[ToZ spoilers] so... you can actually kill the final boss early by bumping into him in one of the regular locations and it gives you a bad ending????

Tales of Zestiria English - Part 28: "Bad Ending" (O...

YEAH. My friend discovered that on accident and we were both going ??? And trying to figure out what was going on.

apparently what happens is that since they killed Heldalf but had no idea what is going on with Maotelus, the hellion!Maotelus has been freed and will destroy the world? or something

THAT makes sense yeah. :|a We thought it was a matter of killing Kittybeard wrong and he didn't stay dead but that makes way more sense.