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Yes. The whole beginning section of chapter 13 is accessible until you fight the first mini-boss fight.

Dagonites can be controlled with Thundaga-spam if you equip Auto-Vigilance or Auto-Tetradefense. Summons are also extremely effective against Dagonites. Otherwise, Dispel(ga) to clear their buffs will prevent them from using the highly disruptive Dash attack. Sacrifices are very vulnerable to...

Yes. Make whatever you can conveniently make, if anything, and then fight it as best you can. Worst-case scenario--if you can't make anything--you use Espionage for a round after Hecatoncheir leaves to get Haste on Vanille, and you miss out on a couple of Death casts per fight. Odds are still...

You don't need any of them. You want as many as you can muster up. Let me explain. The most important things are the Aurora Scarf and Sprint Shoes on Sazh. This combination means that he immediately casts Haste on Vanille at the start of the battle, so she always has a Haste that lasts the...

That would be the left foreleg of Adamantoise, and yes, that's the enemy in the linked video.

Tips on chapter 12: Army of One, Last Resort, and Cold Blood are your best weapons against the bosses. Use them post-stagger for a major chain boost (and thus higher damage) Curse and careful attack timing is your best weapon against Behemoth King Daze is your best weapon against...

Same here. When I'm in the mood for great combat, I often play FFXIII.

I'm a big advocate of doing the early missions (up through 14 or so). Doing them during chapter 11 makes them more interesting because they're still challenging instead of being walkovers, and many of the rewards are more relevant at this point in the game. Missions give you a nice mix of...

Huh. I admit I was expecting the Archylte Steppe theme, not Yaschas Massif. Both good though.

Fang makes a strong leader and Lightning is an excellent support (AI-controlled) character, so you should do well with those two characters. Now, pardon me while I get on my soapbox for a second.... I think it's potentially limiting to say, "I'm going to use X character in Y role" no...

You can make pretty much any party work if you try hard enough, but parties that include both Sazh and Vanille have a distinct advantage through chapters 10 and 11. These two characters give nigh-exclusive access to Haste and Imperil, earlier access to the rest of the offensive buffs (Bravery...

Glad to hear you're planning to finish! Yes, in XIII-2 you can capture monsters. It's a big piece of the battle system in that game.

Luckily, the gameplay that exists (i.e., combat) is pretty excellent. Otherwise the game would have very little to recommend it.

Lightning is able to BLOCK damage from the soldier gunfire in that video because she has some level of Physical Wall synthesized (probably Physical Wall 10) and the gunfire damage is low enough for the Wall ability to completely block it at least some of the time. If you wanted, you could...

Eh, unless you're grinding, you'll stop hitting the level cap by chapter 7 or so. It's best to develop the three main roles (the three they get first) for every character. Prioritize key nodes like Accessory, Role Levels, and abilities over random stat nodes unless the stat gain is abnormally...

3x Witch's Bracelets on each character is probably your best bet. If you're willing to spend the cash Magus's Bracelets are 5 percentage points better, but it takes Adamantite to make them so they're quite expensive. They'll get you from ~58% resistance to ~66% resistance. The Diamond Bangles...

The main thing you need is lots and lots of magic resistance accessories. You also need to use conditional chain bonuses to achieve stagger; the easiest to get are "alternate attacks" and "have buffs on you/debuffs on target". To 5-star the mission, you'll definitely need buffs and debuffs...

You apparently managed to miss my complete disagreement with everything that I cited from the guide. There's nothing else to say that doesn't boil down to either misinterpretation on your part or fundamental disagreements that won't be resolved; I don't see any point in repeating points I've...

What? Get out. Those qualities redeem the game, for me, from the lack of side content, lack of character customization, and minimal exploration aspects. Just because I've never bothered to explain my complete thoughts on the game here, you think I don't have them? Bullshit. Are you just...

Yes, those are redeeming factors to me. Please don't claim that you know what's going on inside my head. That certainly wasn't the intent. He stated that he found no redeeming factors in the game, which is fine. I was simply sharing the things I personally did find redeeming. These factors...