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Still chipping away at Xenoblade Chronicles 2 *checks notes* almost a month later.
After making it the furthest I've ever gotten with this game (35 hours at this point):
Anyway, hopefully I'll beat it this time. I really want to see it through to the end, but I doubt I'll be pining for a second playthrough like I currently am with the previous two games.
After making it the furthest I've ever gotten with this game (35 hours at this point):
- I do like the Blades system. It's a bit like a Jojo JRPG.
- The worlds are as well made as they were in the previous two games. The sense that these are miniscule characters in a giant world really comes across, which only Xenoblade alongside a few MMO's have ever managed to make me feel.
- The character designs are baller. It's a shame some of them are locked behind RNG with the Blades system as I think a few of them are far more interesting designs and personalities than the main characters. Apparently it kept the ones I had in my previous game in the blade encyclopedia and all I know is that I want the big fat Baymax rabbit again.
- UK voice cast. Aside from Rex (I hate his voice) I love that they have a UK voice cast again after X. Nia especially as there's just 'something' I love about the Welsh accent. I really hope moving forward they just stick with UK voice casts. It's not something we get very often and it's a reason I liked this and the first game.
- That "one eyed monster" joke with Nia. I didn't have a favorite genital joke and now I do.
- The worlds are as well made as they were in the previous two games. The sense that these are miniscule characters in a giant world really comes across, which only Xenoblade alongside a few MMO's have ever managed to make me feel.
- The character designs are baller. It's a shame some of them are locked behind RNG with the Blades system as I think a few of them are far more interesting designs and personalities than the main characters. Apparently it kept the ones I had in my previous game in the blade encyclopedia and all I know is that I want the big fat Baymax rabbit again.
- UK voice cast. Aside from Rex (I hate his voice) I love that they have a UK voice cast again after X. Nia especially as there's just 'something' I love about the Welsh accent. I really hope moving forward they just stick with UK voice casts. It's not something we get very often and it's a reason I liked this and the first game.
- That "one eyed monster" joke with Nia. I didn't have a favorite genital joke and now I do.
- I want to play something else now but I know I'll struggle to pick it up again if I drop it now. Looked online at how long I have left and...I'm just over half way through. I don't recall the other two being so long and if they were, it probably helps that I loved them from the start. It's not often I complain about a game being far too long but with what's looking to be about 60-70 hours of main story content, it's tiring to sit through at this point. I don't mind so much content, but it would be a lot less daunting if it were optional side quests and blades.
- About 20 hours in until I stopped getting regular tutorials and unlocking new primary gameplay features. It shouldn't take so long to be given your entire BASIC toolset and the game to become fun and honestly, to me it's a design failure. I'm only trying so hard to finish this one because I want to love it like the previous two, I don't know how a newcomer with no expectations could sit and bide their time this long...Reminds me of Final Fantasy XIII when everybody insisted the game gets good about 30 hours in, then 30 hours in you get 3 big open empty fields before entering the final stretch of hallways.
- The characters never shut up. There really needs to be some sort of 'mute combat dialogue' option or something. Sometimes they cut themselves off mid sentence they talk so damn much. Especially with Tora and Nia doing those irritating "ma ma maaaah" and "yayayayayayaya" noises every 6 seconds.
- Too many cutscenes. I would love the game far more if it just let me spend more time enjoying the systems rather than a bombardment of cutscenes, more often than not about 5 in a row within 20 meters distance of each other. Seeing as I've """""played""""" a lot of this game on my work breaks, most of my game time has essentially been watching a movie at this point.
- I hate the augment system. So tedious and dull compared to everything else there. In fact, as much as I love some of the game systems, there's too many of them. Regular RPG levels, affinity trees, weapon skills, accessories, pouch, blades, affinity trees for the blades, separate weapon systems for the blades, augments for the blades, another separate system specifically for one character (Poppi and her variations), field skills...Like, damn, most of this could be consolidated into each other. It's poorly designed IMO.
- One that irked me in particular because it had me wandering around for about half an hour stuck on where to go, there's been at least a couple of times where you have to do something you've never done before, never will do again and thus didn't even know it was an option you should consider. This particular case was standing on some icicles to make them drop and create a bridge to progress. Absolutely nowhere else in the game did I have to do anything remotely like that, where I have to stand in a particular unmarked spot to make something happen, so when I got to it and there was no objective marker, I didn't even consider that a possibility. I just looked for some field skill icons and moved on like the game had trained me to do for the previous 30 hours. I thought it was all static scenery like literally everything else up to this point.
