Tales of Xillia 2 liveblog!

[everdistant]

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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[everdistant]

OKAY WE START RIGHT OFF IN A BATTLE. Against some guy whose upper half is shadowed, and uses twin swords like Ludger...

No HP bars, or menu or any interface at all. You can move and use basic attacks until a cutscene takes over.

Shadowed figure: Heh... The same movement. We are brothers, after all. However--! /manual fight resumes for a bit to let you get a feel for it; there's a side step like Graces! Also the battle music is pretty awesome <3

Shadowed figure: [couldn't make it out bc sfx]
Ludger: /takes a wild swing with his sword that the figure easily ducks under
Shadowed figure: People are predictable/easy to read/etc.

He then says something about destroying/crushing the world, history is repeating and other stuff that is hard for me to catch because it's during battle :|

[everdistant]

Shadow dude uses a move with a red ! above his head, which meant in Xilla that a mystic arte was coming, so I try to dodge the sucker while he keeps coming at me with it, but he breaks my guard and connects, leading into another cutscene with Ludger painfully getting up from the ground and just barely blocking a sudden attack from the dude.

Shadowed figure: A choice is necessary! A choice between yourself, the world, everything you have! [no text here]If it's you, it can be done!

Then he uses his Mystic Arte while asking Ludger to make his choice, and Ludger screams out in pain.

White screen and title, get.

[everdistant]

Ludger suddenly wakes up in bed, his fat cat Lulu next to him. I want it...

Lulu meows, getting Ludger's attention and he spots the clock, grabs it and makes a noise that pretty much says he's late and he dashes out.

White screen with Chapter 1 on it!