The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress to a point it made me wonder none the less.

I understand BG3 might be a hard lock because the game abruptly comes to a close I am not going to get into the semantics. The only other soft locks I can think of are with Pokemon.


Shout out to the fan translation of Mizzurna Falls. An article on the ROMHacking.net website can be found here.

  • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Fallout 1. During the term to the Master there is a 200 second countdown.

    If you fooled up the speech check or want to do it differently and reload a save that was made after the countdown started then the countdown drops to 50 seconds. Making the fight impossible to do in time.

    • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I think you just helped me solve why I never finished it when I was 8 lol.

      I was at the ending but was never able to finish it before the countdown ended. Now I need to install the game again!