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One of many issues that makes Suikoden II so broadly beloved is that it’s a wealthy, complicated recreation. There’s plenty of content material to get pleasure from all through the sport – however one specific quest is unmarked, fully hidden, and moderately troublesome to finish: Clive’s Quest.

Being unmarked, the hunt doesn’t have an official title, however in fan nomenclature it has come to be referred to after the character central to it. On this web page, we clarify how the Clive Quest works, tips on how to recruit Clive, and tips on how to beat the hunt – both naturally, or with just a little little bit of dishonest. We additionally clarify the rewards, simply in case you determine it isn’t price pursuing this weirdly esoteric quest in any respect.

How Clive’s Quest & its Time Restrict Works in Suikoden 2

Clive’s Quest primarily boils down to at least one idea: this can be a time trial problem. Within the pantheon of RPG aspect quests, it most jogs my memory of the notorious Excalibur II aspect quest over in Closing Fantasy IX, which challenged you to complete many of the recreation in a really brief time-frame certainly. The identical applies to Clive’s storyline in Suikoden II.

In an effort to full the Clive Quest, you’ll principally want to finish the lion’s share of the sport in simply 20 hours. 

This isn’t very lengthy in any respect, particularly in the event you’re being a completionist and following our Suikoden II Walkthrough. Because of this, if you wish to see this storyline play out you’ll must drop plenty of the sport, rush previous occasions, skip issues together with missable recruitable characters, and so forth. Having much less time to grind additionally makes fight more difficult, in fact.

Because of all of this, we wouldn’t suggest tackling Clive’s Quest in a primary play-through until you might be enjoying the brand new Suikoden II HD Remaster, which has a technique to cheat this quest which makes it straightforward to do on a primary run. Extra on that in a second.

Clive’s Quest Rewards

The reality is, Clive’s Quest doesn’t actually have any conventional RPG rewards – there’s no shiny new weapon or stack of money on the finish of all of it. All you actually get are scenes and story – cutscenes that reveal background data on Clive and a handful of different characters, revealing some truths about occasions that have been teased even within the first Suikoden.

For those who’re enjoying the brand new Suikoden II HD Remaster, there’s a secondary reward: an achievement. Titled ‘The Howling Voice Guild’, this secret achievement pops particularly for finishing Clive’s hidden quest.

The related achievement is price 30 Gamerscore on Xbox, and is a Silver Trophy on PlayStation.

Dishonest Clive’s Quest in Suikoden 2 HD

For those who’re enjoying the most recent model of Suikoden 2, there’s a means constructed into the sport to cheese Clive’s quest. Don’t fear, we gained’t inform anybody in the event you don’t…

Time-sensitive manners in Suikoden 2 are all managed by what the sport calls the ‘occasion timer’, which is principally an inner clock the sport makes use of to maintain observe of how a lot time has handed in-world. That is what tracks in the event you’re too gradual for Clive – however within the HD Remaster, you may flip the occasion timer off.

To do that, go to the Settings Menu – there’s an possibility that’s fairly actually known as ‘Cease the occasion timer’. Flick this to On and also you principally disable the timer you’re racing towards for Clive’s quest. This implies you may take it at a leisurely tempo, observe our step-by-step Suikoden 2 walkthrough, and go for a 100% save.

As a word, in our testing, different occasions that require a while to move resembling cook-offs or Mukumuku’s buddies seem to hold on and performance as regular even with the timer disabled. Although in the event you encounter any unusual points with quests not progressing, it might not harm to allow the timer once more quickly.

Clive’s Quest Walkthrough

In an effort to full Clive’s Quest, you’ll have to progress the story in Suikoden briskly, and just be sure you see a number of scenes peppered all through the sport that advance Clive’s hidden sideplot. 

The search in the end consists of eight occasions – it is advisable set off all of them earlier than heading into the ultimate showdown on the finish of the sport with the intention to see the entire scenes the hunt has to supply – after which bonus or modified scenes within the recreation’s ending. 

Moreover, every step has a timer connected to it – in the event you don’t attain every new stage rapidly sufficient, you’ll fail the hunt.

Scene 1: Assembly Clive & Elza in Muse

As detailed in our Suikoden II Character Recruitment Information, this can be a missable occasion that’s important for recruiting Clive, and in flip important for this quest.

Whenever you arrive in Muse after the White Deer Inn occasions, head north-east to seek out Elza. Discuss to Elza, who asks you to carry on to one thing for her. Agree, and also you’ll meet Clive.

