Xenoblade Chronicles and I became best friends almost ten years ago. Today is a class reunion and the nervousness is increasing whether I will still recognize my buddy from back then.
Class reunions are a mental challenge. Friends and enemies from back then all enjoyed more or less the same starting conditions. Behind the facade of the happy reunion, they are always a measure of what you have made of your life in direct comparison with your classmates. Who has children Who the chic house? Is the class clown a pastor? Do I still recognize the faces? And who looks outrageously good even today?
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While hereditary hair loss has now put an end to my hair style ideas and my spine has reached the resilience of an earthworm in the past ten years, this one classmate has achieved everything: Back then we were both overlooked by most, today at least he knows him almost every. And although we should both be subject to the same time lapse, Xenoblade Chronicles looks fantastic in 2020.
“You had something done!” I ask frankly, without a startled “No!” expected. In the course of the conversation, I learn that not only a slightly outdated interface has been sucked off the lower abdomen, but also that there is a really great special clinic in Turkey that brings the textures and resolution to a new state in a combination surgery. At half price!! Nervous laughter on my part, while my thoughts are on my nasolabial folds, which will look like two washed out valleys after a glacial melt in a few years.
Although the plastic surgeon did a great job of prettying up this role-playing game, which has always been pushed into the back rows in class photos in class Wii, the seams were worked on improperly. Not enough to speak of a malpractice, but enough to catch the eye of the other person. Maybe it’s because of my mole eyes, but Xenoblade Chronicles doesn’t look really sharp even today, despite the facelift. But even then he was not necessarily the kind of ornament he was. It hardly bothered me. Then as now, the inner values, well-written characters, a satisfying combat system and a twisty story are just more important to me.
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That was probably the reason why we became friends in 2011. Through Xenoblade’s older brother Baten Kaitos, whom I had known for a few years, I knew that the younger family sprout had enjoyed a good nursery. Her parents Monolith and Soft always went out of their way to give their offspring the most important things.
While my old buddy starts to sway about interventions that can only be recognized at second glance, something of because of practical additional functions within his harmony diagram and direct directions on the minimap – what we got lost at the time in search of secret places – I look at myself inconspicuously Space around and take a look at my other classmates. At a table are Wii Fit and Just Dance 3, gossiping and cackling as if they were still teenagers and had never been apart for a day. Next to them is a bowl of considerable size, which was filled with punch recently.
Not far from us is Metroid Prime Trilogy, who is typing on her cell phone to pretend not to overhear our conversation about cosmetic surgery. Until suddenly an unmistakable “There are remaster clinics in your area” squeals from your smartphone. It’s an exuberant evening and Xenoblade and I reminisce about the good old days. “Do you remember how much time we spent together in our youth? Over 300 hours! ” Of course I know, I had only spent so much time with Pokémon until then, but at that time I was hardly interested in anything else.
It was different with Xenoblade Chronicles. No matter how many moderately creative side quests he suggested to me in an inflationary way, I did them, simply because I was happy to be able to spend time with him in his world. I could say with a clear conscience that I had a friend who I knew inside out. With all its quirks. Above all, Xenoblades talked about it when we debated fights. Even today I can’t watch documentaries about wild armas without seeing his “We can definitely do thises!” and “Piece of Cakes!” ringing in the ears.
My buddy can obviously read my thoughts off my face, and assures me that he has worked on himself and, on request, less chatter today than Just Dance 3 vomits on the parquet floor with a fluttering sound. Wii Fit, no longer joking, advises her to take deep abdominal breaths. Some things never change. To distract from the ugly scene, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, with whom I was never really on the same wavelength, grabs a microphone and announces a little musical accompaniment by deafening feedback from the amplifier.
Nintendo has released a trailer to tell you everything about the Definitive Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles, which will be released on May 29th. Also included: game world, characters, fight, the new epilogue chapter and much more.
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One thing occurs to me: “Are you still playing in a band?” Xenoblade immediately affirms and postpones that their classics like “Gaur-Plane” and “You Will Know Our Names” would sound even better, but they would still play the old versions of their hits for fans on request.
We continue talking for a while, without any further incidents, until it is getting dark. I look at the clock and am appalled: Oh God, it’s Reyn time. “Already so late?!” We exchange numbers and vow not to let the contact fall asleep again. We want to meet again next week in peace. Xenoblade apparently wants to tell me a completely new story called “The Connected Future”, which he had kept secret from me almost ten years ago. I pick up my earthworm-like spine, we hug and say goodbye and leave. The class reunion could have been really worse.
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