I’m still playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2

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Normally, you improve your bond with your not-Pokemon by fighting alongside them, completing quests with them, and giving them gifts. I tried that over and over with two characters over the course of 80-odd hours of game time, but they never grew any more fond of me. Then I finally looked it up, and it turns out these two characters can only improve their bond by going to an out-of-the-way, previously closed location the game never told me had opened up. I have no idea how anyone played this game when it first came out, before the players were able to compile a wiki for all the things that are never freaking explained.