So... Looking for opinions. I am on Ch.12, is it better to finish every available quest before or after ? I'm wondering if the BIG REVEAL changes the way you look at the rest of the world for the rest of the game or if its better to not know until the last possible moments of what is in Ch.12?
It definitely changes the context of how you view certain quests in some pretty major ways. There's a lot of big info laid out, especially in a post-credits scene, so stick around (the credits aren't long, no Ubisofting from Monolithsoft). I feel like I did just enough side stuff before Ch 12 to see the before/after.
I had opted to wrap up the storyline fairly quick once I hit chapter 10 and I think it worked out well. The impending sense of doom that sorta kicks in around there made side quests feel a little..out of place. Like the world is ending soon but hey lets go help this Nopon with her hair recovery scheme (granted that was a quest I did post-game). After finishing 12, the big crisis the game built up has resolved, and the side quests and smaller crisis' feel a little more applicable - the relative calm after the storm. With what you learn in 12, many of them take on interesting overtones that you probably wouldn't think of for quests you already finished.
As for music, I actually really like the
Cauldros Daytime theme, especially with good bass, narrowly beating out the Primorida Daytime theme. Flight song I really enjoy even if it keeps interrupting itself. Sucky part about Cauldros theme is you don't get to hear it uninterrupted much. Unless you really put off the Flight module you end up tooling around Cauldros in the air or in battle the vast majority of the time, and the zone is barely touched in the main storyline.
