Side Quests & Optional Content
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster offers a wealth of side quests and optional content that expands gameplay beyond the main story. These activities provide unique rewards, deepen the lore, and challenge players with additional objectives. Engaging with these can significantly enhance your overall experience and character progression.
Final Fantasy X-2 Specific Optional Content
- Creature Creator: Recruit and battle with various creatures.
- Blitzball: Participate in the popular underwater sport.
- Chocobo Raising: Breed and train Chocobos for various benefits.
- Excavation Minigame: Dig for treasures and items in locations like Bikanel Island.
- Last Mission: An additional scenario available in the International and HD versions.
- Dark Aeons: Powerful optional bosses in Final Fantasy X, based on the International and PAL releases.
- Creature Create (INT/HD Only): An expanded system for creature management.
Specific Side Quest Details
- Bikanel Island: When you first arrive, follow Rikku until a scene occurs. You will wake up in the Excavation Camp and receive an Al Bhed Primer. Talk to everyone, then Nhadala, and show her the letter to trigger a mission. Talk to the pilot and choose the Western Expanse. Learn digging basics, then find the yellow X and press X to dig. You have one minute to find it and return to the hover to pass the mission.
- O'aka's Debt: In Final Fantasy X-2, O'aka has a debt of 100,000 gil that must be paid by the end of Chapter 3 to avoid missing a mission and a dressphere. Selling unused equipment and buying from him, or stealing Gil from bosses, helps clear this debt.
- Farplane:
- Defeat Vegnagun and the Final Boss.
- Paine's Sphere is given after Paine and Gippal reunite.
- Node A, B, and C all have a rare drop chance for Hero Drink (can be multiplied by 8 with Double Items on three characters for a max of 24).
- Hero Drink can be stolen from the Final Boss (only times to get this item).
- Megalixir and two Mega Phoenixes can be found in the final area.
- Press X to hear whistling in the Farplane Abyss.
- Answer The Fayth "Yes!" to view the Perfect Ending.
- Bevelle/Mushroom Rock Road:
- Mission Complete! (Defeat Lucil And The Youth League Warriors)
- Episode Complete!
- At Youth League Headquarters, Observation Deck, speak to Lucil to receive "Nooj's Sphere".
- Head back to the airship and watch Sphere "Deathseeker".
- Speak with Maroda at the Temple Entrance.
- Inside Via Infinito, obtain Crimson Sphere 6 at Cloister 0 and Crimson Sphere 8 at Cloister 20.
- Board the airship and watch "Crimson Record 6" and "Crimson Record 8".
- After obtaining all Crimson Spheres, open the sealed door in the Den of Woe. Defeat the bosses. Episode Complete!
- Defeat Trema in Cloister ∞. Episode Complete!