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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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[โ€“] Zoboomafoo 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

King's Quest VI, if you wait a few minutes on the strting beach, there's a 5-pixel momentary glint that turns out to be a coin. If you leave the beach beforehand, it's gone forever and the game is in an unwinnable state.

That game was horseshit and I really want to give it another go

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always forget about the coin because I learned my lesson from all the bullshit one screen items from Space Quest IV as well. Also, I'd like to mention the game that was programmed to never let you get the true ending due to legal issues. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream could never be truly beaten for the best ending in the French and German releases. Mainly due to the character Nimdok's storyline being entirely centered around Nazis and the surgical "experiments" that happened. I'm not here to dwell on that, but what I am here to dwell on is that when the game was released, French and German players could not get the true ending due to CyberDreams forgetting to check off the trigger for Nimdok succeeding in his game. So, the game was always in its fail state up until 2013 or so when it was finally released on Steam and GOG. The game was in an unwinnable state for those releases for almost 20 years. No revised version with a fix was ever issued until the worldwide release.