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I was considering making a side-quest only accessible if you reached the final savepoint, but I'm still mulling it over.

If you intend your final dungeon to build-up towards your final boss then I would heavily advise against this kind of side quest. Any tension built up over the course of the final dungeon will be lost when the player leaves the dungeon to spend time on a side quest, the result being that the final battle will lose some of its... epicness?

The thing about my game is that innumerable side-quests can only be undertaken once you've completed the main body of the game. I could make it that the final dungeon is for after doing side-quests, but I'm still going to put the teleport-to-Ragnarok function in. Just in case. I intend on making the final boss an absolute nightmare of a fight, so if they want to go back into the world and try and better their party I'll let them.
If I recall, the only side-quest that doesn't require you to complete the main body of the game is the secret character side-quest, which becomes unavailable before you reach the final dungeon.

Hopefully all of us it will come sometime. The final dungeon, your games last gasp of breath before it lets go and blows you straight into the final battle and the prestigious ending sequence that we all crave to someday event/draw/animate/write about.

So, what do you want to give your players as they exit? A struggle? An interesting and diverse final area that will leave them with great memories? Or do you not have a lead up at all?


My final level is the Shinra/Omniax Building. You have to scale it, ala FF7, but I plan on really making the floors tough, but really interesting. I want to captivate the player, and leave them with fond memories as the credits roll. It's one of the reasons that only the final bosses are fully animated, aside from your party.
I also want to give them lots to do just in case they're like me, aka reluctant to finish games if they're good. (I hope my game is good :c). So I want to include a couple of final bosses, puzzles, etc.
I'm also including the function at the final savepoint to return to your airship and from that point forward immediately go to that savepoint. I was considering making a side-quest only accessible if you reached the final savepoint, but I'm still mulling it over.


Your thoughts on the final area/s of your game!

It's only used on about 4 maps in the entire game. I wanted to create heavy contrasts in Miehlebin- the strange, creepy town, the bright, sunlit forests of the lower part of the mountains, and the dark, foreboding paths that lead up to the Reactor.

So pretty much Town=Unfamiliarity, Lower Mountains=Reminiscence(works better with the music) and Upper Mountain=Foreboding.

Looks better with the proper screentone anyway.

I blog too much. So I try to make my updates worthwhile when I do >3<

\lynch abstain

I'd rather note vote on the first day :|