Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360)

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Achievements

Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.

AchievementHow to unlock
Adamant Will ( 30 points )Felled a heavyweight of the lowerworld wilds.
Commando's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Commando role.
Limit Breaker ( 30 points )Dealt 100,000+damage with a single attack.
Loremaster ( 80 points )Discerned the full attributes of 100 enemies.
Master's Seal ( 30 points )Fully developed all characters.
Medic's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Medic role.
Ravager's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Ravager role.
Saboteur's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Saboteur role.
Sentinel's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Sentinel role.
Synergist's Seal ( 15 points )Mastered the Synergist role.
Treasure Hunter ( 80 points )Held every weapon and accessory.

Angry or tired character

When not in a battle, quickly move the Analog-stick Left and Right repeatedly. Character will become angry or tired.

CP Farming in Chapter 11

There are two good places to level up your Crystarium when you come into the Archelyte Steppe in the beginning of Ch. 11. The first one can be found in the Southwest Corner of the main map, the Western Benchland. South of the pond, there is a peninsula where little birdlike characters mass around. At first this seems like an intimidating battle, considering that the enemies will summon characters making the battles very long. However, this can be remedied, if you have 3 of the following four characters: Lightning, Fang, Snow, and Sazh. You'll only really need the following paradigms: Commando x3 / Commando x2+Ravager / Commando x2+Medic / Sentinel+Commando+Medic / Sentinel+Medicx2. Set the base mode on Commando x3 and go into battle.

If you're able to get behind them it makes the battles all that much easier. Once you get the hang of things, you'll learn their pattern and be able to get them more often than not in a surprise attack. Have your leader, whomever you choose to have it attack with Ruinaga, followed by blitz. The Ruinaga will toss them into the air a tiny bit and hit multiple targets in a wide radius. The blitz should hit the same amount of people. Your support characters should attack with Blitz, Blitz, and then standard attack. The Ruinaga spell is important because it keeps the baddies from being able to mass a constant attack on you as well as keeping them unable to summon whoever they are going to bring into the battle. CP ranges from 2000 to 3500 for your 35-45 seconds of effort. If you're having a hard time, try Commando x2 + Ravager, and you may be able to juggle them a little, but the commandos really shred HP in this fight.

The second method should be undertaken when you've gotten more HP and strength, since the fights will be harder. North of the first point, there is a place where the big wolf and a behemoth are fighting. Hit them. Concentrate first on the Behemoth and take him out. Don't kill the wolf, since he's your buffer from being behemoth's lunch. Take them out, 6000+CP. Then turn around, jump down to the west and take out the 3 groups of wolfs for 2000-3000 CP. Repeat this and you'll have tons of CP in no time.

CP Farming in Chapter 8

Right at the clocktower in the park, you'll find a chest with five of those little robots running around it. You can beat them up for 640 cp and loop back to the prior chest area (with one of the monsters) and the group of five will respawn.

CP Farming in Chapters 8 and 9

Here are a couple really solid CP grinding areas in Chapters 8 and 9.

The first spot is right after the attack on Hope's home in Parumpolum in Chapter 8. There are two sets of soldiers who will keep respawning inside the house endlessly. All you have to do is run down the halls a bit and they come right back and they will be there again. Defeating them yields a good amount of CP, and they drop incentive chips which you can sell for 2,500 and buy upgrade parts for your weapons.

I maxed out all my players and upgraded Lightning's weapon from level 16-22 in only 40 minutes of fighting.

The second spot when you're going to rescue Sazh and Vanille in Chapter 9. After you finish the outside fighting portion on the flagship you head inside; in there you get a "green alert" warning the enemy to your presence. Instead of proceeding further, go back outside and you will see that the enemies have respawned.

In fact, just right outside the door you will get into a battle with five enemies which nets you over 700 CP each time as well as dropping Silicon Oil plus incentive and credit chips. After each fight, head back inside around two corners to respawn the enemy. Do this as many times as you want and head inside to the save point to sell the chips and upgrade your weapons and you'll get everyone to level 3 of all their roles in no time.