I hate when games do that, expect you to do something the game hasn't taught you is possible. I don't get the feeling of "oh, it's so obvious! I'm so silly!", I just think "wtf?" and call it crap.
- About 20 hours in until I stopped getting regular tutorials and unlocking new primary gameplay features. It shouldn't take so long to be given your entire BASIC toolset and the game to become fun and honestly, to me it's a design failure. I'm only trying so hard to finish this one because I want to love it like the previous two, I don't know how a newcomer with no expectations could sit and bide their time this long...Reminds me of Final Fantasy XIII when everybody insisted the game gets good about 30 hours in, then 30 hours in you get 3 big open empty fields before entering the final stretch of hallways.
- The characters never shut up. There really needs to be some sort of 'mute combat dialogue' option or something. Sometimes they cut themselves off mid sentence they talk so damn much. Especially with Tora and Nia doing those irritating "ma ma maaaah" and "yayayayayayaya" noises every 6 seconds.
- Too many cutscenes. I would love the game far more if it just let me spend more time enjoying the systems rather than a bombardment of cutscenes, more often than not about 5 in a row within 20 meters distance of each other. Seeing as I've """""played""""" a lot of this game on my work breaks, most of my game time has essentially been watching a movie at this point.
- I hate the augment system. So tedious and dull compared to everything else there. In fact, as much as I love some of the game systems, there's too many of them. Regular RPG levels, affinity trees, weapon skills, accessories, pouch, blades, affinity trees for the blades, separate weapon systems for the blades, augments for the blades, another separate system specifically for one character (Poppi and her variations), field skills...Like, damn, most of this could be consolidated into each other. It's poorly designed IMO.
- One that irked me in particular because it had me wandering around for about half an hour stuck on where to go, there's been at least a couple of times where you have to do something you've never done before, never will do again and thus didn't even know it was an option you should consider. This particular case was standing on some icicles to make them drop and create a bridge to progress. Absolutely nowhere else in the game did I have to do anything remotely like that, where I have to stand in a particular unmarked spot to make something happen, so when I got to it and there was no objective marker, I didn't even consider that a possibility. I just looked for some field skill icons and moved on like the game had trained me to do for the previous 30 hours. I thought it was all static scenery like literally everything else up to this point.
I hate when games do that, expect you to do something the game hasn't taught you is possible. I don't get the feeling of "oh, it's so obvious! I'm so silly!", I just think "wtf?" and call it crap.
Anyway, hopefully I'll beat it this time. I really want to see it through to the end, but I doubt I'll be pining for a second playthrough like I currently am with the previous two games.
nerfeddude
Legendary Intellectual
Playing ACNH, SSBU and Genshin Impact on a daily basis. Slowly working my way through Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD and a few Steam games. Also my friend was really kind to let me use his Switch account, so I'm going to slowly but surely play through all of the Megaman Legacy Collections he has 👁 👁
Dwayne Johnson
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DarkDesertFox
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Between exams and as a break from animal crossing (currently cataloguing the entirety of the able sisters' both for myself and to help someone), I'm playing pokemon BDSP (both, one save is just before the last gym, the other is approaching the forest), and doing a ton of berry farming. It is all I know. That and digging. I would love to get back into botw, and maybe pick up the expansions/dlc components
cherrysmilesonice
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Halloqueen
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Snek
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Brilliant Diamond.
Just wanting to play with some favourites that I couldn't play with in Sword. Doing some heavy-duty breeding at the moment to pass the time.
New Horizons.
I've been playing this once a week so far but now that the Toy Day season is approaching I'll be playing this more often.
Just wanting to play with some favourites that I couldn't play with in Sword. Doing some heavy-duty breeding at the moment to pass the time.
New Horizons.
I've been playing this once a week so far but now that the Toy Day season is approaching I'll be playing this more often.
Stalfos
Topsoilers!
I'm playing through Final Fantasy VIII (8) at the moment, finishing up some stuff before I reach the point of no return. I think this is my fifth playthrough of this game and, I gotta say, It really gets better and better the more you dig into triple triad and card modding which lets you junction some powerful spells pretty early on.
