There are numerous changes to the original areas in the five years prior to the visit of Serah, Mog, and Noel, just as there are changes in the hundreds of years after. The Excavation Site is the same as the Forgotten Commons from Final Fantasy XIII, but in Final Fantasy XIII-2 the south-eastern way has been "locked" by a wall, Atlas's hand protrudes from a deep gorge where the ruins of a fountain once lay, and there is a new tunnel in the north-eastern corner of the Excavation Site.