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Anyone who wants to join, you may use the Ys: Memories of Celceta sign up thread, until Sunday 14th June when it will be closed. If you want to send an enquiry after that date, send me a PM or use this thread here. Anyone who invades this thread breaking this simple request will likely be added to my ignore list and effectively banned from all future playthroughs, this also includes anyone who puts spoilers in the thread, beyond the point we've played up to.

 

This starts Friday 12th June, if you don't have the game, if you want to join in on discussion of the game, don't discuss anything beyond the current checkpoint. I have tried to remove every single trace of anything that seemed like it could be a spoiler so don't worry about getting spoilers reading through this post.

 

Before We Start:

Ys: MoC requires two playthroughs to get the platinum trophy your inital playthrough can be on any difficulty (I'll be playing on normal, but feel free to play on easy yourself). You apparently get extra money on easy from what I have read and it should shorten the grind on some trophies (you can lower difficulty during your playthrough, but you can't increase it). In your first playthrough you want to get 100% map coverage and all chests, as this will make your second playthrough easier.

Source for trophy information here and Dragon_Archon will help me work out if I've made any errors (I'll ask him after I type this so he feels obliged to help )

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/ys-memories-of-celceta/230306-ys-memories-celceta-trophy-guide-road-map-na-eu.html

 

Here's some tips from Dragon-Archon:

 

I do have a few tips to make it easier:

• People need to walk near the edges of the map for it to propery register. I ended up with 99.3% uncovered, because I didn't walk near the edges at some places. The map is slightly blurry to indicate those areas.
• Also while exploring you or the AI party members need to attack a resource point and get at least 1 item from it to count for   Stupendous Scavenger.
• Once you have uncovered at least 50% of the map, report back to Griselda to get the Aeolus Urn artefact. Go to the Highland Village and upgrade it to Aeolus Urn+ as soon as possible. This will cause the urn to drop between 5-10 money every 5 or so seconds. Keep it equipped at all times (unless you need another artefact to progress the story). Getting 5-10 money doesn't seem much, but over the course of 30+ hours it will greatly help towards   Money For Something. Note that the 1 million isn't cumulative, you must have it on you. Upgraded artefacts do not carry over to NG+.
• Try to uncover 100% of the map before completing the first playthrough and report to Griselda. You get money for every 10% you discover for a grand total of 241,500 gold. Map completion carries over, so once you start NG+ you can get 241,500 gold again, along with the Aeolus Urn and Ares Seal artefacts.
• Do Nightmare during NG+ and equip the Ares Seal. That thing drastically increases the refill rate of the EXTRA skill.
• Be very careful when you or your party members get affected with Misfortune (a cracked 5-pointed star symbol, see image below). Characters affected with this will loose up to 50,000 gold every time they get hit and you can only recover about 10% of what you lost. Should you not be aware of this (like I was at first) you can easily loose all your gold. The best thing is to run away and wait for the effect to disappear.

 

1.Missable Trophies:

a )Treasure Hunter - Opened every chest. This does not carry over to new game plus so you need to do this in one run. Make sure to search every corner thoroughly.

Hidden chest in Tower of Providence:
http://i.imgur.com/4OqUHwZ.jpg

b )All the Things - Acquired One of Every Item, items to carry over between playthroughs, but you can only obtain 6 out of 12 sets of weapons during a series of weapon testing quests in Selray per playthrough. There's only 3 sun stones per playthrough, but you need 6 total, so this will need two playthroughs to. Make sure to use your sun stones as the stones themselves don't carry over in new game plus.

 

Tip from JeieeM:

During the quest 'Happy Suprise' you can complee the quest by handing in 3 flower, but if you hand in 4 different flowers you will get a unique item, so you should hand in 4, even though the quest giver does not request it.

 

c )Monster Meister and Better Man - Complete Bestiary and defeat Duren in one on one combat. I've put these together as Duren is the only missable "beast", although two bosses also spawn minions so make sure to kill those to.

