You will know when this happens, I promise.

Quests in the log that have little clocks next to them will expire if you proceed past the point of no return in the game.

The game will “turn in” sidequests as soon as you complete them in the cases of “Kill this number of enemies” or “Collect this number of items”, so you don’t always need to run back to the quest giver to get the rewards.

Accept every side-quest you come across.

Unless you’re a completionist, don’t bother trying to finish every single sidequest that shows up in the log.

You are rewarded handsomely throughout the process, and it’s definitely worth it.

Change your party configuration often! Play around with the different characters’ Arts, too.

It may not seem like there should be a huge difference between level 12 and level 13, but there is.

If an enemy is tearing your shit up consistently, go level up for a little while.

Each one you cast removes the previous one.

Successful chain attacks reward the party with bonus EXP.

The exception to this is each characters white attack (like Shulks Monado abilities), which act like wild cards and can continue the chain just like any other colour, so for example Red – Red – Red would be just as strong as Blue – White – Red. Chaining a whole bunch of red attacks together does a hell of a lot more damage than switching between different colours.

Chain attacks work by making each subsequent attack of the same colour stronger.

One thing that a lot of people seem to miss is that you can fast travel to any area in the game you have previously been to by going into the menu and finding the map you want from the far left option.

You can repeat this as many times as you want until you get what you want.

If you don’t get what you want, reload the game and the chest will still be there. If a monster drops the type of chest you want (Wood, Silver, or Gold), you can save the game and open it.

A dropped chest will only decide what it’s going to give you when you open it.

Keep reloading your game until they drop what you are looking for or in the case of unique monsters they decide to spawn.

If you want to farm regular enemies for a rare drop or are trying to get a unique monster to spawn, go to the area where they are and save.

What they say will change as you do more sidequests, relationships in the affinity graph change and as your affinity with the area they’re in goes up.

Whenever you see someone with a blue dot, speak to them.

You have to put things into the collection by hand, it doesn’t happen automatically.

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