Tokyo Xanadu endgame neatness
Dec. 15th, 2018 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mikogalateaHere's something I'm rescuing from my Tumblr drafts for a change instead of a post I actually published! I would've posted this closer to the time I actually finished Tokyo Xanadu, but the game is so obscure that it would probably have been like squeeing into the void... =/
Anyway, this is something from around the final dungeon (not counting the epilogue or any eX+ content) that players might not know about, and I thought it was pretty nifty.
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So when you're going for the final dungeon, your party gets split into four pairs to take on a separate level each before coming back together for the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, and the default pairs are Sora+Yuuki, Shio+Mitsuki, Rion+Gorou and Kou+Asuka, right?
Those pairs can be mixed up however the player wants so long as Kou is in the fourth pair for plot reasons, and from what I can tell, each possible pair gets unique conversations before and after the midboss for the level they take on!
As an example, I put Rion and Yuuki together and got a particularly amusing little conversation between them after the midboss; I only saved a paraphrased version to my drafts, but it amounted to Rion saying something like "Hey, not bad for a cocky, egotistical kid!" and Yuuki responding with something like "Who're you calling cocky and egotistical?" These two only get a tiny handful of interactions in the whole game, optional or otherwise, but they always put a smile on my face and this was no exception.
(Incidentally, my other pairs were Asuka+Sora, Shio+Mitsuki left as-is, and Kou+Gorou. Oddly enough, Kou and Gorou didn't seem to get a unique interaction, though that may-or-may-not have been because I didn't do any of Gorou's friendship events in this playthrough...)
I'm curious as to what little conversations all the other possible combinations get! I'd still like to do another playthrough sometime, and I definitely plan to mix up the pairs again if and when I do!
Anyway, this is something from around the final dungeon (not counting the epilogue or any eX+ content) that players might not know about, and I thought it was pretty nifty.
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So when you're going for the final dungeon, your party gets split into four pairs to take on a separate level each before coming back together for the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, and the default pairs are Sora+Yuuki, Shio+Mitsuki, Rion+Gorou and Kou+Asuka, right?
Those pairs can be mixed up however the player wants so long as Kou is in the fourth pair for plot reasons, and from what I can tell, each possible pair gets unique conversations before and after the midboss for the level they take on!
As an example, I put Rion and Yuuki together and got a particularly amusing little conversation between them after the midboss; I only saved a paraphrased version to my drafts, but it amounted to Rion saying something like "Hey, not bad for a cocky, egotistical kid!" and Yuuki responding with something like "Who're you calling cocky and egotistical?" These two only get a tiny handful of interactions in the whole game, optional or otherwise, but they always put a smile on my face and this was no exception.
(Incidentally, my other pairs were Asuka+Sora, Shio+Mitsuki left as-is, and Kou+Gorou. Oddly enough, Kou and Gorou didn't seem to get a unique interaction, though that may-or-may-not have been because I didn't do any of Gorou's friendship events in this playthrough...)
I'm curious as to what little conversations all the other possible combinations get! I'd still like to do another playthrough sometime, and I definitely plan to mix up the pairs again if and when I do!