I prefer these two places becuase of the incentive chips.

Easy CP

Use the following trick to get 6,600 CP in about two minutes. There are two Behemoth-like enemies fighting each other at Gran Pulse. When you encounter them a preemptive attack will always happen. Use the following Optima set-up: Attacker/Enhancer/Enhancer. Wait until you get Haste and Fire elemental offense. Then, switch to Attacker/Blaster/Blaster. Kill the purple creature to make the white one is easier to defeat. Return near the save point to have them respawn.

Final Fantasy 4 reference

The town of Palompolum is a reference to the twin magicians Palom and Porom from Final Fantasy 4. When properly translated into the Western alphabet from Japanese kanji, Porom should be spelled "Polom" or "Polum." The town's name is simply the names of the twins combined into one word.

Final Fantasy 5 reference

The "Galuf's Grail", "Dorgann's Trophy", "Kelger's Cup", and "Xezat's Chalice" achievements and trophies (acquired for completing various levels of C'eith Stone missions) are a reference to the Dawn Warriors in Final Fantasy 5. Galuf was a playable character for a little over the half of the game, and Dorgann was the main character's (Bartz Klauser) father. Kelger and Xezat were NPCs.

Gamer pics

Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding gamer pic.

Fang: Unlock the "Treasure Hunter" achievement.
Hope: Unlock the "Instrument Of Change" achievement.
Lightning: Unlock the "Superstar" achievement.
Sazh: Unlock the "Loremaster" achievement.
Serah: Unlock all achievements.
Snow: Unlock the "L'Cie Paragon" achievement.
Vanille: Unlock the "Instrument Of Faith" achievement.

Hoppin' Mad

Whenever you have control of your character outside of battle, move the analog stick left and right quickly. Do this enough (6 or so times) and your character will come to an abrupt stop and emote -- expressing anger or fatigue.

Last Second Menu

At the last second before a cutscene ends (and leads into a boss battle), press the MENU BUTTON and you'll be sent to the Menu Screen. (This is useful if you forgot to change weapons, switch paradigms, etc.).

Secret Achievements

Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.

AchievementHow to unlock
Dorgann's Trophy ( 30 points )Completed all high-level Cie'th Stone missions.
Exorcist ( 30 points )Triumphed over undying lowerworld souls in seven fierce battles.
Floraphobe ( 30 points )Toppled a green terror and cut an oversized succulent down to size.
Galuf's Grail ( 30 points )Completed all Cie'th Stone missions.
Gysahl Wreath ( 15 points )Discovered buried treasure with a little help from a chocobo.
Instrument of Change ( 95 points )Witnessed the dawn of a new crystal legend.
Instrument of Dissent ( 15 points )Survived the Purge to confront a greater peril.
Instrument of Faith ( 30 points )Defied destiny's charge and embarked on a different path.
Instrument of Fate ( 15 points )Took the first steps toward challenging an unjust fate.
Instrument of Flight ( 15 points )Slipped through the net and lived to fight the day.
Instrument of Hope ( 15 points )Traveled to the world below, seeking a way to alternate fate.
Instrument of Rebellion ( 15 points )Made plans to infiltrate enemy-occupied territory.
Instrument of Shame ( 15 points )Carried the burden of guilt to the end of the line.
Instrument of Survival ( 15 points )Evaded pursuers, though memories of the past still gave chase.
Instrument of Tragedy ( 15 points )Strode into danger's den and paid the consequences.
Instrument of Truth ( 15 points )Recognized the true threat to the world's future.
Instrument of Vengeance ( 15 points )Resolved to be more than a victim of circumstance,
Instrument of Wrath ( 15 points )Took the fight to the enemy's door.
Kelger's Cup ( 15 points )Completed all low-level Cie'th Stone missions.
L'Cie Paragon ( 80 points )Earned a 5-star ranking for all Cie'th Stone missions.
Natural Selector ( 30 points )Passed Titan's trials.
Pulsian Pioneer ( 15 points )Took over 10,000 steps on the lowerworld surface
Superstar ( 80 points )Earned a 5-star ranking in the battle to determine the world's fate.
Xezat's Chalice ( 15 points )Completed all mid-level Cie'th Stone missions.

