Tales of Xillia 2 liveblog!

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SO /b-brushes the dust off this

I got ambitious and determined to do a live blog of Tales of Xillia 2 even though my Japanese skills are very sad! This is it.

Naturally, spoilers for the game will be in these posts, and for the first Xillia as well. These will be unmarked in my comments, so if you're steering clear of them until the localization comes next year, stay out of these posts YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Those of you who don't care, come on in-- I will be posting a somewhat short summary of the first game, partly because no one has played it and knows what's happened or the characters involved, and because Xillia 2 gives players digest movies of the first's plot to review, so it's part of the game too.

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...wow there's a lot of blood O_O

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and Jude gives us the new version Lilial Orb, the Arrocell Orb. Yay skills and stat ups! And we get the Link/Link Artes tutorial /o/

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cutscene where elle decides to run after Jude and Ludger, saying they mustn't stop the train since she has to get to Canaan. This interests Bisley.

Jude and Ludger get to the car before the control room, and they duck down to talk over a plan of attack; Jude goes first, Ludger covers his back. But gunfire sounds, and they abandon that and just run up.

To find Julius. He's holding onto the watches, and asks why Ludger's here. Choice to ask Julius why HE'S here or ask what happened just now. Took the first, and Julius says it's his job.

Bisley walks in now and says he has quite the good subordinate here. As expected of one of his top Agents. Julius tells him enough with the compliments, but Bisley brings up that he has such a talented brother as well; Julius should be a kind brother and watch over him.

Julius says he plans to, and immediately swipes at Bisley with his sword, but Bisley evades every stroke easily before asking if it's alright to do this while in front of his younger brother. Julius flips back and pulls out the watches again-- Elle thinks the gold one is hers, and as she runs over to Julius, her gold watch reappears. This shocks both Juilus and Bisley, allowing a mook to sneak up and get ready to fire. Timed choice to save either Elle or Bisley, obviously chose Elle :| The mook fires around wildly, knocking the gold watch over to Elle and her watch glows again just as Ludger grabs her to pull her away and the gears of light from the watches surround Ludger, change part of his appearance. He suddenly has a spear and he lobs it right at the mook, impaling him to the wall, right before light fill the train and Jude, Elle and Ludger are sucked elsewhere.