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A warning (not quite a spoiler)
Topic Started: Nov 30 2010, 05:14 PM (1,327 Views)
Kentington
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In a masterpiece of bad game design, Camelot has made most of the game's items and Djinn permanently missable - there's no backtracking to many areas. Just a heads-up that you may want to use this mostly spoiler-free FAQ.

*restarts after four goddamn hours*
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Super Slash


I'll make sure to explore every nook and cranny of every area before leaving it, then.
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Yeah. The Djinn guide's updated with English names, anyone paranoid should probably follow it. I know I am.
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The Phantom Squee
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Sound the horn and call the cry: "How many of them can we make die?"

This has been noted and I will be coming back to this topic one I get the game.
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b l o n d e b o n d
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Wombo Combo

:( this is a sad day.
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LightGreen
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<3 Manaphy.
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I explore EVERYYTHING. Although, I will check it every once in awhile if I feel i'm missing something.
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Jarnakel Magnus
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Nothing to siege here, move along.

WTH CAMELOT?
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Tractatus
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As long as you don't miss TINDER, all is good with the world.
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The Spectral Star

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Nov 30 2010, 08:16 PM
As long as you don't miss TINDER, all is good with the world.
Tinder is unmissable.

On the other hand, BRICK, DEWDROP, GEARS, FURROW and SPOUT are the easiest ones to skip with little warning.
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Crash
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Wheey! I've became a human being!! I am very handsam!

I'm gonna play through missing whatever I end up missing the first time, then go back through it a second time, I think. I'm usually pretty thorough though,
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Remanoir
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I buy the guide book JUST BECAUSE I KNOW I'LL MISS THEM.

I'm following it like the god damn bible.

Damn I'm so easily converted.
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b l o n d e b o n d
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Wombo Combo

A djinn named Gears? (°ロ°)☝ fgsfds
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Jackal
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Come and Take It - Temple Tsundere

It's not bad game design, it's teaching you to not skip over unimportant bits.
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AstraSage
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Dec 1 2010, 12:52 AM
A djinn named Gears? (°ロ°)☝ fgsfds
Venus Djinn: Essentially Lil' "Stop hitting yourself" Mold 's Cousin.


You know, in contrast to the most common complain tending to be pre-endgame easiness, I think the chance of missing Djinn adds a [title= should we expect "Low Djinn Run" challenges in the future?...]layer of difficulty[/title] given they're the core of the class system...
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Gilgamesh
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solbowz Aurarius

Well, nobody's stopping you from getting everything and then just leaving them on standby without summoning.
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Delfeir
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Adachi is not amused.

But Astra, I would call that Fake Difficulty than actual challenging design. It's the lazy way out to try and justify it that way. I wouldn't really call it a huge fail on Camelot's part if the story is progressed as a result, but huge Lost Forevers like that tend to just annoy me.

Either way, warning has been given so if you care for that sense of completion on your first playthrough, look out for that. Thanks for the heads up.
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Crash
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Wheey! I've became a human being!! I am very handsam!

I hear there are two points of no return, and before one of them Karis outright says "we might not be able to come back," so the whole situation is not that bad.
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b l o n d e b o n d
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Wombo Combo

Glad to see they only throw you under the bus's daily route. You'd have to wait for the bus to get actually run over.
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AstraSage
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The Spectral Star

Actually, Crash, there are three of those if you include the first meeting with Blados...

The other blockades has personal bonus points for having two of my most loved dungeons close to them, by the way:
Spoiler: click to toggle
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LSunnyC
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Inability to back-track and visit previous areas is a stake in my heart that makes me cry and cry Q_Q

Don't have the game yet, but being unable to backtrack makes me so sad. ;_;
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