OK, so I did play some last night, but it was just finishing off the third tier of Colony 6 and then going through a couple of gates in Sword Valley before I got too tired. I wanted to wait until I actually did something substantial before doing an update, and boy was there just something substantial I just witnessed.
Shulk did a cool thing for once. Sort of, anyway, but I mean AT LEAST HE'S THINKING ABOUT THINGS THIS IS WHAT I WANTED. I don't know what saving Mumkhar is going to do in accomplishing his goal of learning about the Homs-in-Mechon outbreak. It's not like Mumkhar would've ever told him why, but again, he's fucking talking through his feelings and goals like he's, I dunno, traveling with a group of people he trusts, for once. Hallelujah.
And then as if the game decided I was too happy with where things were going, Shulk gets a vision of Fiora dying again and like a god damn nincompoop, tries to hide that fact from the others.
Why, Xenoblade, why?
