Xenoblade Chronicles

Mechanical Rhythm kazoo'd!

That was surprisingly really damn good.

I still prefer this:

I'm actually a big fan of iYakku's take on the main theme and Mechonis Field.

Gee, I sure wonder who this mysterious green faced Mechon was made from! All these flashbacks to Sharla's time with Gadolt are surely an odd coincidence and nothing more!

Of course they are.

What else would they be?

It's actually Juju in the machine.

How'd he learn to bilocate, then?

As an aside, having maximized Seven for Speed, I'm kinda stunned by how easily they take control of the battle. Nothing touches them, they get tons of auto-attacks in and as a direct result of the last bit they also can use Talent Arts like crazy.

No, clearly it's Vangarre in there.

It was obviously Bana the Nopon the whole time!

But I thought it was Gandhi!

edited 2nd May '15 10:50:34 PM by TheAirman

@Pulse: Seven is great. Try Haste, Double Attack and Agility weapon gems for maximum cheese.

Also, seriously consider skill linking Dunban's "heal damage when you crit" skill. One of Seven's skills turns every Double Attack into a crit, and there's Double Attack skills that can be linked fairly cheap.

Alright, wow.

The Central Factory is quite the area. It's technically nothing I've not seen before, but the scale makes everything really stark and impressive.

Huh. I'd have thought Mechonis Field would have been more surprising. Central Factory is basically a less-gigantic Mechonis Field in terms of appearance.

Mechonis Field doesn't have GIANT PISTONS.

It's also a lot less... Functional? There's lots of bits and bobs, sure, but just about everything is doing something in my new location, even the walkway decor.

True enough, I liked how dense it was.

I liked it a lot less a little later, while the Field still stands out. By the by, did you find the Refuge?

Oh, well now.

So, Zanza and Meyneth are the souls of the titans? And Zanza was the one who started this whole mess eons ago? Egil's making a little more sense now, even if he's still being a dick.

Are you in Agniratha now? If so, you're getting very close to the game's final major cutoff point.

Once you defeat the boss of Agniratha, it'll become very inconvenient to exit where you are and re-enter, so you'll want to finish it up first.

• All the Quests in Alcamoth and Agniratha expire.
• A few Fallen Arm quests that pertain to Mechonis Field and Agniratha expire. One is a pair of quests to find memory chips in Field and Agniratha, the other is a small chain of quests between a man on Digit 2 and a woman in the Machina Refuge.
• Mechonis Field, Central Factory, and Agniratha become inaccessible, aside from a brief revisit to Central Factory, where you'll explore a new section- if you were wondering why your map was incomplete, that's why.
• A very long chain of sidequests spanning Satorl Marsh, Frontier Village, and Alcamoth becomes unavailable. The final quest in this chain is "Destroying the City Trade", so if you've done that you're good. If not, it's a series of quests involving the starving Nopon in Satorl Marsh and Red Pollen Orbs in Frontier Village.

I've only just now gotten started on activating the four pillars around Agnirantha, and after falling to an Exterminator, I'm going to focus on those quests for a bit now and put the main story on hold until I'm better able to deal with 'em.

I suppose telling horror stories about all the times that party members have jumped in and turned a good cylinder into a poor gem is pointless, but damn. Melia can boost a crystal by 45 points at a time.

That function is just so melodramatic and awesome.

"TO you!"

"To me! Awesome!

"Alright! This is really min- THIS IS INCREDIBLE!"

edited 7th May '15 2:24:06 AM by Pulse

Now if only Melia would join in when I'm going for the long craft. When I have Riki and Sharla separating gems, Melia has to leap in and send something that was at a comfortable 60 all the way over the 100 line, but when Shulk and Reyn are going for mega heat gems, She's nowhere to be seen.

Maybe gems weren't meant to be that easy to craft, but that doesn't change it from being frustrating.

You Will Know Our Kazoos.

A good way to ensure you get cylinders instead of bad gems is to keep Reyn and Riki's affinity at yellow. They have pretty much the worst gem-crafting synergy like that, so they only boost qualities by a little bit.

And of course, save beforehand and reset if they get too zealous.