As you allow Muse, you’ll want to provide the packages again. Some occasions play out, and that’s that… for now.

The timer begins from the beginning of the sport, not right here, so it is advisable attain this occasion as rapidly as you may, however there is no such thing as a ‘arduous’ time restrict but.

Scene 2: Clive’s Recruitment

Having now met him, you may later within the recreation recruit Clive. Ultimately the story could have you head to Lakewest City by way of boat. As quickly as you get your boat and take it out to sea, you’ll recruit Clive.

You will discover Clive close to the doorway level to South Window. All it is advisable do is chat to him to recruit him. Once more, you may solely recruit him as quickly as you will have a ship and have no less than as soon as taken it out to sea.

Once more, there’s no arduous time restrict for hitting this level, however you need to attempt to hit it by 5 hours in; definitely lower than six. 

Scene 3: The Letter

With him recruited, add Clive to your lively social gathering and go to the Lakewest Inn. The innkeep NPC will  give Clive a word, which he actually doesn’t like. The word factors to your subsequent vacation spot.

It’s good to attain this scene by the point the occasion timer hits 11 hours.

Scene 4: Forest Trickery

The primary time you enter Forest Village within the Greenhill space, take Clive right here – ideally earlier than heading to Greenhill. Whenever you enter the village he’ll instantly sense Elza’s presence if he’s in your lively social gathering.

Go north till you discover a clearing behind the Buying and selling Submit. There she is! Or is it? Not all is because it appears…

You will need to attain this scene by the point the occasion timer hits 13 hours.

Scene 5: Trying to find Clues

Go to any Inn across the Matilda Area – the closest will in fact be the one in Rockaxe itself – with Clive in your social gathering. 

You will need to hit this occasion by the point the occasion timer strikes 14 hours.

Scene 6: Gunslinging

After ending up in Matilda, earlier than returning to your Citadel, take the chance as a substitute to go to Radat City. Clive wants to stay in your social gathering, in fact.

Although you may see this scene afterward, in the event you advance the principle storyline any additional, you’ll be barred from seeing it for fairly a while – so do it proper after clearing out Matilda, however earlier than going again to your citadel.

Go into the Bar in Radat with Clive – and watch what goes down. It’s good to attain this occasion earlier than the occasion timer reaches 15 hours.

Scene 7: The Fact

After Rockaxe is freed late within the recreation, take Clive to Muse. On the high of Jowston Hill, one other fateful encounter takes place. 

Scene 8: Decision

You’ll be within the last stretch of the narrative at this level. Whenever you’re getting ready a military to take to L’Renouille, put Clive in your social gathering and delay the massive battle – as a substitute, take your social gathering – which ought to include your strongest characters – north-west, to Sajah Village.

The tip of the storyline performs out right here. Naturally, it is advisable hit this by the 20 hour mark.

With this, Clive’s quest is accomplished. Because of this, you’ll know extra about these characters, and even see some barely completely different variations to sure ending scenes. Congratulations on finishing the problem!

Tricks to Maintain in Thoughts

For those who’re racing the timer for actual, there’s a number of issues you need to do and keep in mind to have the perfect likelihood of constructing it:

• Maintain Clive with you. When you recruit him, you would possibly as nicely simply depart him in your social gathering – his presence is required for all scenes, and swapping issues round simply wastes time. 
• Arrange for velocity. Run from battles typically, hammer by means of dialogue, and run in all places. Don’t neglect to additionally set the textual content velocity to ‘Quick’ within the recreation settings.
• Solely discuss to NPCs essential for advancing the story. Our walkthrough is helpful for pinpointing these.
• If given the choice to listen to extra about one thing or not, at all times select to not – preserve issues shifting.
• For those who die, preserve going. Somewhat than reloading, keep on – you keep EXP earned for the reason that final time you saved. In actual fact, typically dying will be helpful on this sense.
• [This has been patched, and therefore doesn’t work, in the HD Remaster, only the original PS1 version] Use the ‘Matilda trick’. This bug allows you to push the gate on the Muse/Matilda checkpoint when it’s closed with the intention to drive your well past, earlier than the gate will get opened within the story. This allows you to battle highly effective enemies and degree up quick, which expedites the velocity of different battles. This does imply enduring some very troublesome fights, nevertheless – however that is the place dying intentionally can come in useful.