Trivia / Pandora's Tower

aka: Pandoras Tower Until I Return To Your Side

• Bad Export for You: The North American version (both for the Wii and the Wii U re-release) has a major Game-Breaking Bug involving the inability to go inside the 11th & 12th towers. This doesn't happen in any other version of the game. This manifests in two ways: the inability to go inside these towers after the 13th and final tower has been opened, and the inability to do so even before completing said towers. There are solutions for both scenarios. For the former, there's a way around this through the use of a Shard of Divinity.^{To wit...} Choose Tower 13 from the stage select menu, then enter one of the doors leading to the Tower 13 outer wall staircase, and then use a Shard of Divinity to teleport back to the Observatory. From there, Towers 11 & 12 should now be accessible from the stage select menu without any issues, but this will have to be repeated after beating the game and replaying a past chapter. For the latter, you just need to give the game ample time to load the area.^{Specifically...} When resuming the playthrough, don't hastily choose either tower. Wait around 7 seconds after the tower list appears, and then another 7 seconds before confirming the entry. In case the scene where Elena appears and tells Aeron to take care, don't skip the cutscene. With all this waiting, there will be enough time for the game to properly load these two towers.
• Late Export for You: The game was one of the targets of Operation Rainfall which was a fan campaign to get a series of JRPGs released for North American audiences (the other two being Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and The Last Story). For a while, it seemed as though this game wasn't coming to America at all, as by 2012 it became available in Japan and Europe with nary a word about a US release. Then XSEED came through in the clutch, but it would end up releasing several months after Nintendo released the Wii U. Later on, Nintendo themselves would re-release this version digitally for the Wii U eShop in 2015, with XSEED having no involvement.
• Network to the Rescue: XSEED Games. Because of the publishing success of The Last Story, which quickly became their best-selling game at the time, they went and got the North American publishing rights to Pandora's Tower, the final game in the original set of three games wanted by Operation Rainfall.

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