Nintenjoe64 wrote:
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I used to love Squaresoft's JRPGs in the SNES era but then when FFVII game out I couldn't believe that it was the game that was supposedly setting the world alight and it took me years to get into any other kind of JRPG. Xenoblade restored my faith in the genre so I would recommend that. If you haven't played Earthbound I would definitely recommend it because it sums up why I loved RPGs when the SNES was king. Super Mario RPG is also an easy on the eyes (and brain) old school adventure.
I'd actually argue that Xenoblade is a terrible choice for newcomers. It's so complex that I've seen hardcore RPG veterans struggle to get a good grasp of everything, and it's not exactly friendly in how it teaches you things - you often have to learn systems during difficult boss battles, for instance. Sure, you don't need to understand everything to wobble through the game, but I've found it certainly helps, especially if you don't do side quests. It's also a very long game, and if you put it down for a long time, you're gonna have to go through the journal for quite a while to relearn everything, provided you even remember that exists.
Then there's the simple fact that the world is huge and kinda easy to get lost in (even with a map, I struggled to get my bearings in some areas, like the knee, where everything kinda looks the same and there's not enough draw distance to know what's up ahead), and full of powerful monsters that you're not always supposed to fight. I'm not just talking about the guys who are way above your level, either - I once encountered a level 12 monster in a cave that was harder than the local boss, when I was roughly around the same level as it.
Again, I'd sooner recommend Paper Mario or Chrono Trigger to a noobie than a complex game like Xenoblade that requires some amount of experience with the genre.
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