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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 First Review
- Thread starter RockmanBN
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Sounds general Xenoblade to me, then I guess this series won't get more than 36 for famitsu forever..................
wanted to have the game for X date =/= rushing it. XB2 been in development for more than 2 years cause X released Early 2015. Nintendo is not know for rushing ports just to have em out if that means the game will be trash
This part alone tell you whoever played it likely has no experience with previous Xenoblade games. as the combat system is really deep and min maxing, and unless you use it properly your damage output will be a joke.
You must have listened to a different podcast than I have because he sounded anything but. Unless you think he should have been gushing like a starburst every second?
It probably went something like this: "Nintendo dropped us like a rock when XCX was blasted for its localization, so now I'm shitting on their next game which we didn't have anything to do with."
I'm kidding, obv, but will give it a listen. I can't help but feel they're a little hurt from not being chosen to localize again.
Thanks for this!
you don't
Their reviews have been literally paid off for quite some time.
Just don't. That's the best option you have lol.
Edit: Damn beaten.
4 reviewers, each score from 1 to 10, all scores together are X/40.
The negative seems pretty valid if you're not a experienced xeno player,
Can we say Xenoblade Series is really not that friendly for newcomers?
He likes it, that's what I got from it. The beginning is slow (and so is combat at the start) and throws you too much information, that was his bigger critic. He literally says it's interesting, good and that people will be into it.
How much could Nintendo hate 8-4 if they gave them Fire Emblem Echoes, which has been universally praised for its localization?
Christ, the only people that were bitchy about the XCX localization had more to do with the content changes than anything 8-4 did. And given the timeframe of the game's development, XC2 was already off of the table since it likely started localization around the same time that 8-4 would have been working on XCX.
Honestly, this is basically everything you shoud take away from looking at a Famitsu score:
<30 oh, better read a couple of other reviews
>30 cool, better read some other reviews.
They are pretty much random either way.
I think the majority of thread feels this way. GAF is primarily North American and our tastes/Culture is overall quite different from Eastern gamers. So a Japanese magazine's review isn't going to be the best indicator of our likes. Regardless still dam excited about this game(I have it pre-ordered..... but no switch yet)
Battle system is different but not better. Beginning not done well. You have to stick with it for the first 10h. Music not as good as the first one.
I don't know. I was hoping for more than "just" more Xenonlade. But maybe that's just me.
You don't need to have played the first one to get into this one, they're 100% standalone and not related lore or story-wise at all.
That said, the first game is my favorite JRPG since FFIX, it's incredibly good and it blew me away (and I played it on 3DS).
I'm listening to the podcast and he just said it feels like Skies of Arcadia mixed with Grandia, and I couldn't possibly imagine a more hype description lol
Edit: Here's a summary for those who don't listen:
- he's a long time fan of the series (of course, they localized X :D)
- 13 hours in, feels like he's barely played 1% of the game (he later mentions he hasn't gotten any new Blades for example)
- he just reached the equivalent of Gaur plains
- feels very much like the last Xenoblade (which he loves)
- slow beginning (compares it to the beginning of the original XC - kinda overwhelming)
- the music is really really really good (so far he likes XC's OST more but says that's a high bar, plus again he's barely heard the OST)
- the core battle system feels very different from the previous games', improving as the game goes on
- world design very similar to the first game
- "Feels like Skies of Arcadia mixed with Grandia" from the music and setting
- "like they forgot X existed and decided to expand on the first one"
- again says slow to start, you have to stick with it, overwhelming
- again, feels like he's just getting started, woke up and wanted to continue playing
- mentions the improved quest system
Also they disliked Stranger Things 2 apparently :P
it never was the franchise which fascinated the japanese audience and the Famitsu wasn't fully convinced by the games either. The biggest problem with the magazine is the score system of 40 points and how they score different games. Famitsu scores usually higher so that you can say 35/40 for an ambitious project like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a slight disappointment. But in the end, the taste of this magazine is weird and this will never change.
Eh, I thought he actually had disappointing remarks. That sounds good to me, especially because he's still somewhat in the beginning.
Don't come in here with your logic and facts, I was trying to shit on 8-4. Let me rage!
I dont know. I just read it from several users, and hoped someone had some extra info or could confirm it was real :P Judging by the silence, I guessed it wasn't.
>You spend lots of time looking at event scenes
Well what did they expect from a story-heavy JRPG? Some of these 'negatives' are baffling tbh
Can we honestly just ban Famitsu review scores at this point? They've long since stopped being meaningful or indicative of literally anything for most (if not all) games, and pretty much everyone knows that.
Lots of JRPGs are padding things with unnecessary cutscenes, I don't see how this is baffling when you just want to enjoy the game.
The first game scales a lot with level. You can normally just grind your way through tougher encounters to boost your damage output.
But yeah, in general your gems and your skills are what boost your damage to good levels. So lets hope that getting good gems isnt dumb bullshit like in X.
Just for comparison, person 4 golden scored 35/40 from famitsu and a 93 on metacritic
Sonic forces scored 35/40 from famitsu and 59 on metacritic
Sonic forces scored 35/40 from famitsu and 59 on metacritic
For what it's worth, my experience has been a consistent volley between sweet and bitter, hit and miss. Some sessions I don't really have fun at all, and sometimes the presentation takes me by surprise and delights me. This is going to be a tough game to score. The Famitsu scores don't surprise me, and I'm predicting a lot (like... a lot) of heated debate about how good this game is or isn't after it launches.
You seem to equate cutscenes with story and characters when it's not even a requirement for JRPGs to throw asinine cutscenes that don't serve any purpose. Being interrupted all the time doesn't mean you get a story out of it.
Sounds like my experience with XC1. It wasn't until I was fully done with that game that I was able to look back and appreciate it. But at the time there were a lot of flaws that made me go crazy.
What gives you the impression that everyone else's feelings towards it will be the same as yours when everyone else's previews have been almost all positive?
RPG can overdo it with dialogue. The newest Pokémon game will do things like pause everything just to teach you to jump off a ledge.
