What are the consequences about missing a few sidequests?

[dynastystar]

I missed a couple of sidequests and I'm already in Ruan, so I don't wanna start over(I didn't know the Black Book you get in the Thieves' hideout was for, and one other quest), what are the consequences of missing a few sidequests? like will I get the "Good Ending" if I get ALL the Sidequests? I also didn't realize there was a sidequest for the Amberl Tower(I didn't see it on the bulletin board for some reason?)

[Cold_Reverie]

No worries, you haven't missed out on getting a "Good Ending". You don't really miss out on anything substantial or necessary by missing a few side-quests. Once you beat the game you will be asked to create a Clear Save file. A Clear Save can be carried over to the sequel, Trails in the Sky SC, where doing certain side-quests may cause certain NPCs to remember you. And depending on what your final Bracer Rank is when you beat the game, you may net some extra items at the start of the next game.

Some optional quests are hidden and are known as ‘hidden quests’. These quests will not show up on the board and must be found by exploring and talking to NPCs. The side-quests in this game are more about rewarding you with more lore and a deeper understanding of the world, but it doesn not really affect the main story of the game in any important way.

[Berahlen]

You miss a few largely non-unique rewards like quartz and mira. If you miss too many, you won't get all the bracer rank rewards -- some of the pieces like Gladiator are really good and can't be found anywhere else, but nothing's essential unless you're a crazy person playing on Nightmare.

IIRC there actually are two hidden changes to the ending at the extreme ends of the bracer rank, but they're both minor and neither substantially affect the story. If you get an extremely high bracer rank someone mentions it during the epilogue. If you basically go out of your way to ignore all sidequests and fail all decisions, you miss a phase of the final boss -- but it's not very likely you'll see it without following a guide just to know all the wrong stuff to do :P

Only other thing is what ^ said -- if you get max bracer points, you get some early starting goodies at the beginning of the second game. Again, nothing unique or essential unless you're playing a very high difficulty.

[dynastystar]

Will I be able to get max bracer level if I missed a few? I'm currently on chapter 2 and I've got bracer rank 5.

[Berahlen]

There should be pretty generous slip room to at least get the top level rewards. I think if you're playing a perfect game you actually get them pretty early into the final chapter, which lets you abuse the crap out of them during some of the buildup there.

The starting goodies in SC are only perfect score though. But again, it's nothing big. Like, a decent lowbie accessory, a quartz you can make later on, and some tear balms.

[Cold_Reverie]

You need 290 BP for max Bracer Rank. If you do every side-quest, including hidden ones, and choose every answer that earns you BP, you can get 170 BP from the start of Chapter 3 until the end of the game. Since you need 110 BP to reach Bracer Rank 5, you would need to have 120 BP at least before finishing Chapter 2 to be able to get max Bracer Rank.

In case you don't know, by the way, this game has autosaves. The autosaves can be found on Page-"0" exactly on page back from page-1. There are 10 files that will autosaves everytime you enter a new screen or finish a battle.

If you are looking to get max Bracer Rank, I'd recoommend this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=294731475

Well, in any case, good luck!

[dynastystar]

Originally posted by Waypoint:

There should be pretty generous slip room to at least get the top level rewards. I think if you're playing a perfect game you actually get them pretty early into the final chapter, which lets you abuse the crap out of them during some of the buildup there.

The starting goodies in SC are only perfect score though. But again, it's nothing big. Like, a decent lowbie accessory, a quartz you can make later on, and some tear balms.

damn :( I would've liked those starting goodies :(

[dynastystar]

btw, I just saw how much BP I have(just finished a quest), I have 130 now.

[Hagen2900]

Starting items in SC are tiered. You will get most of them with junior bracer rank 1.

[Berahlen]

Unless you play Nightmare, in which case you're basically hosed :P

As much as I enjoyed FC Nightmare I REALLY don't recommend SC Nightmare. It's okay later on but the early parts are just way too horsecrap.

[Hagen2900]

I used to think that too. But it turns out you don't need Luck to complete the prologue.

[Berahlen]

I mean you can always grind or hope for a string of misses, but the first boss is stupidly fast and hits harder than you heal. He's an RNG crapstorm even with Earth Guard -- without sounds like a fantastic way to self-induce baldness.

[Hagen2900]

If you are talking about Kurt you can substitute Sylphen Guard and La Tear. You are relying on chance to some degree but usually you should win fist try.

[Hagen2900]

The prologue boss incarnations on Hard and Nightmare are like night and day.

[Berahlen]

In that he is now on fire, sets YOU on fire, and cackles madly the whole time? Yes, he is much brighter and merrier. The three fights before him are not much less "merry" either.

[Hugoos]

I remember when I first played this I also missed like one side quest in the 2nd chapter. This made me just follow a 100% walkthrough from that point on and I easily got the top Bracer rank. Didn't get the special 100% BP items in SC, but it turned out to not matter a lot.

I slowly ended up going from "Just do the main quest + side quests from the board" in FC to " I guess I'll do everything to get 100% but nothing more" in SC to finally "Talk to all the npcs every single time the story progresses until they don't have new dialogue anymore!" towards the end of SC and Cold Steel, and even in the final case you can still miss stuff without a walkthrough. Makes me a bit paranoid sometimes, having to check over if I really did get all the stuff. :)