While digging through the game's files, I stumbled upon what appears to be dialogue text intended for a scenario where you play as Ren in Bailu Village! Its within the files for the Battle Rally DLC - suggesting that originally there was even more to it besides the Bailu-chan hunt and the rally itself.
I've attached the .txt file with this post (its in the folders as a UEXP file but you can open it with Notepad, so I've saved it as .txt for easy access), but below you can find my transcription of it, denoting the characters that I believe the dialogue belongs to.
It can be found in the game's files within the 'pakchunk2' PAK file - when unpacked, the path to this file is:
Game\Scenario\TextData\DLCBattleRally\en-US\RENDLCBR.UEXP
As you'll see, the dialogue suggests this was a sidequest where Ren is charged with completing various tasks by Mao Meimei, who runs the Prize Exchange in Panda Market, who will then agree to go on a date with Ren if he manages to complete them all. However, things don't quite go the way Ren would have hoped...
NOTE: Anything in italics are my comments, and I've denoted who I believe is saying each line of dialogue:
...
Sun Jiusi
or...
Mo Guangming
While Sun is well known for his love of wine and steamed buns, and can obviously put up a fight, this sort of behaviour would seem out of character for the sage old master. Therefore I'm leaning towards this being Guangming. However, it is possible its neither, and rather an entirely new character created simply for the purpose of this sidequest. Who knows? It does seem odd that Meimei refers to 'thugs' and that an old man would be their leader - unless she is simply exaggerating things to Ren slightly to use him to get rid of an awkward customer, of course!
And following this, there is one last challenge for Ren to complete:
...
You may remember Meimei's brother, Mao Zhi, being the kid that wants the soccer ball in the main game's sidequest:
Besides the amusement of Ren getting screwed over, there is an interesting tidbit that I believe is not shared anywhere else in the game - that Meimei and Zhi's parents 'aren't around anymore'. (presumably deceased) This is interesting as there does appear to be other members of the Mao family living in the village - namely:
Mao Yuefang
& Mao Yeliang (Yuefang's son)
If Meimei and Zhi's parents are no longer around, this may suggest that Yuefang is Meimei's sister (they appear to be around the same age, I think?), so Yeliang would be Meimei's nephew.
Also, at the end of this file there are the following lines, which would presumably trigger if Ren attempted to go to a different area when he's not supposed to, much like similar dialogue for Ryo in the main game:
I can only assume this was scrapped at around the same time Baisha had to be, as this was supposed to feature the 'Character Perspective' system where you could play as Ren and Shenhua - perhaps they then decided against having this feature in the DLC...at any rate, I'm sure you'll agree this is a fascinating find!
I've attached the .txt file with this post (its in the folders as a UEXP file but you can open it with Notepad, so I've saved it as .txt for easy access), but below you can find my transcription of it, denoting the characters that I believe the dialogue belongs to.
It can be found in the game's files within the 'pakchunk2' PAK file - when unpacked, the path to this file is:
Game\Scenario\TextData\DLCBattleRally\en-US\RENDLCBR.UEXP
As you'll see, the dialogue suggests this was a sidequest where Ren is charged with completing various tasks by Mao Meimei, who runs the Prize Exchange in Panda Market, who will then agree to go on a date with Ren if he manages to complete them all. However, things don't quite go the way Ren would have hoped...
NOTE: Anything in italics are my comments, and I've denoted who I believe is saying each line of dialogue:
...
...
...
Now, its hard to infer who this old man is (and indeed the thugs Ren fights first, who don't appear to have any dialogue?). The fact Ren refers to him as 'old man' rules out it being Yanlang again. But we do know of two fairly elderly Bailu Village residents who have a taste for alcohol and/or buns. Therefore it seems likely to be either:
Sun Jiusior...
Mo GuangmingWhile Sun is well known for his love of wine and steamed buns, and can obviously put up a fight, this sort of behaviour would seem out of character for the sage old master. Therefore I'm leaning towards this being Guangming. However, it is possible its neither, and rather an entirely new character created simply for the purpose of this sidequest. Who knows? It does seem odd that Meimei refers to 'thugs' and that an old man would be their leader - unless she is simply exaggerating things to Ren slightly to use him to get rid of an awkward customer, of course!
And following this, there is one last challenge for Ren to complete:
...
You may remember Meimei's brother, Mao Zhi, being the kid that wants the soccer ball in the main game's sidequest:
Besides the amusement of Ren getting screwed over, there is an interesting tidbit that I believe is not shared anywhere else in the game - that Meimei and Zhi's parents 'aren't around anymore'. (presumably deceased) This is interesting as there does appear to be other members of the Mao family living in the village - namely:
Mao Yuefang & Mao Yeliang (Yuefang's son)If Meimei and Zhi's parents are no longer around, this may suggest that Yuefang is Meimei's sister (they appear to be around the same age, I think?), so Yeliang would be Meimei's nephew.
Also, at the end of this file there are the following lines, which would presumably trigger if Ren attempted to go to a different area when he's not supposed to, much like similar dialogue for Ryo in the main game:
And there you have it! I'm not certain if anything else relating to this seemingly scrapped content is anywhere in the game's files - the only other file in the folder is a UASSET file, which I cannot open myself as my laptop is ancient and can't open Unreal Editor (it can't play the game either, I literally grabbed it from the recent Humble Bundle just to have access to the game's files, mainly to check some things for the character database I just released!). But perhaps someone more savvy than me might be able to find something :)
I can only assume this was scrapped at around the same time Baisha had to be, as this was supposed to feature the 'Character Perspective' system where you could play as Ren and Shenhua - perhaps they then decided against having this feature in the DLC...at any rate, I'm sure you'll agree this is a fascinating find!
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