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Are there any missable items/events etc I should know about? Or tips in general

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IIRC it's mostly bestiary entries. I remember grinding for rare summon drops, but I'm not sure if any are actually missable. Just really annoyingly rare.

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Enjoy Dark Knight Cecil.

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I've played through it at least thirty times. It's pretty straightforward. There are a few optional areas but they aren't hidden. Which version are you playing?

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RenescoStCewl posted...

I've played through it at least thirty times. It's pretty straightforward. There are a few optional areas but they aren't hidden. Which version are you playing?

psp complete collection

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discodancer77 posted...

psp complete collection

That's supposed to be the best version. It's also the only version I haven't played.

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RenescoStCewl posted...

That's supposed to be the best version. It's also the only version I haven't played.

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AFAIK Pink Tail at the end of the game is the only "missable" item but the monster who drops it is incredibly rare so I'm not sure its even worth it. If there's a postgame dungeon in the PSP collection, maybe?

the game is very linear but doesn't really have any significant missables

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Autocraticus posted...

AFAIK Pink Tail at the end of the game is the only "missable" item but the monster who drops it is incredibly rare so I'm not sure its even worth it. If there's a postgame dungeon in the PSP collection, maybe?

I don't think the postgame dungeons are strictly missable but I know with the character specific dungeons, with Kain's if you go back in a second time and face Dark Kain with Abel's Lance equipped, if the special effect activates and the Tornado kills him before he transforms, you'll permanently lock yourself out of the dungeon with a glitch

At the very least, it was a glitch in the GBA version and I don't know if they fixed it in the PSP collection.

Strider102 posted...

Enjoy Dark Knight Cecil.

This so hard.

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Autocraticus posted...

AFAIK Pink Tail at the end of the game is the only "missable" item but the monster who drops it is incredibly rare so I'm not sure its even worth it. If there's a postgame dungeon in the PSP collection, maybe?

It's not missable you can literally farm 5 of them if you want. It's just the encounter has a 1/68 chance of even appearing and the tail has a 1/256 chance of dropping though there's 5 of them so you get 5 1/256 chances.

If you have a large stock of siren / alarm / whatever It's called these days you can guarantee the 1/68 bit and only have to deal with the 1/256 odds which is nice. If you have 99 of them it's likely you can get one for everyone in your party.

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discodancer77 posted...

psp complete collection

Since you mentioned this, you should also play FF4:TAY and THAT game has a LOT of missable items. These are the big ones that matter.

1. All the challenge dungeon stuff. (Nearly impossible to miss but you can still miss it)
2. Small tails (most important missable, FOLLOW A GUIDE)
3. Many summons. Matter of fact there's only a few that you can't miss. Chocobo is the easiest one to miss. Find it on a remote island during the first part of The Crystals chapter. During the same chapter you'll fight other summons periodically. Make sure not to kill any of them. They surrender at low health but if you kill them they're gone forever. And make sure to get the 4 dropped summons in Rydia's chapter (goblin, mindflayer, cockatrice, bomb) they are not able to be found later.
4. You can miss several characters. Proceed along the next 3 spoilers with caution.
5. calca and brina from Rydia's tale can be missed. You need a few items from the cave at the end before you beat the final fight of that chapter to keep them. They kinda suck though so no big deal.
6. all of the eblan 4 ninjas can be killed on their solo missions. Once they reunite with Edge you're in the clear.
7. MAJOR SPOILER man in black can die during the fight with the Dark knight unless your party includes Cecil, Man in black, Rosa, and Ceodore. This is the only way to keep him alive.
8. as soon as hooded man joins your party, kill him and just leave him dead the whole game. Eventually you'll reach a point where Hooded man does a solo fight. His stat progression changes after this fight but his level does not so you lose quite a lot of stats by leveling him up first. Note that the fight at minimum level is kinda hard and you'll need to do things like use the defend command lmao. You can level him up normally after that.
9. As soon as you start the lunarians' chapter, it will take you into a battle. Go to the item menu and unequip your sword.
10. As soon as you get control of Cecil for the first time, unequip all his shit (grind him to max level while he's alone first otherwise you'll find running around with naked Cecil is impossible). The sword can't be used by anyone but Cecil however Ceodore can use his armor.
11. I think there are some missable steals. Check an item guide.

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Are small tails some sort of collectible

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discodancer77 posted...

Are small tails some sort of collectible

You trade them in at the end of the game and it's the only way to get some other things like the rainbow tail which you can trade for the ring that lets you deal more than 9999 damage.

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