User blog comment:MrSolomon/Poll: When will you play Chapter 3?/@comment-5299683-20130719001432/@comment-5299683-20130719034956

Not entirely. His Readme mentions a special trick you can do to get around that. But it can screw the game up on rare occassions. I never had a problem with the save points he provided. As long as I can save before and after a battle, I'm made in the shade.

The other thing to keep in mind is that you don't have to go far to get Valkyrie, Ariel and Professor Seaweed. You can snag all three of them in the span of a half hour and walk away a winner.

But as I pointed out in the Sidestory's page, the included nscript is Cecil's nscript. Meaning some of the Sidestories that are on this page may not work. So I dunno. Maybe there is an advantage to waiting. To each his own.