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Ulysses 31
Gold Member
The best Xenoblade!
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Uhhh Yeah Uh... YEAHHHHHHHH
Probably my favorite Wii U game. I won't say its anywhere near close to perfect, as it has its fair share of issues, but once you get a flying Skell... Man, flying through that enormous world feels so awesome.
The story took a backseat here, and the music is a mixed bag, but the gameplay more than makes up for it. Flying around in your skell for the first time felt just as great as entering Stormwind for the first time or running around in the garden of Peach's castle. The world they created is breathtakingly beautiful, even in all its 480p glory.
Once this game gets ported to Switch I can sell my Wii U with no regrets.
The story took a backseat here, and the music is a mixed bag, but the gameplay more than makes up for it. Flying around in your skell for the first time felt just as great as entering Stormwind for the first time or running around in the garden of Peach's castle. The world they created is breathtakingly beautiful, even in all its 480p glory.
Once this game gets ported to Switch I can sell my Wii U with no regrets.
Werewolf Jones
Member
The worst Xeno game I've played.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Amazing game, but you have to wait too long to get the mechs lol. Some of the best exploration and world design I’ve ever seen.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
They removed the boob sliders from the Western character creator because having big boobs is bad or something...
But yeah it was alright.
But yeah it was alright.
vanguardian1
poor, homeless and tasteless
gif's don't do this game's exploration and world justice.
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
THE reason to buy a WiiU!
Mister Wolf
Member
Its the Xenosaga 2 of Xenoblade games.
Dream-Knife
Banned
It was ok. I think they should have turned it into a full-fledged MMO. I like the other Xeno games more though (Even XS2).
Mercador
Member
The reason I almost buy a WiiU! I hope a remaster at some point in the future.
Jennings
Member
Big empty dead world with nothing and nobody interesting to find. All that empty space with no reason to go anywhere but points A B C. I thought the overworld could have been so much more interesting. Give me the chance to find treasure, people, quests, personality... something. There's just unintelligent bullet-sponge creatures to find, nothing more. It's tedious.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Bring it to Nintendo switch
KungFucius
King Snowflake
All I can say is that we better get a fucking follow up. Best Xenoblade by far.
Nintendo guys havent played all the other xeno games.
fallingdove
Member
It probably is the worst in the Xenoverse - Xenosaga Episode 2 a close second.
kunonabi
Member
Xenosaga Episode 2 is irredeemable trash that basically tanked the franchise. It's easily the worst of the bunch.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
4x the size of Fallout 4 with virtually zero loading. Wii U.
fallingdove
Member
I don’t know - Chronicles X is pretty awful. At least saga 2 had a few likeable characters and an interesting story. The extreme grind, ridiculous Skell repair mechanics, overabundance of fetch quests, and gated story progression of X bothered me much more than the issues I encountered with Saga 2.
Shifty1897
Member
What the hell do you mean by "you people?"
Never played it but it looks good.
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Absolutely love it.
But it is weird. And you may need to be weird to love it so much.
Its strengths are different from the other Xenoblade games as well... Story and characters, while enjoyable in my opinion, are not as good as the first Xenoblade which has very strong characters and story.
I like to put it like this: the main character in Xenoblade X isn't any of the people or aliens but rather Mira, the planet you're exploring, is the main character.
I always post this picture posing with my customized mech whenever I talk about it
But it is weird. And you may need to be weird to love it so much.
Its strengths are different from the other Xenoblade games as well... Story and characters, while enjoyable in my opinion, are not as good as the first Xenoblade which has very strong characters and story.
I like to put it like this: the main character in Xenoblade X isn't any of the people or aliens but rather Mira, the planet you're exploring, is the main character.
I always post this picture posing with my customized mech whenever I talk about it
BusierDonkey
Member
It was awesome when it was awesome, but it was pretty shit when it wasn't. Overall I had a good time playing it for over 300 hours.
Good
- The world was phenomenal, full of things to do, places to see and monsters to fight.
- The music was mostly really good save the shitty New LA theme and the battle music when piloting the skell was pretty awful.
- The Skells looked awesome and were fun to fly around the world in as they opened up places all over the map.
- The overall story, the mystery of Mira was compelling (and still is) and the adventure the game presented was massive in scale and scope as is expected from Monolith Soft
- I liked the world management stuff
- Collecting rare Skell parts gave me a reason to go back over and over hour after hour (even though the skells tend to pop like pinatas in a fight resulting in a massive repair bill)
Bad
- The character creator was a mistake. You should have just played the game as Elma. Your character was literally just along for the ride with nothing to say.
- A lot of the story was dragged down by cartoon-tier villains.
- Unlocking the flying skells happened so late in the game they're really only needed in post game but even then you're better off fighting on foot than in a skell which would break immediately when an end-game boss looked at it.
- The multiplayer stuff was half-baked.
Good
- The world was phenomenal, full of things to do, places to see and monsters to fight.
- The music was mostly really good save the shitty New LA theme and the battle music when piloting the skell was pretty awful.
- The Skells looked awesome and were fun to fly around the world in as they opened up places all over the map.
- The overall story, the mystery of Mira was compelling (and still is) and the adventure the game presented was massive in scale and scope as is expected from Monolith Soft
- I liked the world management stuff
- Collecting rare Skell parts gave me a reason to go back over and over hour after hour (even though the skells tend to pop like pinatas in a fight resulting in a massive repair bill)
Bad
- The character creator was a mistake. You should have just played the game as Elma. Your character was literally just along for the ride with nothing to say.
