History Headscratchers / StarOceanTheLastHope

** Its all they have or the only weapon they can use easily or who knows, maybe only some of the hostile creatures of the planet have a defense against railguns? It is better have some kind of weapon then no weapon. Also they can always use the guns as a blunt object I guess.

** Faize is hilariously socially awkward. His first interaction with Welch consists of him backing away from Edge in terror over the equivalent of a joke, his first few private actions available with him to the player consist of him constantly apologizing, he has ''no'' idea how to deal with his interactions with [[{{Tsundere}} Lymle]], things like that. On top of that, [[spoiler: his mental and emotional conditioning were designed to suppress emotion to enhance rational thought]], which before the death of the nomads had been functioning perfectly well. And afterward, he had enough success controlling it that the only people who knew that something was '''critically'' wrong with him was Lymle. Basically, at the time, he thought he could handle it and probably thought it was too awkward to bring to anyone else if he had it under control. Note that he only ''really'' cracked upon learning of the [[spoiler: destruction of his homeworld and the near genocide of his people, on top of recently learning that the exploration base full of people he personally knew was destroyed and everyone in it was killed,]] and what really cracked the shell off the nut was [[spoiler: watching an evacuation craft full of possibly hundreds of thousands of Eldarian civilians, if not more, being blown to pieces right in front of him.]] By the time that happened, he was already in space and separated from the party, and the Missing Procedure got its mitts on him long before the the rest of the party on Aeos knew he had gone missing. ** TL;DR Basically, when he was able to receive help he didn't think he needed it, and when he was actually in critical need of the help of the party, he was way too far away and the BigBad got to him first.

** Faize is hilariously socially awkward. His first interaction with Welch consists of him backing away from Edge in terror over the equivalent of a joke, his first few private actions available with him to the player consist of him constantly apologizing, he has ''no'' idea how to deal with his interactions with [[{{Tsundere}} Lymle]], things like that. On top of that, [[spoiler: his mental and emotional conditioning were designed to suppress emotion to enhance rational thought]], which before the death of the nomads had been functioning perfectly well. And afterward, he had enough success controlling it that the only people who knew that something was '''critically'' wrong with him was Lymle. Basically, at the time, he thought he could handle it and probably thought it was too awkward to bring to anyone else if he had it under control. Note that he only ''really'' cracked upon learning of the [[spoiler: destruction of his homeworld and the near genocide of his people, on top of recently learning that the exploration base full of people he personally knew was destroyed and everyone in it was killed,]] and what really cracked the shell off the nut was [[spoiler: watching an evacuation craft full of possibly hundreds of thousands of Eldarian civilians, if not more, being blown to pieces right in front of him.]] By the time that happened, he was already in space and separated from the party, and the Missing Procedure got its mitts on him long before the the rest of the party on Aeos knew he had gone missing.

TL;DR Basically, when he was able to receive help he didn't think he needed it, and when he was actually in critical need of the help of the party he was way to far away to actually receive it before the BigBad got there first.

** Faize is hilariously socially awkward. His first interaction with Welch consists of him backing away from Edge in terror over the equivalent of a joke, his first few private actions available with him to the player consist of him constantly apologizing, he has ''no'' idea how to deal with his interactions with [[{{Tsundere}} Lymle]], things like that. On top of that, [[spoiler: his mental and emotional conditioning were designed to suppress emotion to enhance rational thought]], which before the death of the nomads had been functioning perfectly well. And afterward, he had enough success controlling it that the only people who knew that something was '''critically'' wrong with him was Lymle. Basically, at the time, he thought he could handle it and probably thought it was too awkward to bring to anyone else if he had it under control. Note that he only ''really'' cracked upon learning of the [[spoiler: destruction of his homeworld and the near genocide of his people, on top of recently learning that the exploration base full of people he personally knew was destroyed and everyone in it was killed,]] and what really cracked the shell off the nut was [[spoiler: watching an evacuation craft full of possibly hundreds of thousands of Eldarian civilians, if not more, being blown to pieces right in front of him.]]

** I wonder, if the game only needed an excuse for a sword-wielding protagonist, they didn't just do something similar to how they handled SO3, where the protagonist admits that he just plain likes swords, already knows how to use one because it's his hobby, and then never runs into a reason to use something else? Granted, his other reason was to blend in better without toting a gun. But does that really matter at the point of giant magnet spiders?

* Why is it, that after Reimi joins the party, the crew members who are guarding the area around the Calnus still holding Railguns, even though they're completely ineffective against the Monsters there?