Confused about friendship

[ksantiago]

So, been hanging out with Eugene for a while now and that first heart level still eludes me. Do I need to do something specific to get friendship?

[AndyFox]

You need to take down all of the Landkeepers bases for Eugene to get his first heart unfortunately. And i got say this really sucks, i wish you got the first heart as soon as you beat the first base.

[ksantiago]

Thanks! (I guess I will need to rely on Kayleigh's fusion for hard fights...)

[Tripas]

Yeah, it's really weird that they'd make lock something as integral to the game as fusion behind having at least one heart of friendship, and then put that requirement at the other end of a fairly long quest.

I know that in the world in which the game takes place fusions are supposed to be rare, but when you give us one so soon with Kayleigh and then make all the other fusions take way longer, you're disincentiving experimentation and getting to know the other characters.

Thank God that at least Kayleigh is enjoyable to be around, otherwise this would be such a damned chore.

[Fortuna]

Meredith is also fairly quick to get done, to give you options. Felix I also found easy, but then I knew where the 4 places you go to for him were by the time I got him. Eugene is just a really weird outlier.