The bosses Gadis and Bami summon additional monsters so be sure to kill these minions.

For Duren:

You can fight with Duren as part of the quest called Sword Training, which can be found on Comodo’s quest board after you’ve unlocked them. Once you read the board, go to top layer of the village. Make sure to save your game and then talk to two girls there to accept the quest.

You will be asked to have a duel with Duren. He’s not too hard but can hurt you pretty bad and lock you into aerial combos if you’re not careful. Use whatever skills you have and keep dodging or guarding against his attacks. You can use your EXTRA skill to deal massive damage to him if you have it at full. If it’s not full, try to fill it by dealing damage using regular skills. Also there is no penalty for using healing items, so keep a few Bitter Potions handy and use them if you feel like you’ll lose the fight.

If you happen to lose the fight, you will miss the trophy along with Duren’s monster file. So reload your save and try again.

d )Philanthropist - Complete every quest, this is missable as quests can be failed so be sure to save before attempting quests. Urgent quests should be your priority. Every location has a quest board.

e )Tickled Pink - Endure all of Zara's tickle sessions:

Zara is a girl in Selray that is located in the same building as the Quest Board. You should talk to her and let her tickle you at specific points in the game for the trophy.

• As soon as you reach Selray and have Ozma in your party.
• After you beat Sacred Beast’s Lair and have access to quests.
• When you get back to Selray, after Karna and Ozma rejoins party.
• After you are done with Highland Town and given Gold Wings.
• After Frieda joins the party.
• After the scenes at Roos’ Nest, before heading to Mt. Vesuvio.
• After clearing Colonia Artifact Lab.
• Right after the previous one.

Once you complete them all and earn the trophy, you can ask her to tickle you whenever you want, which is a good way of filling your SP and EXTRA gauges.

f  )Heard it all - Purchased all info from Mouse

Mouse is an informant standing in the back alley of Casnan. You have to talk to him and buy new info for 100 gold each at specific points in the game for the trophy.

• After you receive the map from Griselda, before you leave Casnan.
• After you are done with Comodo Village events and unlock the quests.
• After you are done with Selray Village events and unlock the quests. Be sure to buy it before you’re done with 2 new quests in Casnan.
• Right after Karna rejoins the party.
• After you are done with Highland Town.
• After Frieda joins the party.
• After the scenes at Roos’ Nest, before heading to Mt. Vesuvio.
• After clearing Colonia Artifact Lab.

g )Touche, Salesman - proved your skill as a merchant

There are three quests that allow you to prove your skill as a merchant. Note that during haggles, you have to stop at certain points otherwise you will fail those missions.

Also for Shopkeeper for a Day quest, you have to pay attention to what the merchant is telling you, as one of the items always changes each time you accept that quest.

• Purchasing Iron Ore
  • Haggle with the goldsmith until he offers you 6250 gold
• Shopkeeper for a Day
  Choose the answers as below:
• Recommend Cotton
• Refuse
• Buy a fruit for her (30G)
• Call out to try attracting more
• Sell him a [Nut/Fruit] (could be Chito Nut, Raparo Fruit or Arieda Fruit, you have to pay attention during his explanation)
• Discount the [Nut/Fruit] (same as previous one)

If you chose all items correctly you will get the (Extra Large) reward

• Purchasing Silver
  • Keep haggling until the merchant offers you a Hammer Beak to sweeten the deal, then accept it

 

Guidelines:

1. We only play up to the agreed milestone, I think if we leave people behind the group will fall apart, if people fall behind we will continue, but i do hope he others will try to keep up.

2. If you do meet an agreed story milestone, try to focus on any collectibles.

3. Let us know in the thread if you meet a milestone so we can tell if everything is running smoothly, if you're having trouble with a boss or particular enemies try to ask in the thread first before consulting a guide, this is mainly to keep the talk on the game still open.

