13D: The New Dawn

13D: The New Dawn

The first thing you will note is the extended CS that happens after Lightning utters her famous line "We've come to save Cocoon, right?"   This CS is a bit confusing, since it suggests that your party gets separated - and then we see the world sort of coming apart....  Yeah, a bit on the confusing side, but I guess this is supposed to represent the ending of the story mode.  Have to remind myself that the end of the story mode has nothing to do with wrapping up the outstanding tasks.

So - first congratulations on completing the story mode!  While the game is not finished with respect to  all of the content, you have still reached a significant milestone - I hope you will not eject the disc and say "Well I am done with that!"  No, don't do that because there is more to do still, starting with capping off our jobs and completing the Stone Missions!  First though we need to sit through the final CS's and the credits.

Why should we sit through the credits you ask?  Well, trust me when I say it is not so that you can see all the names of the people who made the game!  No, the reason we should sit through them is because we have to in order to unlock the final story-mode Trophies/Achievements!  Our survey says... Good reason!

The CS was full of happy endings - a most excellent finish for this long adventure!  The crystal lattices seem to be coming apart - also excellent!  The lengthy closing credits... Not so excellent, but you have to figure that the folks who made this should be able to ring their own bell, and besides, at least it is not like Batman: Arkham Asylum where they forced you to play thorough a long list of credits at the start and then again at the end!

Once the credits end you get the "The End" screen and the last Instrument Trophy/Achievement pops (for a whopping 95 GP)!  You are prompted to save your game - and you should definitely do that.  Next the game forces you to return to the main menu screen, so do that, and then hit Load Game and select the save that you just made, and you will be returned to the Edenhall!

Now would be a good time to use the CP that we have banked, right?

If you did this logically you should have capped off to level 5 one of each job in the party, unlocking the six Trophies/Achievements associated with that.  Now it is time to backtrack to the teleport portals and return to Gran Pulse. 

Once you are back in Gran Pulse find your favorite level grinding spot, equip the Egg and any Catalogs you think will be useful to you, throw on a CD, a movie, or an audio book, grab your favorite beverage and a snack, and start grinding CP!  After you completely cap off all of the jobs on all of your party members, go to the next section!