Main Quest - Yusnaan

As soon as the opening scene ends, exit the station and check Chocolina's message board for new quests, before moving to explore this bustling city. Grab a Blitz Lv.2 from the treasure sphere and continue further down Central Avenue, where you'll see a Schrodinger monster waiting to be killed.

Defeat this enemy now to score the Civet Musk item which you will be needing for a side quest later. The rest of the hostiles are mostly guards and Flanitors in which the latter drops the Clear Ooze item, a requirement in one of the Canvas of Prayers missions. If you came to this city late in the morning, Morris will be some ways further down Central Avenue and he'll have a job for you.

Chat with the locals as you go to gather information about an alternate route into Snow's palace, and once you reach the Fountain Square, Olga will be there to welcome you with a side quest.

Baird's colleague Ramira has set up shop on the stairs leading don to the Lower City so hand over there to trade the Soul Seeds you're carrying if any. You'll be passing through here while doing Olga's quest anyway so you're bound to find the spot yourself. Back at the Fountain Square, keep an eye out for a group of alchemists clad in white robes. One of them will hand out a mission.

There's a treasure sphere with a Mage Gloves in the Fountain Square, Promised Necklace at Hawker's Row. as well as a Wolf's Emblem at the Aromatic Market. The one other thing worth looking into are the Chocobo Girls who appear in various locations in the city from 5 PM to 3 AM. They will give Lightning some Fireworks in return for her silliness much to Hope's amusement.

You won't actually be needing the Fireworks yet. They are for the second part of the main quest for this location, but I might as well cover them here: The first Chocobo Girl is in the alley south of Reveler's Quarter. The magic words are printed in a poster on the wall here as well so read that first. The second Chocobo Girl is at the Aromatic Market, while the third is seen hanging around Hawker's Row. Finally the last Chocobo Girl is at the entrance of the Slaughterhouse in Champions Quarter. Finding all four Chocobo Girls will reward Lightning with a rare garb, the Miqo'te Dress.

Return to the Revelers Quarter and jump down the hole there to reach the Underground Route, where you'll find two items -- the Oath of Merchants Guild and Desert Flame. Climb back up, look for a tour guide clad in pink and purchase a ticket for 2000 gil. The gate leading to the Industrial District does not open until 6 PM so kill time until then. There are some new enemies worth fighting at the Lower City, one of which drops the invaluable Evade ability (the monster with floppy wings).

Once you've stepped into the Industrial District, keep following the blue marker until you come to the second ladder that you need to climb. Check one of the corners nearby for a Bronze Pocket Watch. Keep going some ways more and you'll soon reach the Warehouse District, where a mandatory battle with a Cyclops follows. You can pick up a Jade Comb just before you step onto the combat zone so don't miss it. Defeat the Cyclops for the Single Eye, which is a request item.

In the Warehouse, start moving toward the blue marker again, and make sure you steal the ID Card from one of the remains as you go. There is a Sight's Circlet on top of the pile of red crates north of the area as well. Moving on, you'll emerge back to the city through the Underground Route once you make it out of the warehouse. Follow it out to the Reveler's Quarter and now that you have an ID, you can use it to enter Augur's Quarter where things don't go as planned. Onward to Plan B.

Grab the Corundum Pin from underneath one of the floats. Climb the stairs and you'll find Sarzhak, the man in charge on the balcony. Talk to him and then go chat with the Fireworks Boss to get a note. At this point, the locations of the pyrotechnics people will be marked on the map, but they only show up at specific times during the night. So you can either wait (if you want) or find alternative sources. There is a drunk pyrotechnician at Central Avenue who gives Fireworks for some booze.

The other man with a request is Funicula who is at Hawker's Row near the tunnel (Road to War). He'll give you 7 Fireworks if you help him out. The Chocobo Girls will be another excellent source with 4 pieces of Fireworks if you manage to find all 4 of them. You might also want to stop by the Industrial District to meet Wedge then Biggs, as they both happen to have challenges for Lightning.

Once you have 10 (or more) Fireworks, return to the Fireworks Boss by 12:30 AM and hand them over then go speak to the director (Sarzhak). Now you have to win yourself a costume for the play so head over to the Slaughterhouse at the Coliseum Square and join the special tournament. This automatically triggers the side quest The Fighting Actress. Win all 3 rounds and you get the Midnight Muave garb. Put it on then return to the director. The show's finale does not start until 3 AM so if you got time to spare go do other things until then. I'd suggest trying the Slaughterhouse matches some more and rack up a total of 10 wins. Doing so will reward you with the Queen of the Arena trophy.

When you finally enter Snow's palace, follow the map marker through the structure. You should have quite a bit of idea where to go since you've been here before One thing to consider while you're in here however are the enemies. They are mostly of the rather powerful variety, including the Cyclops, Zaltys and Anubys. The chaos zones may also complicate things a little, but that also makes this palace a good place to farm Soul Seeds in. Anyway, keep going until you reach the point where the tutorial chapter ended and use your ID at the door. Navigate through the rest of the areas, pressing switches to open shutters and nab loot -- Heavy Guard Lv.2 and the Frostbane Choker.

There's a Supply Soldier you can buy items from near the stairs leading up to Snow's chamber. which unfortunately turns out to be frozen shut so go explore the rest of the floor for anything that may help. One of the rooms contains the Prophecy of Aspiration in it. Keep going and you'll soon come to a room (or cell) with Serah's Pendant on the table. Take that back to the frozen door by leaping down the shaft you were directed to. The meeting between old friends soon leads to a fight.

Snow's health will be on the somewhat high side at 700,000, he is weak to fire and resistant to ice so remember to put fire-based spells/attacks in all three of your active schemata. If you check the stagger conditions from his info, one of them says to attack after he uses Chaos Charge and Recharge, so lets follow that advice and throw fire attacks during those times to stagger him. Evade also works remarkably well here, which in turn makes the evade and counter tactic effective. Snow may have a lot of heath but he's nowhere as tough (and annoying) as some of the other bosses

Once all the post-battle events are over, pick the Ghostly Hood off the floor and you'll be free to go wherever you want. Go back and talk to Snow too.Hope at the Edge of Despair trophy unlocked.