4. If you have any suggestions I'm completely open to them.

5. Anyone who wants to join, you may use the Ys:MoC sign up thread, until Sunday 14th June when it will be closed. If you want to send an enquiry after that date, send me a PM. Anyone who invades this thread breaking this simple request will likely be added to my ignore list and effectively banned from all future playthroughs, this also includes anyone who puts spoilers in the thread, beyond the point we've played up to.

 

Group members:

Current Members:

1. Superbuu3 (Platinum)
2. aerosol_grey (Platinum)
3. cjshaitan (Beat the Game)
4. Dragon-Archon (Platinum)
5. j-a-y-888 (Platinum)
6. JeieeM (Platinum)
7. Jeandeve (Checkpoint 7)
8. NetEntity (Beat Nightmare)
9. NullRay85 (Checkpoint 8)
10. Yadille (Platinum)

 

Late Joiners:

 

OrdinaryTune

zorba-da-greek

ConAir

greenzsaber

redcar200, shadow0988, CasaDeBen dropped out

 

We start on Friday 12th June, hope that covers everything and most importantly have fun.

If checkpoints are too close together, do let me know and we'll set two bosses/areas for that checkpoint instead.

 

 

Previous Checkpoints:

Checkpoint 1 - Complete Casnia Mine (24 hours)

You should be awarded a trophy for your progression. Don't proceed beyond this point and make sure you save.

Checkpoint 2 - Reach the Forest of Dawn: Stream

Feel free to fully explore this area itself just don't head down the branches from here, and its fair game to search areas before this point. This should leave us at a place that we can compare progress easily. If what I have read is accurate this should be the area that gives a fork leading to Misty Peak (Selray) and Forest Labyrinth (Comodo), which is branching point which have missables both ways). Checkpoint 3 will include getting everything from both areas. If I've made any areas do inform me please. thanks.

 

Missables:

First up we will be in Casnan City:

•  Heard It All.- you have to goto the back alley near the inn/bar and give him 100G for information (you'll have to visit him a total of eight times throughout the game and this is detailed in the first post under missables)
• After completing the Casnia Mine, you can accept a side quest to sell Iron Ore for   Touche Salesman. You can fail that and miss the bronze trophy and    Philantrophist. You need to haggle with the salesman until he offers you 6250G.
• To Milk a Fabros and Honey Potions are two urgent quests that are missable, there's another quest Bear on the Plains.

 

Beast Plains:

Clear missions Bear on the Plains and to Milk a Fabros.

Checkpoint 3: Clear Ancient Burrow and Sacred Beast's Lair

Missables:

Blue = story-related trophies

Green = information from Mouse in Casnan

Orange = tickling session from Zara in Selray

 

Comodo first:

Missable content unlock after completing Ancient Burrow (beating the 2 bosses there) and returning to Comodo

• Sword Training side quest becomes available. You have to defeat Duren for    Better Man and    Philanthrophist.  (Note: this is an Urgent quest). There are also 2 Non-urgent quests A Fresh Meal and The Monkey King.
• Information #2 must be purchased from mouse in Casnan for    Heard It All.
• Unlocks  Proof of Life after arriving in Comodo and  Homecoming for Some after clearing the Ancient Burrow and returning to Comodo.

 

Selray first:

• After arriving at Selray and being able to walk freely, go to the inn and talk to Zara (the little girl near the quest board) and let her tickle you (tickling session #1).
• After arriving at Selray you'll get  Proof of Life for reaching a settlement.
• After completing Sacred Beast's Lair and returning to Selray, talk to Zara for tickling session #2.
• After completing Sacred Beast's Lair and returning to Selray, the side quest Shopkeeper for a Day becomes available (Check opening post for details if you are struggling to get the Extra Large Reward, which is needed for Touche Salesman). This one is needed for    Touche, Salesman and   Philanthrophist.  Note there are two other non-urgent quests Seeking Moisture and Swarm of Black.
• After completing Sacred Beast's Lair and returning to Selray, information #2 must be purchased from mouse in Casnan for    Heard It All.
• Completing Sacred Beast's Lair and returning to Selray unlocks  Pure Waters.

