320 xenoblade - updating collectopaedia page for eryth sea

Dear Readers,

Haven't looked at this thing in a while. I opened the Eryth Sea page and confirmed what I found.

The only thing I didn't find was the second one on the Nature line. Not sure what it is or where it is.

319 xenoblade - making sonia and liliana happy again with memories of their late husband and father

Dear Readers,

Now that we had defeated the Gentle Rodriguez, there was nothing keeping us from getting the item behind it that we needed for a quest.

This quest was the precious item for Sonia. It was a message in a bottle from her late husband. Not sure how it ended up in a place like this cave with a huge frog guarding it. Or at least, I don't remember. It's been so long since I did anything with this quest.

I showed it to the daughter Liliana first and it was just a recipe for cabbage parcels. She said it would remind Sonia of the father anyway so she asked me to show it to her.

I showed it to Sonia and it sparked a memory of her late husband proposing to her. He said he wanted to eat her cabbage parcels everyday, so she wrote out the recipe for him. He then got on one knee and said it was his way of proposing to her, calling her a silly nincompoop! She was charmed with the memory.

Next, I had to return to Liliana to tell her and she was very happy that it reminded Sonia of Liliana's late father. The affinity chart entry changed and it was a "Happy family" link between mother and daughter with a green smiley instead of the red frowny face. Nice happy ending to this little side story.

I chatted with Liliana and Sonia afterwards. Sonia was surprised Liliana was worried for her sake and Liliana talked about her father being one of the stars in the sky, watching over her and her family always until the day they die too. She would look out her window at night at her father up in the stars. Aw....

That gave me a nice sentimental feeling! I'm glad I was able to enjoy something else about this game again!

Now, I must look up cabbage parcels... They must be very good, right?

318 xenoblade - finally defeating the gentle rodriguez!

Dear Readers,

Since we were in the area, my thoughts went back all the way to the Gentle Rodriguez, the massive frog lurking on the northern end of Agora Shore in a cave. We were finally stronger than it! I thought, why not kick its butt now?

And we did! We marched all the way up there, picked off the other smaller frog enemies in the area before picking a fight with the massive Gentle Rodriguez.

It was in a pretty tight spot so it wasn't easy getting side and rear hits while adjusting the camera. I even lost consciousness at one point but Reyn helped me up. I did my best to keep everyone healthy and safe while landing lots of my own hits on the creature. We eventually defeated it, accomplishing what we couldn't near the start of the game. It's always a nice thing when that happens!

317 xenoblade - hunting the lakebed orthlus

Dear Readers,

Now to hunt this Lakebed Orthlus.

We lost a couple of times but we eventually defeated it. It was pretty fun to topple the creature, being a turtle and all, as it would flip onto its back. The visual of the big turtle on its back was pretty satisfying.

I got in as many side and back hits as I could while keeping people alive, shattering my visions and changing the future. Amusingly, one of my visions had Reyn getting an attack that completely missed him. During the chain attacks I made good use of Sharla's healing abilities.

We eventually whittled down the creature's to defeat and got the Orthlus Liver we needed for the quest in Alcamoth.

316 xenoblade - researching the lakebed orthlus from colony 9

Dear Readers,

Now that I've that nonsense with the maps sorted out, I'm gonna research how to get Orthlus' Liver on Agora Shore in Colony 9. All for a quest of course.

I have to defeat the Lakebed Orthlus, which is found on the Agora Shore at that point jutting out into the water.

We warped all the way there, swam all the way there and spotted it, this big turtle thing.

315 xenoblade - the two methods of bringing up the map for fast travel

Dear Readers,

Today I learned how to use fast travel to any previous point in the game and not just in the same map. This is a pretty big thing because the way I was doing it before was a massive pain.

Up until now I've been using the select button to access maps. I didn't bother with the Area Maps option in the X menu. I didn't even look at the menu properly.

Pressing the SELECT or minus button brings up the current area map only, whereas choosing the Area Maps option in the X menu gives you access to all the maps you've seen so far and you can warp to any previously visited area in any previously visited map even if you're in a different map.

Throughout the game it's been pretty annoying the way I've been doing it, because I've been warping to the start and end of areas in order to get to a different map, but now that I'm in Eryth Sea, a place that has no obvious entrance area, I can't use this method anymore. This made me believe I was stranded here until some story point in the game told me otherwise.

Now that I know this isn't the case, over 120 hours in to this game, I'm making this blog post to address this point alone. There are two ways of accessing the map. I've been using the more limited way and it's left me annoyed and bored, like many other things in this game.

Anyway, this'll mean I can go back to doing quests in previous areas too, and I can develop Colony 6 more.

314 xenoblade - gathering glossy grady fans from lunar gradys

Dear Readers,

We went to Latael Shore to fight more Lunar Gradys but they only dropped rotten meat for some reason. It was also funny how none of us could reach it besides Sharla with her gun.

After we ran out of them to hunt, we went back to Sleeping Dragon Isle, this time hopping off the northern point of Hovering Reef 7, which was much closer to it than Central Seal Island. Should've done this the last time but ah well.

We reached the island and fought the lone Lunar Grady again that respawned. This time we got the material we needed to finish the quest.