4/29/2023 0 Comments Tales of xillia 2 gald farming![]() It really takes some of the impact out of certain scenes to just hear Ludger sort of grunt and have to visualize the dialogue option you chose before the others start talking again. He has a few lines, and the voice acting for him is pretty good – so I wish they hadn’t hidden the ability to hear his voice behind a new game+. Ludger and Elle are the two main characters, and Ludger is a sadly silent protagonist. Each character is like this, and it makes for some rather interesting surprise discoveries as you come to know these characters. Leia clearly still has her crush on Jude, but she’s kind of given up on it and is trying to live her own life now as a reporter. Alvin is still a bit shady, but now he’s trying to go clean as a salesman (or as clean as a salesman has to be). Jude is still altruistic and a huge idealist, but now it’s tempered with his responsibility as a researcher and a doctor. The characters’ personalities are all close enough that you’ll recognize them, but they’ve matured enough that it really feels like time has passed. A Cast of New and OldĮvery character from Xillia returns to join Ludger and Elle, and you even get two of the first game’s antagonists as party members for Xillia 2. But by the end of the game, you really will hate her as much as you would a real collection agency. So it’s important that they do a good job with her and, although she is exceedingly annoying and they did make a few mistakes with when she calls you, I have to say they did. You’ll be interacting with Nova as much as, if not more than, the rest of your party members. I’m spending a lot of time on this subject, but it’s really one of the core aspects of the game. It was a nice change of pace, and it made her feel like a person – I even felt bad for her at a few points, which surprised me. There was one amusing example where you told her that someone had died and for the next few chapters of the story, she was making comments like ‘I don’t know how you can still see me as a friend after this…’ and ‘I’m sorry to bother you… but if I don’t get a payment I’ll get fired’ in stead of her normal perky cheerfulness. But she’s not without development, at a few points if you say the right thing to her, she’ll start getting upset and introspective. They’re perky, kind of funny, and annoying – exactly like what you’d expect her to be from your first conversation. They did do a fairly good job of writing Nova’s lines. I really wish they’d had her stop bothering you during critical scenes, just for the sake of the game’s flow. In specific, thanks to some hunting and quests, I had five times the gald they were asking for, so even making payments would’ve taken forever to get my gald low enough that she stopped bugging me. Fortunately, her calls didn’t take up actual time, but they really broke up the sense of urgency in that scene – and it’s quite easy to get well over the gald value they want you to pay. In one particular annoying example, you’re given a short time limit to save people on a ship, and every time you transition screens she’ll keep calling you if you haven’t paid her as much gald as she wants. ![]() It becomes really annoying, and it happens even during critical story sequences. Well, maybe not the latter – I don’t know that people actually have to go to the bathroom in JRPGs – but you get the point. And if you ever get more than 20% more than that, she’ll call you every time you enter a door, pick up a gald, fight an enemy, or take a shit. As a result, the bank always knows exactly how much gald – the world’s currency – you have… and damnit if you’re not paying them you’re doing it wrong! Nova, an old classmate of Ludger’s who just happens to be your point of contact with the bank that holds your 20 million gald debt, will call you the second you have enough to pay the amount they want. In this world, everyone’s finances are apparently handled through this global system with interface devices that double as cell phones known as GHS. Eventually you’re destroying dimensions, trying to track down pieces of an ancient ritual, and other crazy things… but it all starts with medical bills… ![]() Matters don’t stay that simple as Ludger’s brother becomes a wanted criminal and Ludger is tasked by a large corporation with tracking his brother down… and things just escalate from there. Set 1 year after the first Tales of Xillia, the sequel starts out as Ludger and Elle’s quest to pay off their horrendous medical bills after an unfortunate train incident leaves them injured.
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