Well that's forty-eight down...

After a long string of mid-boss battles in a weird abstract space, I finally made it to the final boss fight of the game, and of course it was in 3 stages. In between the fights the big bad kept trying to convince Fang and Vanille to turn into a giant monster and destroy the world, but they wouldn't give up hope and finally the party beat down the bad guy.

Unfortunately the bad guy was also supporting the whole planet, so once he's dead all the lights go out and the world starts free falling to the planet below it. Vanille and Fang get separated from the others and then chose to turn into the giant monster. They then fly off to the bottom of the falling word and merge with it as a giant crystal beaning, forming a giant pillar that slows and supports the planet before it crashes (the shape in the logo). The rest of the art briefly turn to crystal but then return human, along with Serah and Sazh's son, and their brands are gone. Fang and Vanille remain as crystal though, at least until Final Fantasy XIII 2...

There's an option after then end credits to go back to the last checkpoint and level u even further, but after 60 and a half hours I think I'm done with this for now. Tomorrow it's on to Little Big Planet on the PS3!