During my playthrough of Phantasy Star III, which is in the third generation with Sean (Sheen?) I spent quite a bit of time in Divisia, trying to find the NPCs mentioned by the townspeople. According to them, they lived in the cave that has the sub parts, which I already had, but I could never find them. There was also a mention of someone living close to the town, but, after a while, I thought this could be text shared with another hero's adventure, and left as it is in this one, even if it does not apply.
I thought perhaps I should go on and get Laya's treasure, which people said was in Aridia.
I checked a graphical walkthrough very carefully, since I did not want to spoil anything for myself. There, I saw that the step after getting the sub parts was indeed going for Laya's treasure.
I said good bye to Divisia and headed to Aridia once more. My search for the "amazing whirlpool" southeast of Robotville started.
Of course, I could see there was no body of water at all in the southeast, but I journeyed there all the same. Fruitlessly. I even went south to see if there was something where the river reached the edge of the world, but nothing. I went west, thinking the text might be wrong, but the whirlpool was not there. I kept looking for anything weird in the map, thinking the whirlpool may me made of sand, perhaps, but I could not find it.
After two or three weeks (I did not search everyday, I just left it for later), I gave up. I would have to check the walkthrough for the location of the famed whirlpool.
Just to realize it was right outside of the town!
I mean, I know it would be kind of logical to think it was somewhere around there, and it definitely had to be by the river... But why then did they have to use the phrase "journey southeast"? It was only two steps away! Something like "look outside of town", or "search by the river", or even "immediately southeast" would have made it much better...
For something that is invisible on the map, their choice of words totally sent me on the wrong direction.

Did something like this happen to any of you?