DAWN OF A HERO
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - https://youtu.be/-zmtTr6eRXk
When I started the stream, I expected to finish that day, but I didn't expect it to take me over eight hours.
The first five hours of the stream were mainly that I wanted to finish Rise of the Blood Lobster. You might have been able to tell, but I was looking things up about that fight. It's level 60! It shouldn't have been that hard! But it was beyond difficult, and the hardest part was just staying alive, so that's why I was making elemental resistance augments. All the other completion was basically just grinding levels for that fight. Not that I'm complaining about getting to see more of the completion of the game, but the real concern was ending that mission.
The recommended level for the ending was 59. I was level 71. I figured I had it in the bag, but I needed every level I had. Well, until I got my Skell. The "Ares 90" is probably named for the approximate level it simulates, considering it took down level 90+ foes with ease, almost by itself, unless they had way too much HP. It was definitely cheating to have that in the battle against Void. I did about 90% of his health in a single blow, not even targeting one of the spears. By the way, the only reason I took down his attack/defense modules was because I couldn't figure out how to target the spears. You swap targets by tapping R, and you swap body parts by holding down the R button and tapping A or Y. I didn't realize the spears were body parts of Void, so my targeting went all over the place.
Since there were no credits after chapter 13, I didn't get to talk about that chapter during the credits. Do I like the ending to the game now? Absolutely! It's not like it came from nowhere; the hints at it were in the original story, but it just never came together. The finale here… I definitely should have known it would be more than an hour, but I really wanted to finish the game. This marks the second time I've gone way past my end point for a Xenoblade game, and a new record at that. (I believe the first was with the climax of Xenoblade 1, which went about an hour and a half past normal end. This was almost two and a half hours past the end point.) Not that I'm complaining. That was a fantastic ending. I really wish I had my crying emote for Luc done. (Yes, I do have other images for him on the way, but the artist is being abysmally slow about it. At least I won't be using him again for a while, so hopefully I'll have something more the next time he shows up.)
Also, we got reference to the Conduit! That item is what kicked off the entire Xenoblade series, when a certain someone else decided it would be a good idea to mess with it. That makes Xenoblade X a true entry in the Xenoblade series, in my eyes, anyway. It's missing some other critical parts that are usually in the story, but at least it's now canon.
