Recruit the heroes of FINAL FANTASY XIII and XIII-2 as monster allies for Serah and Noel's Paradigm Pack.
28 hero crystals: Lightning (in her FFXIII-2 armour), Caius and Snow in all six roles; Hope (adult) and Sazh in five (no Commando). Each has their own model, moves and Feral Link.
Buy them from Chocolina under Items, 1,000 gil each, from the start of the game. Each crystal is named after its hero and role, e.g. Lightning (Medic).
Every hero grows to level 99 with stats above the strongest monsters, so they stay useful after the story.
No recruitable monster is replaced, and enemy drops are untouched, so monster collection is unaffected. No DLC needed.
Every hero has a portrait. Caius's is cut from his story scene in your own game.
Notes
Hope, Snow and Sazh fight with their casting motions, because their original weapon animations don't land hits for an ally. Hope and Sazh have no Commando crystal for the same reason.
Caius and Sazh brace with their own stances as Sentinels (they have no guard animation).
The mod changes your own game data when you press Play (nothing from the game is shipped) and keeps backups, so it can be undone.
Single player. Design by jjcostas97; patcher code GPL-3.0 (filelist encryption and text tools ported from Surihix's WhiteBinTools and ZTRtool).