Completing both Comodo and Selray & Casnan Revisit:

1. Tickling session #3 becomes available in Selray.
2. Information #3 must be purchased in Casnan. Important: there's a very small window to get this, it's best to get this while you're alone in Casnan and have to complete 2 side quests to continue the story. After that Karna joins it's too late to get information #3.
3. After Karna joins the party in Casnan, buy information #4.

Selray Revisit:

1. After Ozma joins the party in Selray, talk to Zara for tickling session #3.
2. The first Weapon Testing side quest is also available in Selray. You must choose between two types of weapons and choose the other one during NG+ to get all of them for  All The Things

 

Checkpoint 4 - Reach the Primeval Lands

Go through the Underground Ruins and reach the Primeval Lands Closer to the Truth.

 

Checkpoint 5 - Complete the Tower of Providence

Missables and Notes:

1. There's a treasure chest that's very easy to miss in the Tower of Providence and it's needed for  Treasure Hunter.
   
2. There are 2 missable monsters in the Tower of Providence. Fildabal during the first boss fight and Zandabal will be summoned once you scale the tower with the boots artefact.
3. After reaching the top of the Tower of Providence, you'll unlock  White Wings.

I know some people will be worried about the new checkpoint. The reason for this is the last checkpoint left us in the middle of a quest unable to explore the map. This checkpoint will give you freedom to go wherever you want again.

 

Checkpoint 6 - Complete The Highland Event

Missables:

Completing Highland event:

1. Purchasing Silver Ingots (Keep haggling until the merchant offers you a Hammer Beak to sweeten the deal, then accept it) becomes available in Highland, completing this one will also unlock   Touche, Salesman.
2. Unleashing Artefacts becomes available in Highland, after completing that you can upgrade artefacts. When you have the Aeolus Urn, upgrade it immediately.
3. You can find Mishy in Highland to start    Mishy Masher.
4. Buy information #5 in Casnan
5. Tickling session #4 in Selray
6. Second Weapon Testing side quest becomes available in Selray

Checkpoint 7 - Complete The Events at Danan Village 

Do not proceed to Ashen Forest

Completing the events at Danan village:

1. After reaching Danan village you'll unlock  A Storied Village.
2. Buy information #6 in Casnan
3. Tickling session #5 in Selray
4. Third Weapon Testing side quest becomes available in Selray (you can only complete this one in the Ashen Forest Marshland, which is the next area story-wise).

Checkpoint 8 - Complete Roo's Nest

 

Completing Roo's Nest:

1. After obtaining the Sacred Beast Collar, talk to the roo Oroocle in beast form to get a hidden memory for    Memory Unfogged.
2. If you have found Mishy at the other 5 places, talk to him in beast form to get    Mishy Masher and 2 of every gem.
3. Buy information #7 in Casnan
4. Tickling session #6 in Selray

 

Note: From here the path splits and you can choose to go to Mt. Vesuvio or Lake Tolmes Ruins. You have to do both and the next story-related trophy (   Mask in Hand) will pop after clearing both. Both bosses at these dungeons summon additional monsters. After completing both these dungeons, you have to return to Roo's Nest and after that, you must go to the Colonia Artefact Lab.

 

Checkpoint 9 - Enter Temple of the Sun

Completing Colonia Artefact Lab and opening the Temple of the Sun:

