Use the Recipe Book, Fishing Notebook, inventory and current journal to track your collection. Keep a separate save before leaving a region. Classic SC totals, chest routes and book locations do not establish the remake’s collection requirements.
A note or screenshot method for unresolved entries
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Let the game’s notebooks lead
The official activities page describes the Recipe Book, occasional Attack Food from failed cooking, rod/bait fishing combinations and Fishing Notebook rewards. Exact full-game totals are not published there.
Collection
Keep in your notes
Books
Exact title and the place where you found it.
Recipes
Recipe name and ingredients shown in the Recipe Book.
Fish
Fishing spot, rod, bait and Fishing Notebook entry.
Chests and items
Map label, item name and any one-way route you encountered.
Achievements
Your platform’s displayed condition and actual unlock state.
An older SC completion total does not tell you what is missing from this remake save. Use the entries displayed in the current game; no complete remake collection total is provided here.
Before leaving a town, check shops, Guild requests and changed NPC dialogue.
Check the Recipe and Fishing Notebooks after a successful activity.
Note any book, chest or recipe you still want to find, with the current map and objective.
Keep a separate save before a chapter transition.
Compare the next region’s available routes and notebook entries before overwriting the return save.
A story save protects forward progress; a collection save gives you a return point for an optional search. For a demo continuation, retain the original trial save until you have checked the full-game import.
If an older guide disagrees with your current journal, follow the displayed objective and keep your return save while checking the difference.
Keep separate story and collection save slots.
Create a pre-departure save before a major transition.
Check your notebooks before choosing the next optional search.
Keep the return point when trying an uncertain route.
Current demo player reports ↗Player-reported Academy restriction and character-choice observations; not independently tested. Classic-game replies are excluded.Reported ·
Demo collection discussion ↗Books, recipes, fish and chest completion discussion. Uncorroborated counts and cave routes remain research leads.Reported ·
Current English remake walkthrough page ↗Current page still explicitly covers only the demo, with a September 30 edit date. No full-game totals, quests or boss values established by this source.Walkthrough ·
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