That One Sidequest: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Fighting Game]] ==

** ''Brawl'' does appear to have an example of [[That One Sidequest]] of its own: unlocking the Galleom Tank trophy requires completing [[Boss Rush]] mode on Intense.

*** Thankfully, for those who only care about getting all the trophies, the game lets you claim up to five of the accomplishments without actually earning them.

* Nearly ''every'' timed mission in ''[[Sonic Rush Series|Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' requires near-perfect timing. There is almost no margin for error, lest you fall short of the arbitarily short time limit.

** Rush's [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Sonic Colors]]'' DS has Mission 2 in Sweet Mountain where you have to rescue 25 Wisps. It isn't that hard if all you're trying to do is pass it or collect it's red rings however it becomes a total nightmare when trying to S rank the mission, the part that especially makes it hard is when you reach the robot that tosses you up in the air where you have to dodge the balloon bombs to enter its mouth. You move at a very slow pace during that part which wastes your time and since it's a rescue Wisps mission there are no extra time capsules to earn to give you extra time on the missions countdown timer. By the time you're past the robot part you probably won't have enough time left to earn an S rank during this mission.

 

 

** Two words: Emerald Weapon.

*** Two more words: Ruby Weapon.

*** [[Guide Dang It]] meets [[Luck-Based Mission]] with a side of [[Squick]]. And if you sold your Chocobo Lure materia, forget it.

** Getting all the Enemy Skills is pretty difficult. [[Unwinnable|One of them won't get all of them]] because only bosses use Trine and you get it after you kill the last boss that uses it ([[Guide Dang It|unless you wait to complete the Pagoda sidequest until after you get the last Enemy Skill Materia]]). You can only get Pandora's Box once. Chocobuckle is even worse, because if you're too strong, or you think ''I've got KOR now so why don't I just sell Chocobo Lure?'', you won't get it. And a spell actually has to ''hit'' and you survive it; Manipulate is pretty much the only way this will happen with some spells, and some have instant death.

** Most of Jiminy's requirements are hard, but not insane, as long as you either take the time to plan things out, or know the secrets. But some (like the poster duty minigame mentioned above) is impossible unless you've leveled up two of your forms to their max, others all but require you to have Fenrir, an [[Infinity+1 Sword]] gained by defeating Sephiroth (yes, that Sephiroth), winning tournaments with a certain number of points that require leveling up all of your forms and summons to their max (which takes a few hours of level grinding) just to enter, and winning a 50 round tournament with battle level 99 (the highest level in the game) with an insane point requirement... It can get to the point where you just don't want to go to Olympus Collusseum ever again.

** Until you realise that to get the secret ending, you can also just finish the game in Hard Mode, which is the mode you should have played from the beginning, because it provides actual challenge during the story...

* ''[[Phantasy Star IV]]'' has the dog quest, where you have to find a dog, which randomly pops up in one of five cities. If you don't have a specific item in your inventory, it runs away, and you have to search the other four cities. The only way to get said item is to find the hidden shop that has virtually no hints to where it is.

* In later ''[[Wild Arms]]'' games, to get [[Hundred-Percent Completion]] you have to also fight the Black Box; a [[Bonus Boss]] who is only available if you've ''opened every single treasure chest in the game.''

* Getting the [[Game Breaker|Vandaler class]] in [[Vandal Hearts]]. It's an [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]] for your main character that gives him every learnable spell, autoblock on all frontal and side attacks, an absurdly high block rate for back attacks and sky high stats and unique equipment that's better than anything in the game. You just have to find each of the six Prisms, one in each chapter, in battles that aren't repeatable. Some of the Prisms just require you to examine a strange looking tile, some require you to talk to a certain person in a tavern, complete a secret objective in a battle and then talk to the person again, despite them not actually telling you the objective. One requires you to find and not sell three unique, valuable items in previous chapters that are only found by examining out of the way tiles in intense fights. And after that, each one puts you into a special challenge battle in which you not only have to defeat all the enemies, but make sure to get the special item in a difficult to get to chest. One such battle requires you to actively place your units not to kill enemies with counterattacks and navigate a difficult block pushing puzzle in which one wrong move makes it all impossible. Do all this, you get to use the Vandaler class for the past few battles.

** The easiest Prisms to find require you to send a unit to a counter intuitive location on the off-chance that funny looking tile isn't just a quirk of some mapper's choice and is one of the pre-designated special item location.