Easiest quests to miss / fail

[DexTepa]

There are six quests in the game that are very easy to miss or fail:

 

Wisdom of Gaeus  (C03)
Gilbert - Love is Blind  (C65)
The Treasure Map  (C35)
The Nordic Snowfield  (C51)
Seeing Double  (C43)
Pee-Wee Birdie  (C67)
Wimpy Thugling  (C66)

 

The Wisdom of Gaeus is available at the very beginning of the game once you've completed Niccolo's Business Unusual. You need to team up with Daena (found at the inn in Domina) and go see Gaeus on Luon Highway. You can fail the quest right away if you choose any wrong dialog options when you talk to Daena. You need to choose "It lives forever" and "Let's go." The quest can then fail while it's in progress if Daena leaves the party. This happens if you enter your house in Home or if you enter Gato. Daena will also disappear from the inn if you complete both Niccolo's Business Unusual and The Lost Princess and then enter Gato.

 

On a somewhat related note, completing the Wisdom of Gaeus gives you a Forbidden Ring. If you have that equipped, your xp is split between you and any allies. It's useful for leveling up pets, so better hang on to it.

 

Gilbert - Love is Blind becomes unavailable if you go to Geo and trigger Gilbert - School Amour.

 

The Treasure Map involves claiming pieces of a torn map from a bunch of Dudbears. You claim them by mashing Confirm when you're close enough to one of them. It's better to not chase them, but instead get on their path and wait for them to come to you. It seems like you have a better chance of succeeding if you're not moving when you hit Confirm. In any case, the main issue here is the time limit. There's a hidden timer that starts running when you enter an area with any Dudbears. If the timer reaches a certain figure, Roger appears and the quest is failed. The timer resets when you obtain a piece of the map or if you leave and re-enter the area. The timer stops once you have all the pieces from that area. The length of the timer depends on how many bears there are left: 6-8 -> 30 seconds, 5 -> 25s, 4 -> 20s, 3 -> 16s, 2 -> 12s, 1 -> 8s.

 

The Nordic Snowfield is the follow-up quest to The Treasure Map. That's the only reason it's easy to miss.

 

Seeing Double, Pee-Wee Birdie and Wimpy Thugling require Lv3 mana values for certain elements in the areas where they occur. Eg. Seeing Double is in Domina and requires Shade Lv3. Pee-Wee Birdie is also in Domina, while Wimpy Thugling is in Duma Desert.

 

The easiest way to get all of these is to have Domina and Duma Desert diagonally adjacent to one another and then leave an empty space next to them for an Artifact obtained later in the game that boosts all Mana values to max.

 

 

I suppose there are a few more that are worth mentioning.

 

The Lost Princess can technically be failed if you enter the Tower of Leires before completing the quest.

 

Nic's Business Parts 2, 3 and 4 can each fail if you go Home while the quest is in progress.

 

Diddle Had It will fail if you have Pokiehl take you out of the dungeon.

 

Pokiehl - Dream Teller will fail if you leave the Ulkan Mines.

 

You can fail In Search of Faeries if you choose a certain dialog option, in which case you're prevented from completing the entire Faerie storyline.

Anyone who's played the original should be familiar with how the Cactus Diary works. In case you're new, here's the deal: When you talk to Li'l Cactus after completing a quest, you'll receive a small entry regarding the quest in the Cactus Diary. However, this *only* applies to the most recent quest completed. This means you can easily miss an entry if you don't talk to Li'l Cactus before completing another quest. If you end up missing some entries, you'll have another chance to get them when doing a New Game+ playthrough - unless it's one of the five quests that do *not* reoccur on New Game+.

 

The five quests that don't reoccur in New Game+ are:

 

The Mana Orchards  (C56)
Monster Corral  (C57)
Enchanted Instruments 101  (C54)
The Path of the Blacksmith  (C53)
Golem Go Make'em  (C55)

 

"Would you like to know more?"

 

So, yeah, my LoM guide is now up on GameFAQs (it's probably the most up-to-date guide). You can also find it on my pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/u/3vrB257ncl4qg9s?sort=name

 

By the way, the remaster is based on the North American release. Even if you buy it off the Japanese store, it's still the same version.

Edited June 24, 2021 by DexTepa

[Taruta13]

Daena is not in the inn, but I think it was because I completed The Little Sorcerers and you have to go to the inn right after Niccolo's Business unusual, unless I am missing a spot in the inn.

 

Time to reload my save back on Luon to refight Mantis Ant!

 

EDIT: Nevermind, I found her, I should have known there was a guest room in the bottom of the inn, I was checking the second floor. Oopsie! ?

 

Edited September 11, 2022 by Taruta13