PMD_E1337Pete

It's not only about the gun. It's mostly about not having to do a professional run on NG. Even if you never use the hand cannon, getting it from Mercenaries removes the hardest part of the platinum.

Pinning on the map makes the waypoint show up on your compass. Make sure your compass is showing with R3 (it likes to hide itself).

This is the best thing to come out of these problems. 😄

The only time I had full on black screen with fights that didn’t load was if I ended a fight with magic (since some people were saying that would work). But I had in-game saved before that in case something like that happened. Ultimately between rewinds and in-game saves, I never kept a magic use “on record”, just seemed to always cause problems.

I have the platinum. It's really weird, I expected to have to grind but ultimately never did. I got additions maxed out way before I usually do just from playing normally. I guess without the dragoon magic to help kill bosses, they all got a lot more uses. Final boss didn't know what hit him. Second-to-last boss though can soft-lock the game when HE does magic so you have to keep rewinding until he does something else. It's a real fun time...

You need to have 7000G at one time.

Yikes, thanks for the heads up.

While the game isn't unplayable, magic is a pretty large combat mechanic. Without magic, it almost completely invalidates turning into a dragoon. You can rewind, but I had a scenario where Haschel couldn't use any of his magic OR his dragoon addition without soft locking the game (first time it happened on a dragoon addition for me). You can beat the game without turning into a dragoon but turning into a dragoon is fun when it works as expected. It's not high hopes or blowing it out of proportion to say you want the game to be functional. Especially for an issue that would have been noticeable on play testing through a single playthrough. "It's just emulation" flies for me when it's like the graphical hiccups this version is seeing, not for something like this. While I'm fine playing through the game without using dragoon form at all, I also wouldn't recommend this port to anybody who's playing it for the first time until it's patched.

What magic have you been able to perform without the softlock (because you said not Dart). I've tried: Explosion (Dart) Wing Blaster (Lavitz) Astral Drain (Rose) Atomic Mind (Haschel) And then I just stopped trying because all 4 of those softlocked me.

Just in case anyone is looking to get all of the "YES"s and "NO"s, here's a dialog tree for every scene in the game (and noted where there are no dialog choices). These trophies can be a bit of a pain because some "NO"s are behind a "YES" and some "YES"s are behind "NO"s. Keep in mind at time of writing that "Jahn Teigen" is confirmed glitched by the devs and won't unlock as expected. Lv01 - Broccoli Castle - No choices Lv02 - Autumn Fields - "Can you go an take care of that floating creature by my house so I can go home?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "Literally." YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "LITERALLY." YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv03 - Winter Woods Q1 - "Have you saved the kingdom yet?" YES - Scene continues NO - Scene continues Q2 - "Whaddaya say, champ." YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv04 - Haunted Mansion - No choices Lv05 - Mansion Dungeon - "OK, ARE YOU READY FOR THE HINT?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "NOW, ARE YOU READY FOR THE HINT?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - Repeat question until player responds with YES Lv06 - Count Arelle - "That IS why you're here, isn't it?" YES - "Are you messing with me?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "Are you pulling my leg?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "Are you just yanking my chain?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv07 - Jammin' Jungle - "You doing good?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv08 - Fruitopia Q1 - "Has your day been good so far?" YES - Scene continues NO - Scene continues Q2 - "Don't you agree?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv09 - Gingerbread House - No choices Lv10 - Candy Factory - No choices Lv11 - Candy Mama Scene 1 - The Defence Systems - No choices Scene 2 - The Employee of the Month - No choices Lv12 - Candy Lane - No scenes Lv13 - Daddy Elevator - "ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS??" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv14 - Daddy Club - "Hey, have you watched Peter Jackson's masterpiece film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings?" YES - "Did you watch the extended editions?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv15 - King Sugar Daddy - "Did you get all that?" (Response order is swapped) NO - "Did you get all that?" again (Response order is swapped) NO - End of Dialog Tree YES - End of Dialog Tree YES - End of Dialog Tree Lv16 - Cloud Highway - "Do you... love me?" YES - "Do you think I'm... beautiful?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv17 - Cauliflower Kingdom - "CAN YOU HEAR ME FROM THERE?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv18 - Cauliflower Tower - "If I show you the way, do you p-p-promise not to hurt me?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - "...right?" YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv19 - K-FLOW - No choices Lv20 - K-FLOW Official Fan Club Scene 1 - The Servant - No choices Scene 2 - The Brat - No choices Lv21 - Volcano Valley - No choices Lv22 - Chili Inc - "PASSWORD." YES - End of Dialog Tree NO - Repeat question until player responds with YES Lv23 - Prison Escape - "Doesn't that just sound amazing?" (NO is only option) NO - "Surely that will be enough to satiate your voracious appetite?" (NO is only option) NO - "So, what do you say?" (NO is only option) NO - End of Dialog Tree Lv24 - Power Peppers Scene 1 - The Peppers - No choices Scene 2 - The 180 - No choices Lv25 - Mrs Chili Scene 1 - The Face of Evil - No choices Scene 2 - The Honorary Member - No choices

Yup, they acknowledged the bug for the "Yes" version in their discord and said they're working on a fix.

I was really worried about Race on Mikey's rush. I assumed it wouldn't be possible to make the straight jump. I did the jump off to the side and that seemed to work okay. I think everything you're saying is true/valid. Especially the heart thing. Nothing's worse than using a katana discard and then realizing you didn't need it. Ultimately, I played on shuffle because I was hoping to get some of the harder levels earlier.

Hard to say. The save file is still present and the timestamp seems accurate to the last time the game was supposed to save. I wouldn't say you can tell if it's safe to upload or not.

Nope, the save deletion happens on game close. It could look fine on the main menu and you close and reopen the game and it'll be gone. There's really no way to know that it'll happen and you take that risk every time you close the game. I had never been able to close the game and have the save stick while going for the platinum (closed 3 times, save lost 3 times). Ironically, the save is now good on my garbage run I did just to get all of the gifts but there was nothing different between that times and the times it wiped my save. It's hard to recommend this game in the state that it's in with this save bug (and the gift bug) unless you know about the gift bug going in and are willing to have this be the only game you're playing while going for the platinum. But the devs acknowledged the save bug on twitter, so maybe it'll get fixed soon. I would definitely recommend it when fixed.

Yup, wiped my save 3 separate times. Completely unable to save progress on closing game.