#complete playthrough

YES, you can do this, and YES, it even works. But if you do this, Demon King Dragonia WILL NOT DROP ANYTHING. Sure, you’ll complete this quest--but what about “Replica Monado 4″?

To complete the “Replica Monado 4″ quest, you need an item called the Demonic Everflame, dropped only by Demon King Dragonia and the LV 120 Avalanche Abaasy.

Now, I for one am not good with strategy. I’ve played a good 300 hours of this game; I have my core team setups, and I’ve figured out how to do some great chain attacks--but building the chain meter up enough to topple lock, the main technique against Superbosses? I’m miserable at it. And I didn’t have the patience to practice and level grind enough to even try to face one of those Superbosses, let alone the Avalanche Abaasy.

What you should do on Demon King Dragonia? Have Riki use Yoink! or save right before battling him until you get the item you need.

In the end, I gave up. I completed ALMOST EVERY QUEST in the game, I was that close--until I really blew it on “Defend Colony 6--Demon.”

Okay, so you want to complete every quest possible?

Write down every single quest, even if it’s just the title and giver. EVERY ONE. Do your research.

You’re obviously going to run across Mutually Exclusive (EXCL) quests. Pick out in advance the quest you’ll take.

If a quest has multiple routes depending on the objective completed, pick the route in advance.

Mark quests that expire and when they expire. Mark surprise quests.

Write down when certain quests unlock and at what area level they unlock.

Talk to every NPC.

And finally...

Mark the quests you’ve accepted/completed!!

This is my set-up. Since I use a program called Scrivener to write, I used it to keep track of my quests. I was able to organize everything into folders and color-mark everything. Now, currently, as I’m restarting my attempt to complete all quests, the Collectopaedia, the Affinity Chart, and Colony 6 in a new save file, nothing is actually color-coded, but if anyone is interested, I’ll mark them all to show how it looks.

This is just one way of going about this. There are a ton of other programs and text edit documents that can gather all the quest data in one place--this is just one way! :)

In the end, my playthrough was about 150-something hours before I finally threw in the towel and fought the (impatiently waiting *cackles*) Zanza.