A FRESH START
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - https://youtu.be/3MYkNtO7NbY
A new player and a new world!
Introducing: Luke Silva! He's a character I made specifically for streaming, as sort of an alternate version of myself. Rather than an engineer, he's a biographer. He's done a few high-profile people (of his world; there's no corresponding people here) including Emilie Gaschler, because yes, he's in the same world as "What's a Dragon?". In fact, he wrote it there. Luke will be showing up on any future DS/3DS games, as well as other games like this one where I'd like to act as though it's my first playthrough, for whatever reason. For this one, it's a combination of "I barely remember it" and "I didn't like the story but want to give it a fair shake."
Unlike Xenoblade Chronicles (all three main ones, though this was only after the first one for original release), this game does not have a very strong main story, which you might have guessed from the fact that you get a character creator right at the start. It's not exclusive for good stories to be on set player characters, but it's rare to have both a good story and a character creator in the same game. Instead, the exploration is the main point of this game. And it's a spot that Monolithsoft excels! (Every open-world game that Nintendo has made lately has involved their team for exactly this reason.) I don't know if the original story of this game is unchanged, but I'd rather not let my opinions on that sour the playthrough, hence Luke. I do, however, remember main points of the story, and might be pointing clues out as we go. (There's a point where I say, "That's strange phrasing." What Elma said immediately prior is a story clue! Not end-of-game, just something we won't get fully revealed for a few chapters yet. But I figure that Luke might plausibly pick up on it on first playthrough, since he is a wordsmith.)
The story for Luke is that he's borrowing my stuff and there's a "reality capture device" that's serving to show him on stream. Because, well, the visual is not like something you get with a camera, after all. At present, it's two images that flip between them when I talk. I have paid the artist for a lot more images (and I have a keypad that should be able to hotkey between them) so I can show more emotions with him, but this was the bare minimum required in order to stream this way and it got done on May 1. (Stream was on May 2.) Good enough to start. I can add the rest as I go and say the reality capture device got upgraded.
Luke's world does not have most of the same cultural points as ours. It's a magical world, so things like complaining about only having humans for choices does make sense. He's a lizarkin (lizard person, of sorts) after all, and that species is not exactly rare, though, of course, this game was made in this world! He knows this and won't be complaining too much about things like that. I would have him entirely unfamiliar with video games, but Xenoblade X is not the sort of game you can just pick up as your first game ever, so it's better that I have him just be familiar with unnamed games. They'll just be… ones he won't ever stream, let's say. Mentioning Warhammer 40k would not be in-character but I couldn't let it go. I'm trying not to make references like that while playing as Luke.
