What Are You Playing?

[Nintex]

30+ hours now.

I stumbled on the most powerful sword in the game and I believe there is no other logical way to get this and it required doing a whole bunch of random things with very few hints.

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0. Pillaged the Black Dragons Black Plate what's that?

1. Forgot I already had the Smith Spirit and went to the Blacksmith only to hear them talk about their missing song Karsh

2. Put Karsh in my party and return there. Get a cutscene about how and why Karsh left

3. I returned to Viper Manor to find Norris to get his Level 7 tech, Norris is basically my main 2nd party member and I vaguely remember Norris from the Other World telling my Norris to come find him (which wouldn't have happened if they didn't have Norris in my party).

4. Walked around Viper Manor and noticed a new(?) treasure room. Opened the treasure box to find a letter to Kash telling him to come to The Island of the Damned

5. Go to the island with Kash, fight with Solt and Peppor (who accuse him of killing Dario), they give you a pendant without explanation

6. Go to the Forbidden Island for some reason (which was locked the entire game) to find Dario(?) sitting there.

7. Show Dario (who has A M N E S I A  the pendant, nothing happens

8. Remember the cutscene with Karsh, Riddel and Dario. Put Riddel in my party

9. Dario remembers turns on us being possesed with the Masasune devil sword

11. Dario kicks our asses with magic attacks that wipe us out in 1 hit

12. Can't leave the island

13. Do run away -> heal -> run away -> heal but nothing seems to work

14. Look through the item list, see the "Black Plate" 

15. Every Black Innate attack now heals instead of doing damage

16. Dario defeated, he opens an orphanage, I get the strongest weapon in the game

Look up a guide on the internet about the Black Plate, find out it's a 0.1% pillage chance item that is held only by the black dragon

Anyway the Story is really Xenoblade now or maybe Xenoblade is just Chrono Cross 2?

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Turns out everything is a struggle between ancient dragons and a computer sealing their power to prevent the world from progressing to its doomed(?) future. Lavos was the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and he 'transformed' primitive apes into humans. Lynx / Dark Serge was actually the physical form of this computer called FATE manipulating events and trying to prevent any sort of 'glitch' in the carefully managed system.

In other words, peak fiction.