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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In a cave now, and three guys are standing about; two in uniform and mask, one in glasses, dressed sharply and looking at a pocket watch. Ludger comes running in, and glasses guy says he's all worked up, and asks how he can hope to become an agent of Clanspia Corp.

IT'S THE SAME VOICE AND FIGURE AS THE SHADOW DUDE. I guess his murderous brother.

Anyways, Ludger just glares him, and we're given a choice! We can pick either "I understand, Julius" or "I understand, Nii-san".

...NII-SAN IT IS. Julius says no "nii-san"s today though, he's technically Ludger's boss at the moment so it's unprofessional, especially for a company like Clanspia. Ludger nods, but then looks shocked and we're given another choice when Julius asks what's wrong; "Nii-san, have you had nightmares with me in them?" or "Nothing".

The former gives us Julius getting confused at that, but then he lightens up and says something along the lines of it's not a nightmare, but his daily life teasingly. He then urges Ludger to follow along.

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So we in a tunnel under construction that leads from the city Triglav, and the job is to clear out monsters, k. Julius hands Ludger dual swords, and he takes and handles them easily.

Julius: Heh... The same movement. We are brothers, after all.

Ludger looks uncomfortable at that, but Julius continues, giving him the instructions from head office before putting a hand on his shoulder.

Julius: Well, team leader is your brother, so no worries about dying today.

But, something lands next to the group and Julius says no time to be all brotherly. Battle start!

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eeeeeeee last game's final dungeon music that I love

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cell phones are called ghs here.

k

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welp going to be level grinding for a while >3>

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...or not, since they don't respawn and we're called back once all are defeated orz

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so we go back to Julius, a woman nearby screams since a monster has cornered her and we get a choice between "Let's help her, Nii-san!" and 'Go help her'.

I've decided I'm going to be fixated on Nii-san this playthrough, okay. So first one it is. But Julius is a prick who says it's none of our business, and we have a set job to do and have to move on the next area. Ludger is conflicted, and Julius asks what he'll do. Ludger hesitates, and the monster leaps at him next, knocking his swords away, but before it can take a bite, Julius kills it with his own swords. As he turns away from Ludger, he looks disappointed.

Julius: You couldn't decide on a choice... I guess, after all, you're-- [turns back] Ludger Will Kresnik. You're useless.

Ludger looks a little heartbroken.

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ANIME CUTSCENE TIME! With a little girl running away from men shooting at her ;; Some guy in black and in a mask that covers all but one eye is apparently her papa. And he's pretty badass.

And uses dual swords just the same as Ludger and Julius. 8|a

He hands the girl, Elle, a watch same as what Julius has only silver. He tells her to go to Triglav, and then from there find her way to the land of Canaan, where wishes are granted. He tells her to do her best no matter how scary or hard it gets >: She then runs away on her own, while "Victor" gets shot to death...apparently. The pursuit complaints that girl got away, but one says that this guy is the "key" so it's fine. Meanwhile, Victor's body spasms and the bullets fall out of him... and gets up looking like some kind of monster .___.