Just beat FF XIII -2 the other day

[brendude13]

cloud1161 said:

brendude13 said:

AndrewWK said:
I played FF XIII and I really liked and Lighting was one of my favorite females Characters ever. Now I am thinking about to get XIII-2. I played the the XIII-2 and liked the battle system but the character Sarah however was not really charismatic. How long does it take to beat this game?

Serah will grow on you, she is one of the best things about FFXIII-2's story.

It took me 35 hours, I'm closing in on the platinum and I'm currently at 80 hours now.

Wow, really 80 hours to platinum?  I have about 120 of the fragments in only 35 hours, but then again I used FAQs for some of the bull shit fragments.   Namely the Brain Blast and Captain Cryptic because to me that seems like a waste of time trying to guess all those answers.  I also haven't done some of the more time consuming quests like the 10,000 coins or whatever it is.  

I've spent a lot of time doing useless crap. Collecting crystals, grinding, making money, forming the perfect team, chocobo racing, raising a chocobo team. I'm at 140 fragments now and the remaining 20 will be pretty easy though.