Why is this game so overated?

Nostalgia is indeed one hell of a powerful drug. And upon replaying it, I realize I remembered everything through pink tinted glasses.

Gaur Plains is definitely not as big as I remember, or rather, it's big but also pretty empty, and it's severely lacking in verticality. The next two games definitely packed up their areas better (though, as for XCX, it's a different philosophy altogether). Also applies for the other areas, they're either not that big, or so empty they might as well have reduced their size by 1/2 (Eryth Sea and Alcamoth). Though, the scale of evolving over the two giant titans is definitely there, and it's as good as I remember.

Battle system is also a bit worse than I remember. It gets it's job done, but that's it, nothing more. It doesn't feel fun to play, it doesn't make me feel "fuck yeah, TIME TO BATTLE", even after switching to other characters.

Story takes a whole fucking while to pick up. There's the Fiora thing 3h in, but then, you just end up going through your obligatory-jrpg-themed-biome-area until there's finally a bit of world building when you reach Alcamoth.

And apart from Shulk and Melia, characters are just flat out boring, there are interesting bits here and there, but it could've been so much more, especially as Fiora feels a bit wasted, her relationship with Meyneth could've made her extremely interesting, and would've even been an excuse to give her new gameplay elements in combat, but it didn't go anywhere.

Nostalgia is incredibly powerful indeed. Still would recommend for new players though, it's a good game nonetheless.

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The biggest problem of this game is that there's just no content. Its corridors are indeed very wide, but there's nothing but monsters and useless collectibles for the encyclopedia. Couple that with probably the worst quest system in the genre and you have a game that's mediocre at best. Don't even get me started on painfully low movement speed that you cannot raise until pretty far into the game and the fact that the game cockblocks you from what little exploration it has with its retarded level scaling system.

Is it that hard to name specific games?

Name every JRPG ever

I dont get the appeal either
it looks like the most boring jrpg ever made
and the monado is some super nerd shit

there's only a few neat songs, but thats it

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Chad tier critism

XC1's leveling system is fucking retarded

>Hit rate level modifiers
>Lv -10 or less -200
>Lv -9 -180 -99
>Lv -8 -160 -88
>Lv -7 -140 -77
>Lv -6 -120 -66
>Lv -5 -40 -32
>Lv -4 -32 -24
>Lv -3 -24 -18
>Lv -2 0 0
>Lv -1 0 0
>Lv 0 0 0

>That huge as fuck gap between Lv 5 and 6
What the FUCK where they thinking.

Exploration is shit just because of that. And no levels of gems tinkering changes that, it just displaces the problem. People shit on XC2's exploration supposedly being hampered by Field Skills, but I never had any problems with them, as most often than not, it's just to open chests or dig up items/chests. Not so many areas are locked behind field skills, and even when they are, just tank up 6 common Dark Blades and just remove that portal, that's it. And at least I could battle UMs without being too much unfairly disadvantaged when I'm at a lower level than them.

>gem crafting

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The world is shit and I don't know why it gets so much praise. You can't interact with it in any meaningful way, there's nothing to really find, even flora and fauna is reduced to floating blue balls that give you a random piece of text that only has purpose in a handful of quests. The layout isn't even particularly interesting, just big fields full of nothing with one way in and out. They're the same as the FFXIII hallways just supersized.