>dropped item is on the ground plain as day so it seems like a simple quest at first
>need to stop on 10 of only 15 specific tiles in the entire game in order to get enough phone calls to return the item, many can be easily missed
>after that you have to initiate the calls yourself
>but you can only call them from the same general areas as the initial 10
>but you can't just call them from any of them, the game randomly decides on where you can call them from and will randomize it after each call
>which means you basically have to go to each place in order, check if you can call them, and move on to the next if you can't until you can
>have to do that 20 times in order to ride the ferris wheel
>have to do it again once per day in order to make them trade mons with you
>if you do it 20 times more you get a one frame glimpse of them wearing an idol outfit

I can understand things the player has to work for but genuinely who the fuck is going to be finding this stuff on their own without a guide? Post the most annoying to get/easy to miss content you know about