Self-sabotage and non-death Game Over's.

Have you ever played an RPG and thought something along the lines of "I wonder what would happen if I got rid of this super-important item?" or maybe were faced with making a vital decision and wanted to know if anything would happen if you chose an answer that was the total opposite of the 'correct' answer?

LifeWeaveR will now give you the chance to find out. Early into this blog I talked about how making certain choices wouldn't affect the games ending, only what happens BEFORE the ending. This is discussed in the post titled "Features".

These types of decisions are still present, but now so are ones that actually WILL affect it. I'd rather not go into detail about it but a good example is the part of the story where Ami is on the verge of saying "Screw this" and abandoning the quest. If you want to, you can make the decision to do just that. If you do so, the party will attempt to continue the journey without Ami but the members will all perish as a direct result, leading to a very un-satisfing Game Over.

There are other ways that you can prompt a Game Over besides that. If an item is absolutely critical to finishing the game and you decide to do something completely retarded like sell it, guess what? Game Over. You got rid of the item vital to the quest, and since you can't complete the game without it, that means you have royally screwed yourself and will receive a very un-satisfing Game Over.

If it's an item that is not game-breaking but still very important, and you decide to sell or toss it somewhere, then while you may not get a Game Over, you will certainly have made the game much more difficult than it had to be.

Edit: In reference to the above paragraph, here's a good example of what I'm talking about.

To reach the second FGM fragment, the party is required to go to the Alistine Ice Cavern. There, they discover that the entrance is buried in snow and must be excavated with a snow shovel. The mayor gives them his for free and remarks about how expensive it is to buy one.

If you so desire, you can actually go sell it for 5 coins. If you do, however, it's going to come back to bite you in the ass because the only other way to get one is buying one from the item shop at a price of 3000C.