Xenoblade Chronicles

My sister's playing Xenoblade now. Listening to her talk about it is entertaining (she didn't like Fiora and didn't expect what happened. The fact that Faces can talk surprised her. She hates Sharla's outfits.) so I'm really looking forward to her reactions to stuff later in the game.

I still think that Fiora is the weakest character in the game. I don't hate her, not by a long shot, but I like the other party members more.

I can't blame her. Sharla has the worst outfits in the game.

God yes. Some of the heavy armors are okay looking though.

Fiora's a bit one note. Seven's much better. Kind of agree, kind of disagree. The nameless Colony 9 NP Cs say a lot of interesting things about her, and her first skill branch quest follows that trend, but when it comes to her interactions with Shulk she's hardly there.

When I said "Fiora" I meant ALL of her, not just how she is at the start of the game.

I'm well aware. I think that Seven starts out better, but they never do any of the really interesting things with her they could have.

Yeah, Sharla does get shoved into some really poor outfits, to be honest. There's a worryingly large number that combine cleavage with spiky bits, too.

>implying sharla's the only one who suffers the shitty armor curse

she just gets some of the worst of it.

dunban's pretty much the only one with relatively consistantly decent outfits.

well, him and heropon riki.

i suppose melia comes out alright tbh but i mostly stuck to 1 or 2 outfits for her.

edited 26th May '15 1:17:52 PM by Tarsen

Top-tier heavy armor makes Melia look like a Queen dressed for war. Dunban, of course, is perfect in both everything and nothing. Even the ridiculous heavy armor designs. Especially the ridiculous heavy armor designs.

Holy shoot I just realized something.

The voice speaking in the intro of the game is not Shulk.

It's Zanza.

Yesterday I got Xenoblade Chronicles on the N 3 DS. I'M GOING BLIND, GUYS.

It is an excellent game. It's also basically all spoilers, so tread carefully among the spoiler tags

edited 26th May '15 3:36:33 PM by Pulse

I just saw a video explaining how to reach level 50 before you even get the Monado, via sequence breaking.

First, use an enemy knockback to get past the locked door in the cave.

Then, have one of your allies fight and die to a flying enemy with knockback in the new section of cave. Lure the enemy up to a hidden path, and have it knockback you up over a ledge.

The exploration experience sends your levels skyrocketing, and there's no enemies around to block your route, so you can get really powerful crystals as well. Pointless when you consider the NG+, but still entertaining.

This video, I assume.

All I can wonder is if Chuggaa knows about this.

No, actually. Mine was in Japanese. But it's the same stuff.

Yeah, that's it.

edited 2nd Jun '15 10:24:05 PM by Ekimmak

This one, then.

That's really interesting. It could be a useful tactic in any potential speed-runs of the game.

So, managed to get another two hours in today, and I gotta say, I really love one element in particular at the moment-

How Death Is a Slap on the Wrist. The only punishment is failure to progress, so it's not nearly as scary to experiment as it might be.

How's progress going, by the way? Still clearing up quests before Agniratha?

Well, in Agniratha, at any rate. But yeah, it's cleanup. I've been busy, so I don't want to get sucked into the story and then have to dangle for a while on it.

edited 2nd Jun '15 11:57:17 PM by Pulse

Hmm. Did you do the series of sidequests involving Red Pollen Orbs?

Partially. I ended up transporting them to their recipient in Frontier Village, and I assume there's something more either after that or as an alternative?

Yeah, there's some more stuff to do there. You'll definitely want to follow that quest chain through to the end- besides being hilarious, it also opens up access to a really great miniboss later on down the line.

You need to do some quests involving the workers at the Pollen Works, then the two quest lines converge.

It is finished. Chuggaconroy's Let's Play of Xenoblade Chronicles has reached its end. I highly recommend you watch it as it also contains a translation of a short story from the Japanese art book. It's quite nice and it answers a question I had never asked.

And so, for one last time, poor Melia!

What are Xenoblade speed-runs like? I assume there are ones for new games and new game+. How fast are they?