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"Final Fantasy XIII Discussion Thread"

Big name, big game and big fan following...it's bound to be a game widely discussed!

As we seem to have a thread for most of the big games, I thought we may as well have one for this behemoth of a game - so if you have any ideas, favourite ways to play the game or just want to pass comment on what already appears to be a fantastic and absorbing game - please post here.

If you want to discuss the plot or other aspects of the storyline - remember to use the tags to hide it from people who want to play the game without ruining it for themselves.

first off...I'm liking the combat system now - no definite turn based combat? Action seems to be constant even though you have to select your moves. Brilliant?

Right, so Barthandelus Fight 1, my suggestion:

I believe for this fight I had Lightning, Snow/Fang, Vanille. Paradigms of use being RAV/COM/RAV, RAV/COM/MED, MED/SEN/MED.

Firstly, librascope to start off to get the four heads' weaknesses and strengths, and just go ahead attacking the heads one by one with Relentless Assault and Diversity (for healing if the attacks of Barthandelus are hurting too much).

Following the destruction of the heads, the body becomes vulnerable. A similiar sort of strategy, Relentless Assault to increase the chain gauge and Diversity for healing.

For more powerful attacks: T Smile, I suggest Combat Clinic, then back to normal after healing.

Destrudo: Relentless Assault until Barthandelus collapses, this significantly reduces the amount of damage that he gives out (although i'd still suggest a switch to Combat Clinic just to minimize the amount of damage and speed up the party healing)

Continuing the switch between offense and defence should have Barthandelus down with very few problems.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> Warhunt wrote:
> I've pretty much explained the weapon upgrading system to death
> on this thread as it goes. You might pick up some pointers
> there.
>
> TBH tho, it doesn't really matter what you pick for each
> char.... just pick one and upgrade it and stick with it.
>
> K, thanks. I know there are only 6 pages but that saves me
> trawling backwards with one eye closed :)
>
> I think darksoul is talking about the Primarch Bar(something).
> I remember defeating that by pure luck and lots of teeth gnashing

barthendules is his name wot stratadgy would you suggest?

Thats the only trophy i don't have atm.

The amount of work it needs is insane. You need to have held all the rank 1, rank 2 and at least 1 version of the ultimate weapon for each character.

To upgrade to rank 2 is fairly cheap.... but 8 weapons on each 6 char adds up. Then add 6 upgrades from rank 2 to ultimate.....

It's a fortune put it that way.

I ran out of shrouds ages ago ><

I'm not going for the treasure hunter trophy though so I think it's time I started to destroy all the stuff I never ever used.

Thanks for the tips :)

Make sure you stock up on Shrouds before the hunts. Makes things much much easier to get 5 star when having the haste shroud on.

also a small tip, the star rating system is dependant on how "good" your characters are. Some of the marks become easier to 5 star if you actually take off your best gear. (This is quite rare though).

Oh my... Done! :D

I really, really, enjoyed playing this game in the end and am so glad I nicked my nephews PS3 for it. He's making gentle hints that he'd like it back now but I'm not handing it over yet. Going to go back and finish the missions which will mean upgrading some of the stuff I've collected.

Not finding them that easy now. I'm being deaded before I can finish the thought "hmm... what do I do here" ><

I'll be honest, the boss at the end of chapter 11 caused me a lot less problems than people had me believe he would. It was a bit awkward with my girlfriend watching me play with her being a couple of chapters behind, trying to ensure no spoilers got through...managed to not give too much away, I think.

It's pretty easy to redo them. Teleporter just outside (ish). ANd the missions themselves are easy.

At last I find that I'm now addicted to this game after running around and doing a few missions. After doing the first couple I just kept 'having a quick look' at the next one. 10 missions later it's 3.00 am and I had to quit and go sleep! Not surprised I was having so much trouble at the end of chapter 11 - it's disgusting what I missed out earlier.

Not even the thought of having to redo the tower quests is dampening my enthusiasm atm

... and solve it I did :)