- A lot of the story was dragged down by cartoon-tier villains.
- Unlocking the flying skells happened so late in the game they're really only needed in post game but even then you're better off fighting on foot than in a skell which would break immediately when an end-game boss looked at it.
- The multiplayer stuff was half-baked.
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
LordOfChaos
Member
I'll take the other side here and say I just couldn't get into it, the dialogue, the dead eyes, the systems, it just felt dated even when it was new and kludgy to me as much as people held it up as an example for the Wii U's capabilities. The early missions at least felt like a go here and do this kind of chore a few times over.
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vanguardian1
poor, homeless and tasteless
To be fair, your ship of survivors recently crash landed, what would you think the priorities were? Resources, personnel, and security. Your escape pod, IIRC, was farthest one out from New LA so you're the last new recruit, so to speak and since you seem to be the only one whom lost their memory, their need of field agents (especially capable ones) combined with your two other permanent members being among their best, means they put a bit more effort into your character and their team.
By the way, the story (which gets points for originality and big plot surprises from me, even if there were issues to it's implementation) would need to be scrapped completely if we followed a character whom knew it all. So I vote no on getting rid of the character creation situation. It's really fun getting "blown away" by the first surprise.
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kunonabi
Member
Yeah, I loved X so much that going back to the generic anime trappings of Xenoblade 2 bored the hell out of me.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
the last interesting game that is stuck on the Wii U probably.
BacklashWave534
Member
Not debating that it was a good game but having a million lifeless fetch quests doesn't make it better than Fallout 4. Everything this company has made since Xenosaga (which was amazing) has been 30 hours of main story and 100 hours of fetch quests.
F31 Leopard
Member
Best game in the series.
https://imgur.com/gallery/SdhhGmb
https://imgur.com/gallery/SdhhGmb
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Platinumstorm
Member
I've been trying to play XCX. The story quality and the way the characters don't even animate are really difficult to get past. I'm not a graphics snob, and I love the creativity of the world itself, but these factors, plus the idea that I am going to have to spend 60-100 hours like that to finish the game a bit difficult to deal with.
That and Bayonetta 2 are some of my last games I need to play on the Wii U.
That and Bayonetta 2 are some of my last games I need to play on the Wii U.
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YukiOnna
Member
Takahashi does want to do a sequel. I just hope XC3 comes before an X 2...
LordOfChaos
Member
To be fair, your ship of survivors recently crash landed, what would you think the priorities were? Resources, personnel, and security. Your escape pod, IIRC, was farthest one out from New LA so you're the last new recruit, so to speak and since you seem to be the only one whom lost their memory, their need of field agents (especially capable ones) combined with your two other permanent members being among their best, means they put a bit more effort into your character and their team.
By the way, the story (which gets points for originality and big plot surprises from me, even if there were issues to it's implementation) would need to be scrapped completely if we followed a character whom knew it all. So I vote no on getting rid of the character creation situation. It's really fun getting "blown away" by the first surprise.
I get this a lot. How long do I need to play before it's fun?
I just couldn't shake the feeling that it felt even older than a 2015 game and the dialogue trees were a chore
Astral Dog
Member
Its a difficult game to rate, i was expecting more Xenoblade but this is an unique beast. Plot is shit, characters all ugly, hud is difficult to read. But the world is gorgeous, the music rad, gameplay fun and exploring with your mech doesn't get old.
I think the problem is that og Xenoblade style is still superior for gamers who want a more traditional jrpg experience, if Monolith makes a new ip it should be less Xenoblade and try new things (instead of the X spin off)
I think the problem is that og Xenoblade style is still superior for gamers who want a more traditional jrpg experience, if Monolith makes a new ip it should be less Xenoblade and try new things (instead of the X spin off)
vanguardian1
poor, homeless and tasteless
As someone who doesn't like the combat system to the xenoblade series (xenogears is my #1 all time favorite game, and I really enjoyed the xenosaga games, would prefer this combat system over blade's), I'd say it depends on if you're enjoying any of it. X's story isn't the greatest, but I still enjoyed most it (music, most characters, plot, etc), especially the mecha (along with the plot suprises) and I could manage the combat system well enough that I could power on through the game (and I think I did all of the side quests, at least the ones that maxed out my associations with the extra characters). Can't say the same of FF13's combat system... ugh!
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alucard0712_rus
Member
It's my favourite Xenoblade!
Played a lot of Xenoblade Chronicles DE made me realize that X is way better for me.
Played a lot of Xenoblade Chronicles DE made me realize that X is way better for me.
tkscz
Member
One of the best RPGs ive ever played. While it has its issues, leveling your mech by finding rare parts and mastering the combo system for examples, I still have a great time with it. Especially with side quest. Some of them get whacky and a lot of them grow the community of the game. New areas and objects start appearing when you do them so it's interesting to find them.
Ulysses 31
Gold Member
What was so bad about the plot? The execution? I thought it was quite original that earth was destroyed, human "digital" copies were put into cyborgs and that the Mira planet doesn't let you escape. There were also hints that other ark ships escaped the massacre.
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Ezquimacore
Banned
Not the best story, but the music, gameplay and world are fucking amazing