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What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending? (leminal.space)
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The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don't perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress to a point it made me wonder none the less.

I understand BG3 might be a hard lock because the game abruptly comes to a close I am not going to get into the semantics. The only other soft locks I can think of are with Pokemon.

Shout out to the fan translation of Mizzurna Falls. An article on the ROMHacking.net website can be found here.

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[–] Aztechnology 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FF12 had some bullshit chest near the beginning of the game.. If you opened it you lost the ability to 100% the game and get the Zodiac spear ( reportedly some ability to get one in a very tedious grunts fashion but it's been ages)

Basically the straw that broke the camel's back for me with ff.. The games story and combat was already a let down after they dropped the turn based combat like all of them ff1-ff10

But yeah generally I dislike many soft lock mechanics or illogical things that punish you for just playing the game.. Oftentimes these were put in games just to sell strategy guides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't played 2 or 3, but at the very least FF4 isn't turn based. Its pseudo-realtime.

[–] Aztechnology 3 points 1 year ago

I remember ff4 being turn based or at least the same menu maybe active time where if your too slow npcs will act but it's been awhile