Update 23: Sidequest Grinding II
In the time it took me to write up the last update, I left the game running and made enough KG to upgrade the explorer’s guild again. We are now making more KG per hour than the kingdom can actually hold, meaning 52KG is going to waste every hour.
Most of our buildings are locked from being upgraded until we reach level 2, so all we can really do at this point is push forward and grind it out.
Boddly’s final task is a skirmish battle. She won’t let us take it on without getting a third unit in our army, though.
This entire part of the game is something I kind of selectively forgot about.
If we hadn’t built the kitchen for Floyd already, this is where we’d be forced to do it.
Floyd works kind of like the chefs in I Am Setsuna - if we bring him enough ingredients, he can make dishes that give some negligible buffs for a period of time. Once he’s made a dish, we can then buy it rather than having to bring more ingredients to him.
The look on Floyd’s face tells me he knows damn well he’s screwing us. Thankfully, we have all the ingredients we need.
We then get Gao Jia for Evermore. His only synergy is with the barracks.
: “We have swordsmen and archers ready to deploy.”
We then get two more sidequests to grind. Let’s get right to that. Bai Gon is the closest to the casino, so we’ll go seek him out first.
Great, so we’re recruiting an old hobo by giving him three boar asses. What is it with people and asking us to kill shit for them?
Min Ti, on the other hand, is far more willing to join. All we need to do is bring her a single item, which is purchaseable at the general store both in Goldpaw and in Evermore. We actually have one right now, so this quest is already done.
This also rewards us with the grass-green thread we need for that other person, so we can get two sidequests done in one go. Min Ti’s unit is a gun-based unit.
Erm.. yeah, I think Evan’s a little young to own a sex dungeon.
Pi Chi’s primary purpose is being used in the armory. I took a break here to stick all the new people in the best slots I could find for them.
In particular, Pi Chi opens up a wide range of research at the armory that is extremely cost-efficient. By the time I was done here, I raised the kingdom’s income to about 5300KG an hour.
The Grimchillas that Bai Gon wanted us to kill spawn right outside of Goldpaw once you accept the quest. They’re nothing challenging, but I had to kill two groups to get the required amount.
We could go back to Boggly right now but.. hey, that’s a quest marker!
This is Fai Do, who is Bai Gon’s grandson. He’s an armorer, but won’t join us unless we give him some silver.. which we have none of right now. We can, however, get some potentially through kingdom management mode. I had just enough money to upgrade the mining camp to the point where it can give silver, and Tani is already working there anyway, so we’ll get it eventually.
We’ll come back for this one later.
Oh, and before I end this short update.. there’s one other thing I want to talk about. I think they added this in one of the patches that came out after the game released, but there’s now a “Citizen Log” with information about all of the people we’ve recruited for Evermore. I figured I’d show a few of these off in particular, and at the same time talk about why I hate this fucking game.
This is Roland’s profile. You’ll want to note the part at the end about him having a son Evan’s age.. and also the fact that this is the first place we can learn his last name (apart from a cutscene much later on). His son never becomes a plot point - but there is something I want to explain about that.
In the first game, there was a plot point about travelling between the isekai realm and the real one, and every person in the isekai realm having a real-world counterpart. In fact, the entire plot is set off by this: Oliver (the main character of Ni no Kuni 1) has his mother die and goes to the isekai realm with the express purpose of finding her isekai counterpart so he can revive her. The entire point of the first game is that death is a very permanent thing that cannot be reversed, even with the isekai realm’s magic.
I think you can see where the writers were probably going: Evan was supposed to be Roland’s son in the isekai world, hence why Roland didn’t want to leave. Why they got rid of this, I have no idea.
By the way, they never at any point bring up the whole real-world counterpart thing (they called it “soulmates” in the first game) in 2.
This is Tani’s. I mostly bring it up because I feel like they couldn’t have made her any more of a San ripoff if they tried.
Lofty’s.
Next time, we’ll finish Boggly’s quest and do a skirmish again, wishing we hadn’t.