#fiora/melia (where they keep talking around shulk while connecting personally)

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back from a quick skim thru the tags of my main and wow you people really dont like sharla huh? unfortunate bc its prompted me to share opinions

for me my faves are melia > sharla > reyn > riki > fiora > shulk > dunban

and most played are sharla > dunban > melia > reyn > shulk > fiora > riki

go-to party was sharla+reyn+fiora, or melia+dunban+riki. sorry shulk but i didnt really play u once u got dunban…

and as stated in my original post i cheered and clapped every time reyn and sharla interacted and the MOMENT i got that scene outside colony 6 with melia and fiora i had my whole perspective on the game changed. like idk. reyn’s really what sharla needs (SOOO MUCH BETTER FOR HER THAN HER STUPID DEAD FIANCÉ) and sharla’s opposing approach to things really helps to balance reyn out. meanwhile i am constantly thinking about melia’s admiration for fiora’s strength and fiora’s fondness for melia. forget about shulk. run away together.

i think the story was really great… i dont want to get into too many spoilers but i will say knowing NOTHING about the game going in was great. i didnt know any characters besides blond guy with an energy sword. didnt know anything about the game’s world bc the ppl i follow who post abt xenoblade just talk abt the xbc2 polycule or the catgirls or the nonbinary character and how good the xbc3 dlc was.

anyways i LOVED the shifting scope of antagonists. every plot twist felt rewarding, lightly foreshadowed, and thrilling. the soundtrack ruled. i <3 games with 200 achievements and 480 quests and i <3 putting 150 hours into a game. i will have more coherent thoughts on this once i sleep on it and check out the dlc.

only negatives as far as im concerned were the running around for HOURS trying to get rare collectables, ugly armour, vanea’s design below the neck, a handful of npcs, art manuals' low drop chance, and the goddamn impossible archsage challenges. i do think fiora's amount of character development was stunted by the desire to make her a romantic focus, and that sharla deserved better than having her lategame scenes glossed over without being addressed. otherwise im quite pleased with reyn, melia, riki, and shulk's development.

finished xenoblade 1 btw. amazing plot and character development imo. peak jrpg final fight, even if i was so overlevelled that it was laughably easy. meliora nation fucking lost 😞 but shareyn nation stayed strong 💪. im like idk 98% complete or smth bc i simply do not have it in me to grind for those remaining art books/burst affinities/trades. perhaps i shall finish those last 16 achievements later the week