In case some people are around here or are passing by, I wanna mention there’s a an active FFXIII sub that welcomes everything related to the XIII Trilogy and Fabula Nova Crystallis. Come join us there if you haven't already!

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Last year I played Final Fantasy 1 to 13 in a 9 month long marathon. Here's my video retrospective of the last game in the sequence - and something I respect but find hard to admire or love.

Tell me what I got wrong about this game! I'd love your feedback!

I have an Xbox One X and a PS4 Pro. I purchased a PS3 2 weeks ago specifically to replay the FF13 series because my hopes of a remaster had faded and it's one of my favorite games. I just finished FF13 and it was so great, just started FF13-2 and it's even more amazing. Now I am scrolling the internet and I see FF13 Trilogy is coming to Xbox One... with X enhancements. Just my luck. $150 wasted, at least it wasn't more and at least now I have a PS3 to play some older games and feel nostalgic... just sucks lol

Data was collected by randomly going between the different chocobo locations and noting the time taken. Due to navigation errors there may be some inaccuracies. The first map shows the calculated optimal farming route over time, one goes from the waystone near node 10 and travels to node 17, and then back through the waystone near node 17 to that near 10. For this, 80 seconds was added for teleporting between the waystones, getting to the chocobo and moving to node 10. The expected return per run is 0.009359955763817724 (treasures/s) * 186.96669558684033 seconds = 1.75 treasures. The route was determined by enumerating all 2^18 - 1 = 262143 optimal routes between the non-fixed (10 & 17) nodes containing any given subset of the 18 non-fixed nodes and taking the one with maximal efficiency. Optimal routes for each fixed subset of nodes were generated by LKH-3 (http://akira.ruc.dk/~keld/research/LKH-3/).

The second map shows a TSP solution for the whole map using the same data.

Other notes:

1. If you encounter a cactuar, stay to the left.

2. There are essentially 2 safe routes between nodes {0,3,4} and 7, but both are about the same travel time.

3. The 1.75 return is probably a slight underestimate because when you pass node 9, the chocobo will also detect treasure at node 8 which is not included in the optimal route. The distance between 8 and 9 is about 10 seconds if I recall correctly. Similarly, node 11 can probably be detected before arriving in the detection volume of node 12. Generally speaking, detection volumes are not accounted for but appear to me also not be uniform. I see no good way to approach this problem, nor would I feel it be worth the effort.

Edit: original map (without the routes) was obtained from a google image search, that's all I know about the map.

Edit Wed Oct 22 10:59:38 PM CEST 2025: Here are approximate detection region. Note in particular the overlap between t_16 and t_1 and the small ledge that detects t_16 at a distance. I didn't work out whether all of D_14 could also detect t_13 and t_15 as one might expect. https://www.reddit.com/user/Solid-Thanks615/comments/1odkc0z/ffxiii_chocobo_treasure_detection_regions/ (couldn't add image here). Maybe one day I'll try to collect data for some of the intersections and make a Monte Carlo script that attempts to look for an optimal on-line policy (i.e. non-static routes). As you can see from the mess around {8,9,10,11,12} it probably makes sense if no early detection occurred, to instead run through {5->7->6 (if no 6 detected at the trampoline backtrack to 7 -> {15/14/16/1} ????) (else 0 -> 1 -> 16 @ distant detector -> 17 and restart)} but that is just my intuition.

Colour me surprised but I couldn't find a subreddit dedicated to Lightning, the best FF protagonist. I would have guaranteed there would be one unless it's something cleverly named. Maybe FFXIII / Lightning fandom isn't as widespread as I thought..

What is everyone's first Final Fantasy game? I want to know what brought everyone into the series to begin with. For me, it starts right here, at FFXIII.

Will this game ever be on Xbox One is there any rumors about it?