04B: I wanna be purged

04B: I wanna be purged

Boarding the Train

When you reach the bottom of the rubble pile ahead you get a CS in which you appear to be encountering a dead end.  Hope and Lightning have a conversation in which she explains the division of authority between her former military bosses and PSICOMN.  They talk about the purge and we get a CS within the CS of the boarding of the train.

This is actually pretty cool in that we get to see Sazh and Lightning meeting for the first time, and we have a better understanding of why things went the way that they did on the train.  Hope seems stunned that Lightning cared so much for Serah that she got on the train willingly, and makes a flip comment, and then Lightning leaves.

Back to Sazh and Van - and Sazh's chocobo!  Van takes the lead here and starts climbing over the rubble, at which point we get a mini-tutorial on Sazh's new job - Synergist.   There is a save point here, and now is a good time to apply any CP you have not applied before you save!  If you have been following this walkthrough you should have more than enough CP to cap off both of Sazh's jobs to their Stage 2 levels, and Van's too, with a few hundred CP left over!

Ahead of you through the tunnel is a Pulsework Soldier  fighting three drones - but hey, they are ALL your enemy, so go help them get dead!  Sort of interesting that these guys are fighting each other...  I don't know whether it is just that these are the weaker of the team or what, but that Soldier took a lot of killing!   But he also gave decent CP so it all evens out in the end.

Your path is blocked here - so use the machine to move the blockage and then go play with the puppies on the other side!  There is another Soldier here already playing with the puppies so I suggest concentrating on him first and then switch your deck to have Van healing as you take out the puppies.  If you capped your skills this should be a relatively easy fight.

The next fight is a mix of puppies and drones versus a Soldier - and in this one I would concentrate first on the puppies then on the Soldier and finally the drones.  For all the work you put in the 91CP for this fight does not seem like a lot to me, but there you have it.  After the fight be sure to grab the Black Belt from the Treasure Sphere.

Go through the tunnel and use the control panel to clear the rubble, and then you will engage a trio of puppies fighting a pair of Soldiers.  I chose to concentrate on the puppies and then the Soldiers, considering that there were more of them, and that left them damaging the Soldiers longer.   Once the puppies are down to two and weakened, switch to the Soldiers to make it an easier and faster fight.