Final Fantasy XIII-2: Difference between revisions

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'''This article assumes you have played ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' and will have unmarked spoilers from that game.'''

* [[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.

* [[BFS]]: Caius' sword is about as big as he is. He can still swing it pretty fast.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: The Odinblade and Odinbolt don't achieve their full potential until you've acquired every fragment, at which point they receive a large jump in damage output, but then there's nothing to use them on... [[Averted Trope|except]] [[Downloadable Content|the DLC coliseum fights]].

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Gilgamesh doesn't even know what a fourth wall is.

* [[Break Meter]]: The same mechanic as the first game makes a return.

* [[Brick Joke]]:

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The main party in [[Final Fantasy XIII]], save for Hope, is affected by this. There are short [[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.

** It is possible to win the Lucky Coin Fragment in Serendipity while playing as Serah only (i.e. - when you get lost in the Void Beyond and Serah is alone without Noel.) If you do, Noel's comment in the cut-scene will be absent.

* [[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.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

** The "Worlds Collide" battle theme references several plot points. Interesting how they reference ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''.

The pain my heart feels is my strength }}

** For those who finished XIII's postgame, the datacore you get for the final bonus fight, [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]]."}}

** 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|Double Entendres]] (see also [[Final Fantasy XIV]])

A: 1/1 scale Serah Farron }}

* [[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.

** You also wouldn't be able to find all Artefacts to open up the mostly-optional Gates.

** The quiz show is a parody/exaggeration of this trope. It's starts off easy, but then [[Random Number God|suddenly asks incredulous questions that relies on your luck]]. Example:

** The hidden monsters that require throwing Mog. Some of them make a little sense, but it's rather annoying to find out that one of the best Commando monsters in the game, Chichu, require this.

** If you want to collect all of the [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|adornments]] in the game, be prepared to either throw Mog a ''lot'' ([[Randomly Drops|about 10 times]] [[Up to Eleven|at every possible place in the game]]), or consult a guide.

* [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|The secret ending, which appears after the ending credits, after [[Hundred-Percent Completion]], with the Paradox Scope enabled.}}

* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: Found in a Fragment that provides a poem about the sheep of Gran Pulse titled "The Melancholy of the Lambs:"

''a tuft from my...[[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|side]].'' }}

* [[Take That]]: An Academia 4XX AF NPC girl notes this:

* [[Take Your Time]]: Due to how the Historia Crux works, time will stop flowing in one location once you leave, and will only continue flowing when you return. Because of this, there is no rush to complete an area's objective.

** Atlas, once he fully materializes, will wait for you in that courtyard for as long as you want while you continue running around the Bresha Ruins doing other stuff.