Secret Animation

If you turn the left stick quickly on the field screen, then the character you are controlling will do an animation. For example, Hope will shake his head and look at the ground.

Snow's "Perfect Defense" state

With an advanced party, it is possible for Snow to enter a "perfect defense" state. Equip him with his Winged Saint weapon or save the queen upgrade (for the improved Guard II ability); your three active party members must have reached Role level 5 as Sentinels. Paradigm Shift to Tortoise (SEN + SEN + SEN), and have snow preform Steelguard or Mediguard. Any attack aimed at him during that time will inflict only 1% damage or less.

Sprint Shoes accessory

You can either find this item or make them. This is one of the methods to make them using a Tetradic Tiara. Follow the order exactly. Also, this works best if you have the accessory that makes you more likely to get a drop after a battle. Make sure you upgrade it to the top tier as well.

1.Buy Four Iron-Bangles (500 Gil each)
2.Make sure there are no Tetradic Tiaras in your inventory.
3.Repeatedly do mission 7 (Disc 3, Gran Pulse) until you get the rare drop of a Tetradic Tiara.
4.Save the game.
5.Break down all four Iron-Bangles.
6.Upgrade Tetradic Tiara level 1 to Tetradic Tiara ? (only one level till star).
7.Break down Tetra Tiara ?
8.Repeat the steps as desired.

The result should be one raw material that sells for 12,500 Gil, three Talisman and one pair of Sprint Shoes. You can do the same process if you get the drop of Tetradic Crown instead of the Tiara, however instead of breaking down four Iron-Bangles, just break down three. Also, instead of getting the Sprint Shoes you'll get something else called Herme's Shoes. If you upgrade this to the star level (just one level) then upgrade it with the correct crystal/stone/etc., it will turn into the Sprint Shoes. Alternately, you could take the Tetradic Crown, upgrade it to star level, then using the correct stone/crystal (Mnir Stone or something similar) you can turn it into Tetradic Tiara and do he process above.

Super Weapon Exploit

Each character has one super weapon that can be obtained by fully upgrading one of his/her stock weapons.

Each player has seven stock weapons but the final result after maximum upgrades yields the same super weapon.

Upgrading is done through the shop at save points. There are two parts to upgrading:

(1) Spamming items which give a low amount of EXP to increase multipliers, and (2) Using items which give a lot of EXP, and that now give even more EXP due to your multiplier, to upgrade your weapon substantially.

An efficient way to build the multiplier is to go to the Creature Comforts store and buy Vibrant Ooze. Apply 36 of those to your weapon and you will have a 3x multiplier. Then you can apply Perfect Conductor for 2577 EXP.

Upgrading Tips

Study Bones / Ooze / Tail are the three 80gil items which take 36 to equal a 3x multiplier. So, 2880 gil gets you 3x. If you're a Gil pincher - save money and wait until you can upgrade an item to max level in one shot - save the investment to a one time shot at multiplier. Furthermore, you won't need to level up any weapons until you're at a point you should be able to afford the expense.

If you would rather just play and level up - do that - don't worry about the gil it costs you - just have fun and be happy.

While Fluids and Oils may give more EXP, they're a waste since the inorganic items are so much better - you are better offf getting to 3x as soon as possible, and then switching to inorganic.

For farmable scenes (like chapter 11) - nothing beats the bomb parts. I had nearly a two full stacks of bomb things from Marks and used them to level up most of the accessories required so I could unlock 'em all for the treasure hunter achievement/trophy.