Probably my least favorite kind of fetch quest in video games is like. There’s a common enemy right. Like an evil bear-pig or whatever. You’re killing bear-pigs constantly in this game. Especially if you’re someone like me who likes to walk everywhere. You end up killing so many bear-pigs. They attack you in the streets. They interrupt you during cutscenes. Everywhere you look there’s nowhere but bear-pigs. Your satchel is filled to the brim with bear-pig skins.
So you sell all of your bear-pig skins, frankly tired of bear-pigs at this point, when two minutes later an NPC is like oh dear warrior may you please bring me four bear-pig skins so I may fashion some armor for my baby unicorn or whatever the fuck. You can find some in this cave.
So you’re like okay. I just sold all of my dead evil bear-pigs but whatever. They’re all over the place. And there’s probably enough in that cave.
Except there’s only three in that cave. And then you go looking for a fourth one. And suddenly there’s no bear-pigs to be found. None. None for the fucking baby unicorn dress or whatever the fuck.
So you go walking where they usually spawn. You go to places you haven’t been before. You go to places you saw them before but haven’t been to in a while. You try just going about your day certain one will run into you at some point. But no. All of a sudden every evil bear-pig has vanished from the face of the planet.