[Editor's note: I used an NTSC copy of Pandora's Tower on a launch Wii unit. As I mention further down, it's very likely that this bug won't affect everybody. I merely want to play it safe and alert those people who will run into the same issue.]

Just my luck. I had just finished Pandora's Tower and posted my review, then I decided to hop back in and shoot for 100% completion. All of a sudden, I'm getting hit by a game-freezing bug in the same spot over and over again. It's fairly benign and won't corrupt your save file, but had I been aware of it before yesterday, it might have had a slight impact on my score.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit that the game did lock up a couple of times during my original playthrough, though they were freak occurrences and I didn't pay much mind. We've all had a game freeze on us for no apparent reason before, but then we reload and rarely if ever run into that problem again. No big deal.

However, the issue I'm talking about now will trigger 100% of the time. I've done a bit of research around the Net and couldn't find anyone else who has reported on it. Maybe it only affects the US build, or maybe my particular Wii is playing silly tricks on me. Either way, I feel it's important to inform you of the bug's nature and the method I've discovered to avoid it. The bug occurs late in the game, so I'll use non-spoiler language.