1. After completing Colonia Artefact Lab, buy information #8 in Casnan and    Heard It All should unlock.
2. After completing CAL, do tickling session #7 and #8.    Tickled Pink will unlock.
3. Opening the Temple of the Sun unlocks   Beyond Lies Your Goal.
4. If you have explored everything up to now (including the Nameless Ruin and the area with Foria Daros in the Forest of the Dawn) you should have 100% of the map uncovered as soon as you enter the Temple of the Sun and  Master Cartographer should unlock. Don't forget to report your progress to Griselda in Casnan.
5. After opening the Temple of the Sun, a boss fight starts. After beating that boss, the side quest Happy Present becomes available in Selray. Be sure to have 3 Marl Flowers, 3 Yupel Flowers, 3 Libra Flowers, and 3 Celceta Flowers so you can get all 4 missable rewards for    All The Things.
6. After beating the boss in the temple and all 3 weapon testing quests, the side quest Legendary Weapon becomes available in Selray. You must do this and give 3 Sun Stones to create 3 ultimate weapons and craft the remaining 3 weapons during NG+. Sun Stones don't carry over, so you must do them to get all 6 of them in 2 playthroughs. Sun Stones are found in
   • the Colonia Artefact Lab
   • Namess Ruin in Forest of the Dawn (requires Beast King's Claws)
   • Iris Gold Trial (you still have to enter this area)
7. After beating the boss in the temple, the last batch of side quests will unlock, Succesfully completing them will also unlock    Philanthropist.

 

Checkpoint 10 - Complete the Game

Location of the final chest - Beat the 3 trials then use the central warp point to head for the "Central Area" to progress the story. Before going upward, check behind the warp point for the Berserker Armor +6.

Point of no return: After you progress the story heading north will take you to a warp monument, you can use it to heal but progressing past it will trigger the end of the game, so make sure you save before this. Also don't go past this unless you are confident you have missed nothing. Your Monster compendium should be 94.8% at this point. Harvest, Chest and Map completion should all be 100%.

Checkpoint 11 - Clear Ancient Burrow and Sacred Beast's Lair on Nightmare Difficulty

Checkpoint 12 - Complete the Tower of Providence

Checkpoint 13 - Complete the Events at Danan Village

Checkpoint 14 - Complete Roo's Nest

Checkpoint 15 - Enter Temple of the Sun

Checkpoint 16 - Destroy the one ring... I mean beat the game on Nightmare difficulty

 

 

When you reach a checkpoint and post an update in this thread be sure to post your map completion this will be the easiest way for us to tell if anyone is missing anything.

 

Discussion Points:

 

Checkpoint 1 and 2 Discussion Points:

If you've played before, no spoilers if you're answering stuff.

1. Thoughts on the amnesia as a plot device in this game?

2. Thoughts on Adol and Duren? (don't worry if you don't have many this is more to see how our opinions change on them)

3. Favourite Character so far?

4. Thoughts on General Leo? Do you think he'll prove to be an ally or a hindrance in the long run?

5. Thoughts on the combat system? Who have you been using most?

6. How did you find the first boss fight in the mines?

7. Do you like the art style/graphics?

 

Checkpoint 3 Discussion Points:

 

Remember to state what difficulty you're playing on.

1. Did you goto Comodo or Selray First?

2. Thoughts on Ozma and Karna?

3. Who's your current favourite character and has it changed?

4. Which character are you using for combat most? Which character are you using for enemies with no weakness and bosses?

5. What did you think of the intro of both towns being almost identical?

6. Do you like how we have flashbacks before entering each village?

7. Did you have any idea who the masked enemies might be? Did the masked warriors blocking the entrance to Ancient Burrow tough?

8. Did you enjoy the two boss fights in Ancient Burrow (The giant bee Melldrabie and the bug that rolls into a ball Glucarius)?

9. What do you think of Remnos and how he hid his abilities? Do you think Karna had a right to be annoyed?

10. What did you think of Forest labyrinth and Misty peak with the repeating screens?

11. What did you think was happening in Selray when you heard about the poison?

12. Did you prefer the Ancient burrow or Sacred Beasts lair dungeon?

13. Did you enjoy the serpent boss (Volnake) and the fish boss (Angoraboras)?

14. Did the actual source of the poisoning surprise you?

15. Thoughts on Bami (sexy sorceress) and Gadis (the walking tank). What do you think they are planning?

 

Discussion Points Checkpoint 4,5 and 6:

1. Have you been modding your equpiment or has basic equipment been doing enough damage? Roughly what leve is your equpiment and which difficulty are you playing on?

