Did I sequence break? on chapter 5

[boxythecat]

Was told by the ghost dog about going to the mines and so I already collected one of the bracelets. Warped to armor town to see what NPCs would tell me there and was told to head to the Metal fish thing. But before that, like between every other sequence in the game, I wanted to explore for extra stuff with my new abilities.

So I happened upon the lost scientist stuck in the lab area underwater. Freed him, and was told to come back if I needed him. So I went all the way up to the other scientists only to have them mark the lost one on the map. I go back to him, he has the exclamation point above his head, but his dialogue is unchanged and nothing happens by talking to him.

I’ve pretty much explored the entire map and I’m pretty certain I’ve exhausted all dialogue from NPCs at this point. The only other thing is missing some squids in the dungeons. Am I stuck? Did doing this one thing out of order mess up flags or triggers or whatever?

[iriyap]

Get the second bracelet in the mines and you should be fine. I did sequence break the scientist rescue too, it doesn't matter.

[Catsim]

You're supposed to get the two bracelets, bring them back to the dog who will put them back together, then you go to the lost scientist who charges it. The second bracelet was in the chest blocked by a quake-movable block a few screens before you got quake. I didn't even talk to the other scientists when I found the lost guy. I just went straight to him.

[boxythecat]

Thanks. I guess I went ahead and assumed there were two mines on each side of the map, and that doing this stuff with the scientists would lead to the other bracelet. Guess I’ll go back and check.

[Washing Machine]

Yeah, I was stuck for a while on this too.

It's kind of weird the game sometimes shoves these markers for you, and in this case it shoves it in your face without reminding you what else it wanted if you skimmed through the dialogue. It should be telling you to go to the dog instead of the scientist.

[Melodia]

The main problem seems to be they were extremely lazy on a lot of the dialog and didn't have enough checks for what you have and haven't done. Hell most of the quests/nuggets will imply you can finish them when you don't have enough yet.