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A very fundamental video game trope, a sidequest (or optional quest, or side mission, etc.) is any part of a video game that is not required to complete the game. Sidequests come in a variety of forms, and completing sidequests generally brings reward to the player such as additional equipment or abilities, areas to explore, supplemental plot related details, or fun unlockables.

 

 

Some side quests such as the [[Bonus Dungeon]] and [[Bonus Boss]] may provide challenges more difficult than any content available through the main storyline. This allows more casual players to still complete the game and see the plot resolved, while also giving gamers seeking an additional challenge something to go after.

* This idea has unfortunately spread to the PSP game ''[[Crisis Core (Video Game)|Crisis Core]]''. There are 300 missions and just the very first one is required to continue with your game. What's worse is that there are only eight or nine "dungeons" the missions take place in with varying parts of them blocked off and all of them boil down to "find all enemies visible on the map and kill them", meaning the gameplay pretty much requires you do to the same thing over and over and OVER again...

* ''[[The Last Remnant]]'' has a wide variety of sidequests, which is the main way to unlock map locations and the ability to hire some powerful people. There's also Guild Tasks which are similar in function but aren't classed as quests.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''

** ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', has many sidequests, one example of which is killing of [[Bounty Hunter|"marks"]].

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