2.Thoughts on the underground ruin? Did you bother with underwater combat or did you skip fighting except what you needed for the bestiary?

3. How did you find the Elvaron boss fight? (Giant robot boss in the ruins)

4. What was your reaction to finding Adole's gravestone? What did you think had happened?

5. Did you like Duren's joke about how things keep turning out?

6. What were your first impressions of Eldeel? What do you think he is or suppose to represent? Who did you expect to join the party out of Callilica and Leeza?

7. Did you suggest the gravedigging or did you let your team? Did you think the mask mentioned in the scrap you found was connected to the masked villagers?

8. If Duren found Adol's notebook and gave it back to him, where did the scrap come from?

9. What did you think of the explanation for the progression of mankind? Is the plotline more/less interesting then you expected considering it started with amnesia?

10. Did you manage to cross the sanctuary of storms without being hit (with exception of the first time you definitely get hit)?

11. How did you find the Tower of providence? Did you bother fighting all the big enemies or did you avoid encounters outside of bestiary needs?

12. How did you find the boss encounter and chase scenes?

13. What do you think of Karna's brother after the events in Highland?

14. Who's your favourite character now?

15. Have enemies in general been giving you any trouble or any of the boss fights?

16. Anything else to add?

 

Discussion points Checkpoint 7 and 8:

 

1. First Impressions of Callica? Did you expect her to join the party? What do you think of her combat ability?

2. What did you think of the revelation that Remnos was not under the influence of the mask and he joined the bad guys willingly?

3. Who did you think Duren was talking to and were you suspicious?

4. What were your impressions of Gruda at this point? Do you consider the Romulun army good or bad?

5. What did you think of the revelation that Duren wasn't an old acquaintance of Adol and had actually just been spying on him?

6. What did you think of Frieda? What do you tink Gruda's connection is to everyone?

7. Were you suprised by the Leeza boss fight? How did you find the Sol Galba boss fight?

8. Did you expect Gruda to be the main villain with how he managed to manipulate Leeza into getting him the Mask of the Sun?

9. How did you find Ashen Forest and the Madogra-Slef minibosses? How about the Frog Fight?

10. First impressions of Frieda and her combat ability?

11. Who have you been using as your main party? Which items have you considered essential to equip?

12. How did you handle the Mustrum boss fight (angler fish robot hybrid that regenerates)?

13. What are your thoughts on the whole Lefance back story and the events of Celceta? How are you finding the story overall?

14. What did you think of Leo's sudden usefulness? Did you expect him to be so useful?

15. How did you find the Bami and Gadis boss fights?

16. Overall have you been enjoying the story? Is it better than you expected?

17. How have you found map exploration/sidequests?

18. Any other thoughts you want to share?

 

Make sure to keep multiple save files in this game, you can save anywhere so make use of that. Also save before undertaking quests in case you fail. This is mentioned above, but i'll say it again in case you didn't read it.

Edited November 5, 2015 by Superbuu3

[hyappatuhyakuchu]

Awesome. Are there any missable things until that point?

[Yadilie]

No, first missable progression is after the Mine and before you leave. He should be putting missable in the Checkpoints just so people don't get screwed over.

[Dragon-Archon]

Awesome. Are there any missable things until that point?

After completing the Casnia Mine, you can accept a side quest to sell Iron Ore for Touché Salesman. You can fail that and miss that bronze trophy and the Philantrophist.

[Superbuu3]

No, first missable progression is after the Mine and before you leave. He should be putting missable in the Checkpoints just so people don't get screwed over.

That would be after the current checkpoint, which is why I haven't mentioned it. As its after the first dungeon you get access to the town where the quest is. Unless you want me to move where the checkpoint is?

 

After completing the Casnia Mine, you can accept a side quest to sell Iron Ore for Touché Salesman. You can fail that and miss that bronze trophy and the Philantrophist.

This is in the town after the mine right? Unless what I'm looking at is inaccurate.

