three to a slightly lesser degree]].
* [[Mon
* [[Monster Arena]]: The Coliseum allows you to fight optional bosses. All of them are [[Downloadable Content|DLC]], though.
* [[Monster Compendium]]: With a sidequest for [[100% Completion]], to boot.
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: Chocolina, who's always cheery no matter where she is (with a few exceptions. In {{spoiler|Academia 400 AF, she's depressed that everyone's being turned into Cie'th. Right before the finale in Academia 500 AF, she also gets a little downcast when she realizes that if Serah and Noel resolve the final paradox, she may never see them again.}})
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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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* [[No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom]]: Intentionally and deliberately averted with areas more complex and intertwined than before.
* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]]:
** The characters will be happy to remind you what's going on nearly every time you enter a gate. This is useful if you've been sidetracked [[Gotta Catch Em All|catching]] [[Mons]], [[Sidequest
** 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.}}
** Special mention for {{spoiler|Jet Bahamut: He brings along Garnet Bahamut and Amber Bahamut, and constantly re-summons them throughout the fight. That's right, the last boss is [[Actually Four Mooks|actually three dragons]].}}
* [[Palette Swap]]:
** Several bosses are directly re-used from ''13'', only with a new paint
** On a larger scale, many monsters are "family" monsters which reuse very similar or exactly the same models, with new textures. This is actually ''useful'' in some instances, as it's possible to find monsters with the Pack Mentality auto-ability, which makes them stronger if all three monsters in your Paradigm Pack are from the same family.
** Most of the NPCs are palette swaps of each other, with only clothing and hair color changed.
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* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: After Snow leaves to find Lightning, Serah adopts a cat and names it Snow.
* [[Ret-Gone]]:
** {{spoiler|Lightning, of all people, in the "main" timeline.}} Makes seeing snippets of the ending of ''XIII'', only with that particular character missing (and Serah being the only one who notices anything is
** Ironically, this is [[Inverted]] as well in a big way. {{spoiler|Namely, Etro did the inverse, saving the party from ''XIII'' after the fight with Orphan, which causes [[It Got Worse|a few problems.]]}}
* [[The Reveal]]: Turns out, it's the moogle's bobble that allows them to fly. The wings are just for show.
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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
* [[The Unexpected]]:
** Available through the [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] is Lightning's former superior, Lieutenant Amodar. He's a Commando-role "monster".
** Jhil Nabaat is an available combatant.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]
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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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