Ryan's Submissions v2.0

[Ryan914]

Yeah, it's for near death. However the series did this ever since the NES release Kaijuu Mongatari (Shell Monsters/Beast Story)

I had to play through this game a total of 2 times to get the summon boss sprites (Fat Badger and Vampire specifically) because of the damned Time Ruins which can only be accessed at a certain time of the day: The game has a built in clock, when you set it to the current time of day when you start a file, the time will remain set and you can't change it like in some other games with a built in clock. The only option is to delete the save file.

You can access the sundial portion of the ruins at anytime, but you can't actually go in them until a specific time (Can be accessed in both AM and PM hours) and at a specific location (5 ruins throughout the land and only some will appear after the halfway point because they are sunken underwater in the first half of the game), and you have to touch the number stones on the ruins in a specific order or in a certain direction, it's really finicky about what you have to do to get the summon spells

And you can't even get the Summon spells without a certain character which you can miss early on in the game (You can get him at anytime, but it's hard to find him without a walkthrough.)