[Dragon-Archon]

This is in the town after the mine right? Unless what I'm looking at is inaccurate.

Yeah, it's Casnan village. The Casnia Mine is in that same village.

[Superbuu3]

No, first missable progression is after the Mine and before you leave. He should be putting missable in the Checkpoints just so people don't get screwed over.

No, I've checked again and if people stick to the checkpoints and don't start running off they won't be screwed out of anything. If you've seen how I've run things previously I haven't missed any missables in any games yet, so I'm pretty confident what I'm doing. If i'm doing something wrong be more clear as to why its wrong. The trigger for that trophy is before you have missed anything.

 

I also have to highlight this, because this kind of comment will undermine confidence in the group. So no I have not made an error, we'll get into the town and sidequests, on Saturday, I'll set this as a timed checkpoint.

 

EDIT: that probably comes across as more annoyed than I am, but not easy to convey that.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Superbuu3

[Yadilie]

No, I've checked again and if people stick to the checkpoints and don't start running off they won't be screwed out of anything. If you've seen how I've run things previously I haven't missed any missables in any games yet, so I'm pretty confident what I'm doing. If i'm doing something wrong be more clear as to why its wrong. The trigger for that trophy is before you have missed anything.

 

I also have to highlight this, because this kind of comment will undermine confidence in the group. So no I have not made an error, we'll get into the town and sidequests, on Saturday, I'll set this as a timed checkpoint.

 

That's not a post saying you arn't going to be doing that. That's a post saying that you will be doing that. So no one misses anything.

[JaM]

sorry for intrusion.. but is there a specific time when people should start... you know... like it is already June 12 in my place...:3

[Superbuu3]

That's not a post saying you arn't going to be doing that. That's a post saying that you will be doing that. So no one misses anything.

I feel stupid >_>, sorry.

[Dragon-Archon]

Here's some tips from Dragon-Archon:

 

I do have a few tips to make it easier:

• People need to walk near the edges of the map for it to propery register. I ended up with 99.3% uncovered, because I didn't walk near the edges at some places. The map is slightly blurry to indicate those areas.
• Also while exploring you or the AI party members need to attack a resource point and get at least 1 item from it to count for   Stupendous Scavenger.
• Once you have uncovered at least 50% of the map, report back to Griselda to get the Aeolus Urn artefact. Go to the Highland Village and upgrade it to Aeolus Urn+ as soon as possible. This will cause the urn to drop between 5-10 money every 5 or so seconds. Keep it equipped at all times (unless you need another artefact to progress the story). Getting 5-10 money doesn't seem much, but over the course of 30+ hours it will greatly help towards   Money For Something. Note that the 1 million isn't cumulative, you must have it on you. Upgraded artefacts do not carry over to NG+.
• Try to uncover 100% of the map before completing the first playthrough and report to Griselda. You get money for every 10% you discover for a grand total of 245,000 gold. Map completion carries over, so once you start NG+ you can get 245,000 gold again, along with the Aeolus Urn and Ares Seal artefacts.
• Do Nightmare during NG+ and equip the Ares Seal. That thing drastically increases the refill rate of the EXTRA skill.

I'd like to add the following:

• I made a calculation error about the 10 rewards you get from Griselda. The total amount is 241,500 gold and not 245,000.
• Be very careful when you or your party members get affected with Misfortune (a cracked 5-pointed star symbol, see image below). Characters affected with this will loose up to 50,000 gold every time they get hit and you can only recover about 10% of what you lost. Should you not be aware of this (like I was at first) you can easily loose all your gold. The best thing is to run away and wait for the effect to disappear. The skulls in the picture are from a Curse effect and aren't related to Misfortune, it's the only picture I could find.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Dragon-Archon

[Superbuu3]

sorry for intrusion.. but is there a specific time when people should start... you know... like it is already June 12 in my place...:3

Go ahead, I just said the 12th June, dictating a time would get complicated so if its 12th for you go nuts.

