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• Casting Gag:
  • The voice actress for Mog in both Japanese and English (Sumire Morohoshi and Ariel Winter, respectively) shares the voice for characters in other Square Enix works: Marlene Wallace and young Kairi, who are also cute, small characters.
  • On a related note, Ariel Winter also voices Gretchen from Phineas and Ferb. It would have made things if Mog and Hope interacted with each other.
  • Captain Cryptic is voiced by Dave Wittenberg (aka, Kefka Palazzo) in the English version, which makes his quiz question regarding Terra Branford extremely hilarious with that knowledge.
• Downloadable Content
  • Costumes:
  • Serah's Costumes:
    • Summoner's Garb◊
    • Beachwear◊
    • Style and Steel◊
    • N7 Armor
    • White Mage Attire
  • Noel's Costumes:
    • Battle Attire◊
    • Spacetime Guardian◊
    • Ezio Auditore◊ (circa Revelations)
    • N7 Armor
    • Black Mage Attire
  • Mog's Costumes:
    • A Wonderous Wardrobe
  • Weapons: (Can be obtained from Chocolina's shop for 0 gill once purchased. Improved versions of these weapons become available throughout the game once you buy them.)
  • Serah's Weapons:
    • Seraphic Wing◊ - Heals Serah as it deals damage to enemies.
    • Genji Bow◊ - Increases ATB gauge recharge rate.
    • Azrael◊ (exclusive to Xbox 360 version) - Increases chain bonuses.
  • Noel's Weapons:
    • Calamity Blade◊ - Increases ATB gauge recharge rate.
    • Muramasa◊ - Boosts chain bonus.
  • '''Colosseum Battles''' (Bosses here can be recruited as Feral Link monsters when beaten):
    • Omega (Role: Commando, Feral Link: Wave Canon)
    • Lightning (Role: Ravager, Feral Link: Army of One) and Lt. Amodar (Role: Commando, Feral Link: Iron Bear Claw)
    • Jihl Nabaat (Role: Saboteur, Feral Link: Sadistic Surge)
    • Ultros (Role: Synergist, Feral Link: Octopus Ink) and Typhon (Role: Commando, Feral Link: Snort)
    • PuPu (Role: Medic, Feral Link: Items Please!)
    • Gilgamesh (Role: Commando, Feral Link: Divider)
    • Nabaat, Ultros & Gilgamesh, once bought, will have a chance to say "Final Fantasy XIII-2; the story so far," along with everyone else.
  • Additional story content:
    • "Heads or Tails" (Sazh's story) — Explains Sazh's sudden disappearance and his attempt in finding Dajh through the power of fortune. Adds Sazh (Role: Synergest, Feral Link: Cold Blood) as a party member when cleared. Also unlocks two new Serendipity card minigames, Chrono Bind and Serendipity Poker.
    • "Snow: Perpetual Battlefield" (Snow's story)
    • "Requiem of the Goddess" (Lightning's story) — Story segment shown through Lightning's point of view as she struggles against Caius. Adds Valkyrie Lightning (Role: Commando, Feral Link: Legion of One) as a party member when the battle is cleared with five stars.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Noel is the son of Goofy! And in Japanese he's Edge.
    • He's also the last thing you never see.
    • He's also a Nord. It was very obvious since the game came out a month after Skyrim.
    • He is also a rival racer-turned evil following a near-fatal crash.
  • Kain's gotta get rid of the contradictions in the timeline. He also liked to box at one point, but still has the same little sister hang up. Oh, and he's Dr. Tenma.
  • Also, Captain Cryptic is Kefka Palazzo, which makes a certain quiz question of his extremely hilarious knowing that.
  • John DiMaggio reprising his role as Gilgamesh? OUTRAGEOUS!
  • The "additional voices" section reads as practically a "who's who" of every major active voice actor out there that isn't already part of the main vocal cast, including pretty much the entire English cast of the playable characters of Eternal Sonata and many who had major roles in previous Final Fantasy' titles, such as Hedy Burress.
• The Boss Battle theme (in which Lightning fights off against Chaos Bahamut while riding Odin in Gestalt Mode) is the same as the Main Battle theme ("Blinded by Light") from Final Fantasy XIII, except remixed slightly differently. Their introductions, however, start off exactly the same way.
• What Could Have Been: Typhon was slated to be a War God in Final Fantasy Type-0 but left out, presumably to be used for this game.
  • Final Fantasy XIII-2 was originally supposed to tie-in with Type-0 being set 900 years into the future still with Valhalla being in the year 999 (the same year Type-0 is set in) but the idea was cut. The idea of humanity being reduced to a single village stuck in a Time Crash was retained for Lightning Returns.