Fortunately, I blocked Xenoblade on socials quite a while ago. Basically as soon as we had a release date and Nintendo started putting out new trailers and tweets about it and so on. I want to go in as blind as possible, so putting actual story spoilers aside, I didn't even want to see intros to main characters or
anything. So yeah, thoroughly blocked. I've felt a bit like this game has no hype, lol, then I remember that I have every possible keyword banned already and that it can't show up on my feed anywhere, and that's why I never see it talked about. There are lots of hidden tweets for me even on non-Xenoblade posts by Nintendo and so on, when commenters are mentioning it. Absolutely nothing has been leaking through my wall, except that stupid 'mirrored' post of Nintendo's yesterday since it was literally written backwards, including the tags, but that contained a video, so I just didn't press 'play' and I have no idea what it was about. Gotta say, though...Nintendo is pretty bad for spoiling their own games!
Dunno if it'll do anything, but I went into the first Xenoblade while knowing nothing about it, and for me, it was so, so good. Knew a fair bit about XC2 going in, and didn't really like it much. No idea if knowing much about it had anything to do with that, but I figure...why take a chance? I'd probably find Rex to be a deeply uninteresting protagonist no matter what I knew or didn't know beforehand, but I may as well give myself the best chance of finding XC3 fresh and surprising.
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My game shipped last night, and it's going by Canada Post, which means it'll take a long time to get here, because Canada Post doesn't deliver on Saturdays, Sundays, or any regular or civic holiday. And Monday is one, so I won't be getting the game until
Tuesday. Canada Post is good for not making many mistakes, but they tend to be the slowest. Intelcom is much faster because they deliver ANY day, but they screw up a LOT. I mean, a crazy lot. Most notably they tend to deliver to unsafe spots even in the face of a safe one being right there, so it's like they have no common sense at all, but I've also had two packages of mine delivered to a neighbour, instead. (Fortunately my neighours are all really nice even when I don't know them and they walked the packages over to me themselves, as I've also had to do for some of them because: Intelcom.)
I don't like that Best Buy didn't plan better and send the game out in the morning instead of at 9PM at night, so that it'd have time to get to me before being held at a stand-still for three days by the weekend and a holiday, but I'd be a lot MORE upset if Intelcom botched the delivery entirely and gave my game to someone else, so just as well that Canada Post has it. Plus they'll actually, you know...
put it in my mailbox. No matter how small the package and how nicely it'd fit in the mailbox right there beside the door, Intelcom always just tosses packages on the ground in front of the door. *eye roll*
I have a really awesome mailbox, btw. It used to be for milk deliveries, back in the day where Canada still had milkmen who went around with their glass bottles and delivered them to houses. It's a door built right into the house...I don't even have to step outside to get the mail, just open the little hatch beside the door.
Well...
if they actually put the mail into the box, that is. Canada Post always does, but Intelcom hasn't done it even once.
I don't care about a physical copy of Digimon Survive, so I could get it right away...but not gonna. I'm not super enthused about it, so I may as well wait and see a bit more of its reception.