i wanna play 2 a lot, but i can't buy it right now

so i might play jude's side and/or play symphonia in the meantime

PLEASE PLAY JUDE'S SIDE

please

please!!!! please.

i love milla maxwell TO DEATH but i vastly prefer jude's side, partially because i'm not a fan of how they handled some things on milla's side

also there's a biiiiig chunk of character development on jude's side that you miss on milla's

amarcian: yeah like... i like milla but tbh i feel like i missed out on a LOT playing her side first?

you definitely did

amarcian: like i get the feeling you're meant to play jude's side before milla's and so there was a lot i was just. really confused about even after the game ended

i wish there was a note that explains that playing jude's side first is recommended. i seriously don't understand why there isn't because seeing it from jude's pov? explains a LOT more

yeah once you play jude's you'll be waaay way less confused

like a huge thing happens w/ alvin they don't show on milla's, leia and agria and presa and alvin all have major development, jude has major development

but you don't get to see anything bc milla is in the spirit world

amarcian: yeah or like... making it so you can only play milla after you've completed jude's side once

my favorite scene in the game is jude's side exclusive

amarcian: yeah like... that's covered a bit in a skit, but i still felt like i missed a lot playing milla's side first

amarcian: and by the time i realised how much i was actually missing by not playing jude's side first i couldn't be bothered starting the game over

ALSO like... i'm kinda disappointed in the latter parts of milla's storyline bc i don't think we really ever see her actually react to the fact that her life and her mission was based on a lie?

i don't blame you it's true

xillia my favorite game (actually, xillia 2 is, but yknow it wouldn't exist without xillia obviously) and i care about these characters immensely and it gets a lot of things right

but milla's development has its problems

especially on her side where they decided they needed to give her romantic feelings for jude

the writers specifically said there was originally no romance intended, but they wanted her to be more "feminine"

and then people wonder why i vehemently hate jude/milla

amarcian: ohhhh ughhhh really? that's really disappointing

amarcian: i was super worried at one point though that they were going to start really pushing the whole milla/jude/leia triangle and ughhhhh i'm just glad it didn't get any worse than it already was