ENDGAME CLEANUP
Visions of Mana - https://youtu.be/47LPznioL_k
Two hours of side quests, and I cut out half of the stream.
This entire stream was side quests. I was expecting something like this for the end of the game, but not quite to this degree. I am very glad I have Flammie for instant transit from basically anywhere, because she sure got a lot of flying in today.
I know that you get stuff for corestones from the unique monsters, but I wasn't expecting that a lot of those would also have side quests tied to them—but mostly only for the high-level ones. I think the reason for that is the low-level ones will be conquered by a good explorer on first pass, but the player probably won't remember where all the high-level ones were for their endgame pass. This gives the player a reminder to go out and get those corestones. It's not on all of them, but it is on some, and I like it.
And on one final note about the side quests: I really like that there's story put to all of them. Not all of them are at the level of Behind the Scenery (which was amazing and made me feel like I was doing Xenoblade 2 Blade quests again), but even the "grab this" or "kill this" quick quests still had a reason to them, such as the boy wanting to know about Iffish. (Also, I had three quests so far where I was supposed to kill that specific grouping of Iffish. I wonder if I could have done them all at the same time?)