Some retailers have released the game earlier

some of us have already beaten it lol
Heavy arms got the game several days ago

This post has been edited by Convael: Nov 30 2017, 04:29 PM

It has huge amount of content and areas to explore , if you do everything I assume it will rack up to 100 hours +


A few reviewers said they have beaten it in roughly 40 hours

I am barely 2 hours in the game , love it . But the performance is kind of wonky , especially on Docked mode

The game still look　mighty fine on your hand , unfortunately it is kind of choppy and blurry in the open world combat and hectic areas

Also the resolution on handheld mode tend to drop down to very low , at this time I can't determine the exact numbers it sure ain't 720p .
The docked mode seems better , on the other hand.


In general I love the settings a lot, traveling among the sea of clouds remind me of the good old Skies of Arcadia.
I suggest wait until they officially release the game , because the japanese voice over DLC isn't available until the actual release date

This post has been edited by Convael: Nov 30 2017, 07:16 PM

they say it will be released as day 1 dlc , so probably tomorrow or Saturday - our time

I don't regret getting this game .
The game is good ( far from great ) but that's about it .

Xenoblade 1 is still my personal favorite among the blade series . And of course nothing ever came close to Gear and Saga 1

I was spoiled by all the God Tier jRPG like ToB , DQ11 and P5 last year


P/S : The only god tier aspect is definitely Mitsuda-san 's musics , no doubt about that

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 2 2018, 12:12 PM

The Comparison between the h2h scenes from X2 and Persona is completely unfair in this case .

The persona series put the main focus on their main characters , the social links and even the side characters . And they are a lot more elaborated than the ones in Xenoblade 2 . I still don't think you should compare them , because there are more than hundreds of Persona in P5 and they already have a lot of characters which you can spend days hanging out with .

Well we can agree to disagree here , but I would much rather have a proper Xenogears 2 , instead of Xenoblade 3 . I personally appreciate the deep writing , conflicted opinions with engrossing storytelling from gears a lot more . That is not that say I didn't enjoy blade 2 , I did and I like how each individual blade has extra side quests that opens up to their own background story, again the quest writings are still shallow and frustrating though.






I do like the Blade system in X2 , particularly the designs but I can definitely tell XC2 is rushed and lacks polishing compare to blade 1, probably due to the relatively shorter development time and rushing to release before the holidays , they didn't even have a proper map system before patch 1.1.1

The massive grind for the rare blade - Gacha system ( without the microtransaction in this case ) also did not have any failsafe built into them , so you literally could spend up to 500 hours grinding the game and still won't get your last blade

P/S : The Link between X2 world and XBX is brilliant, Sea Cloud settings will always be my favorite jRPG settings. ( Remember Skies of Arcadia ? )

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 6 2018, 10:39 AM

I have questioned some of the game designs , but the dev had much shorter time to create such a huge game , to the point I suspect they did not do a proper playtest for the game.


For example some of these tutorial and game system information had to be bought using game money , which is quite absurd . Imagine when You try to understand a certain aspect of the game system but you can't because you don't have enough money to buy the tutorial info.


Adding another layer of requirement of refining your Aux before you can equip it also completely remove the excitement of obtaining great item . You found an amazing AUX drop from a Unique Boss and can't wait to try it out after you felled the boss , but you can't because you don't have the necessary material.

The game already has enough stuff to grind for to begin with .

This post has been edited by Convael: Jan 9 2018, 08:08 PM

You have progressed really fast as someone who has started the game not too long ago O_o