I mentioned in the previous post that I’d been spending all my time doing sidequests instead of advancing the main story in Zill O’ll Infinite Plus. For the sake of anyone who plays this game one day, let me warn you: do not do this. It is a terrible way to play the game, for several reasons.

1. The game is longer than I’d thought. Spend 20 hours killing time and you’ll be sick of the game when things really get under way.

2. Since the game is long, you’ll end up getting stronger and richer anyway. No need to rush to get it all done at the start of the game.

3. You’ll be going back and forth between places and people once the ‘real’ story begins. If you’ve been going back and forth all along, you’ll be sick and tired of the various locations and people and won’t be able to enjoy them like you should.

4. While random battle enemies scale to your level, story enemies don’t. When your HP is in the 800s, you’ll be beating up on guys with 60 HP. You bully.

5. 20 hours is waaaay too much time to waste on random sidequests, no matter how much fun they appear at first. You will get bored, and it will happen when you need to be doing quests to progress certain character stories, and then you’ll be sorry.

6. While completing quests with characters in your party is one way to raise affection, this seems to happen very slowly and erratically. Any character whose affection can only be raised that way can’t be very story-relevant, so you might want to leave them to subsequent playthroughs – once you’re sure you like them and like the game enough to play again and again.

If I could turn (turn), turn back the hands of time, then I wouldn’t spend~ so much time dilly-dallying~. In my defense, “Go do Guild quests until we tell you otherwise” is what I was told at the start of the game. It’s not my fault I got addicted and overdosed and now find it hard to continue the game.

That’s not to say I’ve quit, though. It hasn’t gotten that bad yet. I have been exploring other avenues though. Tried one or two games, and I’ve been seriously ‘playing’ Pri Saga Portable, a cliched but highly enjoyable visual novel, for the past 3 hours or so. I’m thinking of taking a break from Zill O’ll, but I fear I’d never come back. Gotta be strong!

Related posts:

Going on a little trip The Basics of Zill O’ll Infinite Plus Zill O’ll Infinite Plus: Progress Update (spoilers) Finished Zill O’ll Infinite Plus – Final roundup (spoilers)