I'd like to add the following:

• I made a calculation error about the 10 rewards you get from Griselda. The total amount is 241,500 gold and not 245,000.
• Be very careful when you or your party members get affected with Misfortune (a cracked 5-pointed star symbol, see image below). Characters affected with this will loose up to 50,000 gold every time they get hit and you can only recover about 10% of what you lost. Should you not be aware of this (like I was at first) you can easily loose all your gold. The best thing is to run away and wait for the effect to disappear.

I'll edit that into the first post.

 

Also that is the worst status effect i've heard of in a game.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Superbuu3

[JaM]

I'll start now then... 

[hyappatuhyakuchu]

sorry for intrusion.. but is there a specific time when people should start... you know... like it is already June 12 in my place...:3

 

Just wondering, what is everyone's time? Mine is UTC -5.

[JaM]

Just wondering, what is everyone's time? Mine is UTC -5.

I am at +8GMT so it is already 1:01 AM 06/12... yep 12 hours ahead of EST...

[Dragon-Archon]

I'll edit that into the first post.

 

Also that is the worst status effect i've heard of in a game.

I agree, it's clearly a case of developers trolling. Also the purple skulls are the Curse effect and aren't related to Misfortune. It was the only picture I could find.

[JaM]

I'd like to add the following:

• I made a calculation error about the 10 rewards you get from Griselda. The total amount is 241,500 gold and not 245,000.
• Be very careful when you or your party members get affected with Misfortune (a cracked 5-pointed star symbol, see image below). Characters affected with this will loose up to 50,000 gold every time they get hit and you can only recover about 10% of what you lost. Should you not be aware of this (like I was at first) you can easily loose all your gold. The best thing is to run away and wait for the effect to disappear. The skulls in the picture are from a Curse effect and aren't related to Misfortune, it's the only picture I could find.

will confirm regarding the mapping reward... you will get total of 241500 when you 100%'d the map... see spoiler below for denomination

1000

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20000

30000

50000

100000

 

with regards to misfortune, that is the perfect screenshot... if you are in Misfortune, there will be 2 purple-ish skull, the character body will turn purple-ish as well and in your icon with that star below... curse has different icon and you will be colored green... and yep.. this the worst debuff... good thing there is an accessory to prevent it...

 

 

oh btw... checkpoint reached? the trophy will pop after you talk with Griselda in her office right? and no progress of map yet since I haven't received the map of Celceta yet...

[Yadilie]

Checkpoint Reached. Mines done.

 

Man the JP control scheme is all sorts of confusing.

 

 

Went ahead and hit this checkpoint since it's a quickie. Staying up pretty late today doing Inn Requests in Graces f, so not sure how long I'll be sleeping tomorrow, heh. Wouldn't want to hold people back at the beginning.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Yadilie

[Satoshi Ookami]

 

Man the JP control scheme is all sorts of confusing.

You can switch the Vita controls while you're playing this if you want.

[Yadilie]

You can switch the Vita controls while you're playing this if you want.

 

I'll probably get used to this. It's just at the moment I was trying to Dualize things and do Celceta. So I was swapping between JP and NA control schemes within seconds of each other, heh.

[CasaDeBen]

Welp. I am there amd waiting on nightmare run.

[aerosol_grey]

I've reached the first checkpoint...

[j-a-y-888]

I've also just reached the first checkpoint.

 

Although my game time has been under an hour, I am really happy with this game so far! It's exactly what I've been looking for on the Vita.

 

Having no background knowledge of this game or its story, it's also nice to finally have a grasp on the games premise - that is, the relevance of memories, map exploration etc. 

Edited June 12, 2015 by j-a-y-888

[AffectatiousDonk]

Have reached checkpoint, second jay888's comment its actually makes a pleasant change to have a handle on what is actually going on in the first 30mins of a game.

I am GMT +10 (AEST) time zone

[hyappatuhyakuchu]

I've reached the first checkpoint...

 

What are your map% dudes...?

 

I haven't reached the checkpoint yet. Don't worry, it's coming.