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Fab_GS on 23 September 2011
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RolStoppable said:
Fab_GS said:


- The game punishes you for exploring and doing side quests by overleveling you

The sidequest implementation is just heavily frontloaded. You can accept about three dozens of sidequests right at the start of the game and doing all of them will overlevel you indeed. The same holds true if you continue to do all the sidequests in the following areas, but by about the midpoint of the storyline it begins to even out and by the end of the game you are almost underleveled even if you did 400 sidequests or more.

It's pretty much impossible to have a JRPG with tons of rewarding sidequests that don't overlevel you. Scratch or decrease the rewards and the sidequests lose their appeal. Increase the difficulty of the storyline and the game either becomes a grindfest or feels like you are forced to do sidequests.

The best advice I can give is to stop doing sidequests once you sense that you are getting overleveled and come back to them later, because by then the EXP rewards have much less of an impact. Unless marked otherwise, pretty much all sidequests remain available until the very end of the game.


I did stop when I noticed that I'm overleveled. But the problem is I noticed that I'm overleved when I arrived at the refuge camp. Where everyone gave me tons of timed sidequests. Not knowing when it will end, I did them all before getting out of Gaur Plains. The same thing happened when I arrived at Alcamoth. I literally spent days finishing all the timed exclusives that city has to offer before going to Prison Island.

Side quests isn't the only source of EXPs. Discovering locations, landmarks nets you some EXPs. Sometimes secret areas give you too much EXPs. Another problem is the difference between 2 levels is quite big. An enemy that It's impossible to win at let's say level 70, can be easily defeated at level 72-73.

They should've balanced the amount of side quests (or EXPs) given at a certain time. Getting more than 15-25 side quests when first arriving at a town is too much. Frontier Village is a good example of that.

That's true regarding the unique enemies at the end of the game. It's how I'm enjoying the game now.