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Phantasy Star “soft locks”
Post Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:42 am
Soft locks are situations in games where you can’t progress any further for reasons other than your own lack of preparedness. For example, going under-equipped to a boss fight is your own fault; not being able to exit the dungeon because you didn’t carry a key from outside is a soft lock.

For the continuing Phantasy Star retranslation project, I recently fixed two in Phantasy Star - with credit to Popfan for highlighting them.

https://github.com/maxim-zhao/psrp/issues/84

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If you use a Transer or the Fly spell after obtaining the Luveno, and the last church you visited was in Paseo. You can't go back to Palma because the spaceports are closed, and you can't leave the area around Paseo because you haven't gotten any other vehicles yet.
If you kill Lassic, but Myau is dead, Alisa is either dead or doesn't have enough MP to cast Fly, Lutz is either dead or doesn't have enough MP to revive anyone, and you didn't buy a Transer. You then have no way of getting off the Air Castle.


Having fixed these, I’m curious if anyone can think of any other such issues.
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