The Seitengrat! What, never heard of it? It's only an obscure German word related to mountains that for no reason whatsoever made its way onto an even more obscure weapon. Kinda like the Trango Tower.Originally Posted by Formalhaut
The Seiten-what?
And it's so smurfing dumb to obtain.Q. There are invisible items called the Seitengrad and the Gendarme; those names are also unusual.
Ito: Those are both connected to mountain climbing. When we first started making the International version, I was really interested in mountains. I wanted to use interesting names, and at first I considered the two routes to Mt. Oku-Hodaka (the third-tallest mountain in Japan; in the Hida mountain range). Other mountain climbers might not want to hear this, but in the future, you'll probably get the weapon if you search for Seitengrad on the internet. But if someone plays the game, and then looks for Seitengrad and gets a picture of the mountain, that might inspire them to become a mountain climber. Maybe I can increase the number of mountain buffs [this way]. ^_^;
(Source: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/en...nia.190722331/)Q. In the original, there were treasures that made the strongest spear disappear if you took them. IZJS doesn't have anything like that, does it?
Ito: It doesn't; we had other ideas we wanted to try. This time, there's a treasure on the float deck of the airship that appears 1% of the time, and is a Seitengrad 0.01% of the time. And since you can't see the treasure, you only know it's there if you actually walk over there and bump into it. If you actually get the Seitengrad, an arrow will appear in the sky in the Cerobi Steppe [on the Old Elanise Road; it's suspended a few feet in the air --ed.]. I want the really serious players to take on the challenge and find this arrow.
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