How to handle sidequests

[Magus]

I'm coming back to this game after a very long time and I'm struggling. I'm in Chapter 5 on normal and I feel pretty underpowered and like I'm missing a lot of medals based on other playthroughs I've seen. I explore pretty thoroughly so I feel like it has to be because of incomplete sidequests. My issue with sidequests though is that the in-game log basically gives you no info on how to complete most of them. Unless I stop what I'm doing and go complete them right away I often get confused where to go next partway through. Am I just expected to have a wiki open and go down the list or am I missing in game hints?

[Songbird]

Not sure what you mean? All the info is either in the quest description or given to you when you talk to the quest giver. The game definitely doesn't require a guide to complete its quests.

There are some quests that ask you to look for things in a general area, like along a specific stretch of road that's two or three screens long, which are a little more open-ended, but there are tricks to these like paying attention to which parts of the area you can access and haven't been to--many of these quests are related to getting a new traversal ability that allows you to access an area you couldn't originally reach.

There are a few quests that are game-spanning, like getting all the lore books or all the bad books, which don't give you specific hints. The bad books are AFAIK the only one that is unhinted; the lore books have the fortune teller to help you out. But there are only three bad books, and they're pretty easy to find.

[Nibbie]

Do you have any examples of quests you are having trouble with?

[Magus]

Originally posted by Nibbie:

Do you have any examples of quests you are having trouble with?

Like the quest "Want to Relive Memories" . The explanation in the journal doesn't tell me where he is or where he wants to go. Yes I could track down the NPCs for most of these but the issue is that it's been so long I don't remember where most of them, like the mayor here, are.