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FINALLY, HEART-TO-HEARTS

 

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - https://youtu.be/s_tePClkRJE

 

Not my first Heart-to-Hearts, but the first ones I triggered intentionally.

 

After so many heart-to-hearts, it's plain to see that the intent of those is to show you what the BLADE members are like on their days off. Not that we ever get those in this game. Perhaps the developers thought it would be less interesting to have those, though a whole lot of games since this one originally released certainly had side activities like that. Alternatively, it might make the game feel like it was actually on a time limit. Since exploration is the point of the game style, they probably didn't want you to feel stressed about how long you were taking to do that.

 

I like the humorous interactions we get with some of the Normal Missions. That sort of thing doesn't tend to come up too often with Affinity Missions, which are generally more serious, but the Nopon getting a bug-bomb in a shipment and the reptile-fearing lady were fun things to find. I liked the stuff the Ma-non said after the lady said she didn't like reptiles. I almost wanted to go on a tangent―I am roleplaying as a lizarkin for the stream―but I also wanted to see the conversation and keep that in context. In-setting, lizarkin are basically just normal people. Depending on location, they're one of the most popular or least popular monster species, almost entirely dependent on how popular the nearest Dragon is. (Better Dragon = more lizarkin.) And there's an example in the book about treating people based on how they look, with lizarkin as the example "villain." Also, I like how the NLA government said, "Get with the program or get left behind." It was basically a hands-off decision that still made it clear who would win in a restraining order case. The lady could keep barring Ma-non, but she would lose her business to someone who did not do that. (Because the other person would make a lot more money.)

 

So far, I've had two Affinity Missions for Lao, and he hasn't shown up for either of them. I wonder when he'll next actually show his face? I seem to recall him being very important to the story, but I'm not quite sure whether that was him or someone else that I can't have in my party. Oh, and we finally got the Normal Missions that I spoke of earlier: Professor B! The time traveler was critical to my understanding of the setting back when I first played this game. Yes, we'll be seeing him again. I think he next shows up a little after we get a Skell license.