Regardless, probably not posting in this thread again until I beat it.
When I said this, I did not think I would spend nearly four hours focused exclusively on the first PART of one blade sidequest (Agate) and on trying to clear out ONE ROOM. A SINGLE ROOM. (thank god I succeeded by the end of that)
I've never gone so back and forth on a game in my life. Thankfully most of this game is still really entertaining at its core, which is what makes it ultimately a great game. And even a lot of its low points are at least...memorable. Just like that awful part of the Thousand Year Door where you have to backtrack to find General White, I won't forget this anytime soon!
@kkslider5552000
I'm exactly the same on this game. I've put like 30-40 hours in (which is nothing, I know lol) and I'm not even finished chapter 4.
There was a time maybe like chapter 3ish where I really got into it and was just cruising along and feeling like I was understand things (story, gameplay, take your pick), but then I fell off and started counting hours again. And whenever I start counting hours I'm putting into a game, it's never a good sign.
To be fair, chapter 4 is the least relevant story chapter and the one where I had to learn the importance of pouch items (well largely the one specific pouch item to be exact), so that sounds right. Actually that's exactly like me, I quit playing for months immediately after the end of chapter 3 because my tv was broken and I didn't want to play too much of the game on handheld.
Xenoblade games in general are black holes that will consume your free time if you care at all about side content.
Yeah but in the original, that time actually went into accomplishing something with usually the only obstacle in your way other than an actual tough fight being rare item orbs (replaced by a way better system in 2). Maybe some of the really late game Colony 6 stuff, but its been a while. But what am I accomplishing by going to places and 3/4 of the time being told "you can't do this one, find the right one"? That's literally this quest. At least a few of the places are out of the way places I hadn't been to before, but too much of this is "walk 2 minutes, you can't do this yet, go to next place, repeat". I had to look up a guide because I assumed if I found one of the level 1 things that only had bugs it meant there wasn't a 2nd level 1 there, because the first area I checked had a level 1, a level 2, and a level 3. And also because another one was connected to a frozen lake that I could melt but it didn't show the icon to do something until I got basically next to it.
Like there comes a point where you're just wasting people's time for no reason. And its not like they needed to extend the game's length.
I think the one room had the same exact issue where you couldn't see an important icon until you close enough to it. I also think the original actually did a solid job of giving you mini story quests at times, I feel like maybe if they did that for this part they could've conveyed this to me or anyone playing it. It was cool when I figured out how to beat all the enemies in that room, I'll say that much at least.
@kkslider5552000
Yea, I'm still trying to grasp the pouch items. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but a lot of the stuff in this game my brain just doesn't seem to understand lol
my recomendation is to ignore most of the sidequests on a first playtrough and do it on new game + if you're really into that
This is a reasonable idea but there was zero chance I was going to do a 2nd playthrough. I've never even replayed the original.
Also to be fair, I'm still definitely going to do less of a complete run than I did for the original (basically the only things I didn't complete in the first game were most of the late game content that almost certainly exists for after you beat the game). I have approximately 10 or so, non-required unique blades, so I'm probably not doing any quests for any blades I get after this. Most likely what I'm going to do is finish chapter 8, early enough in chapter 9 do all the quests I in any way want to do (actually finishing Agate's quest might be the last one I do depending on how things go), finish the game. It's a shame since I like the idea of all these unique blades having their own quest with actual voiced dialogue and everything, but its just too much at this point.
@kkslider5552000 Oh yeah, several quests in XC2 give you the runaround.
The only Xenoblade game I've played that has good sidequests is Torna: The Golden Country. Almost every sidequest in that game is fun, and there's none of the "you don't meet the blade field skill requirement" nonsense in that game, or the trash-tier sidequests and orb collecting from the original.
Just finished the game after 100 hours after beating the first one in another 100 hours during the last months. What an amazing experience. A truly outstanding rollercoaster of emotions, two great cast of lovable characters and an incredible overarching story. Xenoblade Chronicles as a whole has probably become one of my favourite gaming memory.
I just couldn't get into Xenoblade Chronicles 2. No inherent fault of the game itself, it just wasn't for me.
I think it just felt too 'anime' for my tastes, even by the standards of what I usually don't mind.
That's not to say I have refined taste or any of that *****, it was just too offputting.
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you'll be able to use them better when you're older.
@Maximumbeans If you haven't tried the first, then you probably should. It has better characters, a more serious story, and less shonen tropes. 2's plot gets good at the very end of it, but until then it's a constant tone shift that, at least in my opinion, took me out of the experience for the most part.
The original is fairly good at keeping it's tone in check, and the battle system, while not being as complex as 2's, is way faster paced.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
@VoidofLight Thanks for the recommendation. It's definitely overdue on my backlog. Truth be told I've been putting it off in favour of things I can complete in far less time, though maybe I could play it alongside some 'palette cleansers' since I know it'll be a long journey if it hooks me.
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you'll be able to use them better when you're older.
I've beaten XC2 somewhere at the 1st half of 2018 I believe, then I got Torna expansion and beat it too.
Time goes by and I always wanted to return and try NG+ with all the downloadable additions and extra difficulty, but the sheer amount of stuff I have to re-learn in order to be fluent inside this game is daunting.
You'll probably find that things go much smoother on an NG+. Not only do you get to keep a lot of your progress from the previous run, but - even after a long gap - things should click into place that much sooner. You'd have had to put a lot of effort in to finish the game and what you learned should still be there deep down.
Also, there's a lot of good information available online now as to how the mechanics of the game work and you should find that combat proceeds a lot faster, and with a greater likelihood of victory, when you know what you're doing.
I certainly had an absolute blast last year when I returned to the game for an NG+ run. There's nothing like the feeling of farming superbosses for core chips where you wouldn't have previously dared go into their aggro range.
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