I suspect it's that these sexualised aspects, however irritating, tend to be minor npcs, alternate costumes and sidequests in DQ, rather than the main design(s) for the lead character on the promo art and main cut scenes where the camera is always positioned to caress the female half the cast in XB2, in addition to all the optional blades, general sexualised tropes etc. One of them is easier to ignore (or begrudgingly tolerate) than the other when it's front-and-centre of the art direction, marketing, main characters and main story scenes for XB2.
I played XC2 between SC and The Third and liked Xc2 a lot, but Xc2 is a more modern game with different priorities. But as a classic JRPG with more lineal areas and focused on small NPC stories, I think that Kiseki is efortlessly better than DQ XI.
But the opinion of someone who really enjoyed the game and played 200 hours is more substantiated than the opinion of someone who just played for a few hours and stopped in the early game. I think the extreme positive opinion is fairer than the extreme negative because it's very improbable that the game is complete garbage.
I've played 30 hours, and yeah the game improves. Not that much, mind you, but at least some of the story arcs are charming, and some of the party members are fun. For me the first 10 hours were incredible boring, but as I'm ending the first half, my opinion of the game has improved quite a lot. Even so, one of the worst JRPGs I've played recently.
Normally I'd agree, but I think the game is so polarising that, if a few hours are all some players can stomach because of poorly explained mechanics or other aspects like the designs, cut scenes, character arcs etc, that's a valid enough opinion. Of course someone who plays for 200 hours is going to have a positive opinion almost by definition, that doesn't make it more valid than someone that bounces hard off of something and so, also by definition, is unlikely to finish a game that takes dozens of hours to play if they can't stand the characters and find the combat confusing.
Opinions. I consider a really limited OST that repeats the same songs over and over in a very low quality bad. And the compositions are bad IMO too, half ot them sound like military march songs.
There's like 20 hours of cutscenes in Xenoblade 2, some like that one are very intentionally comedic and juvenile. It's also one of the few games to legit make me emotional enough to cry when it changes gears towards the dramatic.
My point is that it doesn't take 30 hours to know if that's to your taste or not. Some people are going to give it a hard pass after three minutes of the cut scenes in this thread.
Compared to most JRPGs with an anime look from this gen yes, DQXI is most definitely the least "weeby" JRPG I've seen in recent memory.
Ah, good to know I'm allowed to say it's not a good game, since I put time into it. Awful characters, awful writing, dull, needlessly convoluted battle system with a shocking lack of depth, and a gacha system that had no business being in the game at all. I enjoy anime, and shonen occasionally, but Xenoblade 2 was just really poor shonen.
No idea, like I said, one doesn't invalidate the other, although I have to say I don't think I could play something for that long if I hated it!
The story starts in a completely different tone and pace than the latter's parts.
The problem: None of that was funny.
The weeby shit in XI sits kind of adjacent to the main narrative thrust of the game. A lot of the content is more or less weeby fanservice rather than something that's baked into the substratum of the entire experience. It's a cute window dressing that can be mostly ignored if you so desire and most of it is pretty tongue in cheek and self aware. At least that's been my experience in the 40ish hours I've plopped into it so far. There's a bevvy of costumes in the game, some are awesome looking, some make you look powerful, some are cute, some are hysterical (having your mage wear a garfield cat suit is just... jesus the cutscenes just about killed me with laughter), some are sexy. There's content in pretty equal measure across the board.
Don't assume this is a universally held view. A lot of people, myself included, think Rex is a very well-done and charming protagonist. He's definitely of a rather common archetype, but the key point is that he's well-executed.
As you can see Xc2 is a really divisive game, go and play it, and then return here and tell us your opinion.
Some bosses can be RNG bullshit in DQXI but only if you play with Super Strong Monsters Mode On. If you play normal that's not a factor at all unless I assume some optional post game super monsters get really tough.
I've played all of these games, and think that all of them are great (BotW is my GOAT), so I'll see you there!
That doesn't make the scene any less terrible. DQXI has an anime look and it has none of that bullshit. And don't compare the jokey and only suggestive puff puff scenes where the screen goes black to THAT.
