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Nuvendil on 27 March 2018
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Asriel said:
Asriel said:
70 hours in and 7 chapters done, I'll be taking a break (probably for a few weeks at least) while I concentrate on Mario + Rabbids and my second playthrough of Breath of the Wild.

I thought the plot ramped up in chapter 7 and became quite interesting (even if every confrontation with the villains is predictable and repetitive), but chunks of the chapter gameplay-wise were a fairly boring slog. I love the game when it comes together, but it trips up over its own systems far more frequently than either Chronicles or X did. Undecided whether I'll power through and finish the main story when I go back to it, or take my time and go through side-quests and try and get more rare blades. I went through 70 common crystals and 8 rare crystals this weekend without a single new rare blade.

Odds are once I've done the main story I'm never going to have time to go back to Chronicles 2 (unless the story-driven DLC is particularly good), so I'm hoping a break means I'll be likelier to spend time doing more sidequests and unlocking rare blades when I go back to it.

77 hours in and I've done chapter 8 - I'm not sure what to do at this point! 

I mean the story has really ramped up with Amalthus revealing his true colours. I wish you spent more time doing story stuff in Morytha, but chapter 8 was really strong all in all. Right now with the Titans all at the World Tree, it would just completely break my immersion in the story if I sauntered off around the world doing various quests, instead of concentrating on the world-ending scenario currently playing out. I'm guessing I don't have much more to go now - maybe 2 to 5 hours if I just move on up the World Tree and onto Indol to confront Amalthus and then Jin and Malos.  

I have active side-quests I want to finish and more Blades to try and find. I have a couple of questions that people might be able to help with.

1) I've heard there's a 'point of no return' - is it easy to load your save up after finishing the main story and complete unfinished side quests?

2) NG+ adds new Blades - is it possible to get these in a normal playthrough, without starting NG+?

A problem for me is that I'm probably not going to have enough time to do a NG+ - but it is quite tempting given how you keep your Blades and Driver levels etc, and I guess if I took my time it would take me right up to the DLC release (I'll buy it if the story expansion is good). 

On top of Wyrd says, the game kinda accounts for what's happened.  Some new quests pop up related to those chapter 8 events and some things change visually in relation to that.