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Xenoblade Chronicles Rant
TLDR: I hate this game but I love this game Rant. Feel free to chime in
Let me start off by saying I love this game. But also hate this game for many many reasons.
Reasons I love this game is because it’s unique and the mech battles created an itch that can’t be scratched anywhere else.
The battle system is great and the questing is fun.
Reasons I hate the game
Because it creates an itch that can’t be scratched anywhere else. Again open world mech battles that take place on the sky and the ground. Also I love questing but it feels unrewarding. Scanning damage skells for negligible rewards or credits almost feel like a waste of my time. But somehow I do it anyway.
There’s also a lot of outdated mechanics, like why can’t I switch characters mid battle? I have to wait till the battle is over and then go to a menu to take control of the character I want. On top of that I hate games that if the character I control dies it’s game over. And the leveling… oh god don’t get me started on the leveling and gated progress
All in all, this game is fantastic definitely somewhere in my top 10-20 jrpgs. It’s outdated even by the standards of 2015 (or whatever year it came out) but it somehow keeps me coming back. The same reasons I hate it are often times the same reasons I love it.
Monolift soft “good job” but also “ f*** you”
Rant over