>Accompanied by a long series of irritating tutorials, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 throws all that it can at you, from complex battle tactics to about a dozen merchant types when only three or four would have sufficed. And that’s not even the worst part: This nonstop assault of options and conversations comes with a tone that would better serve a 30-minute television program for preschoolers than an epic RPG about classic themes like loyalty and hope. > Cutscenes interrupt action to an unnecessary degree. In one laughable segment, you watch a cinematic and walk a very short distance before another one starts. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 also doesn’t do itself any favors by carrying over the “Heart-to-Heart” character interactions from its predecessor. >For a game about a world moving toward a tragic fate, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 brings to mind children’s programming like Barney & Friends with its mawkishly cute tendencies. This is apparent in the often unassuming choice of songs, as when cheery music plays while characters recount a battle, and in the way that the cast speaks, especially the Nopons, a species of fat and fuzzy things whose chatter, from “No time for explain!” to the ever-irritating mantra of “meh-meh,” could have been ghostwritten by George Lucas. Such infantile moments distract from the more inspired parts of the story, such as Rex’s undying faith or Vandham’s down-to-earth wisdom. > Then again, the most interesting aspects of the combat lie dormant for hours and hours until the tutorial decides that it’s okay for you to become aware of an essential component. The fact that one has to spend so much time with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 until its most attractive qualities emerge—amid all the busybody activities and foolish yapping of folks who sound like they’re not ready for kindergarten—confirms that the game could have benefited from major editing. slantmagazine.com/games/xenoblade-chronicles-2/
Its anniversary is in December. 3 years of seething over KINOBLADE CHRONICLES 2.
Thomas Lee
>XC2 is a 4/10 toddler game That's pretty much every Nintendo game ever. If you haven't outgrown their games by teens congratulations on being a retard who visits theme parks in his 30s 'to have fun'.
Hudson Lee
How did monolith make a game so divisive that people are still mad about it 3 years after its release
Nicholas Morgan
Who's seething over Cringeblade Chronicles 2? People just calling it shit because the game deserves it.
Jackson Hill
3 years later and you're still SEETHING over KINOBLADE LUDOCLES 2
Nathaniel Watson
I really dont get the dicksucking on Torna its about on par, maybe a little worse than Xenoblade 2. Is it literally just the fact that the MC isnt Rex?
Henry Jenkins
Give me a Nintendo Switch game that isn't divisive. Even Splatoon have Woomers who prefer the Idolshit side characters over the Popstar Duo who have actual talents.
If you use Metacritic as a metric for a game being good you're brain damaged.
Levi Ward
>uses one critic instead
Austin Hall
Yeah, good taste is not a matter of popular vote, faggot.
Aiden Morales
>if you use Metacritic as a metric for a game being good The size of some butthurt user's asshole is not a good metric either
Lucas Peterson
>XC2 is a 4/10 toddler game Every time i see bitching about this game i'm more tempted to buy a switch just to play it. It's like reverse psychology with these shills.
>people shitting on a bad game means they are mad What's it like never finishing middle school?
Nicholas Ward
>D-D-DOESN'T C-COUNT! Your favorite waifubait game doesn't get enough negative reactions because it's garbage that only sad incels like yourself play. Normal people avoid it like the plague after doing basic research. Cope.
Jace Perry
>this amount of cope
Nathan Sanders
>Play for 45-ish hours because friend tells me it gets REALLY GOOD once you get to like chapter 5 or something >I force myself to play and try to engage with all the side content >Combat is slow as fuck and you don't even unlock all mechanics for like 20 or 30 hours of play >Was fun at first to get big numbers by playing elemental flowcharts, but got real fucking tired of watching QTEs forever >Story is a nosedive of retarded anime bullshit where you have to go stop a party member's dad from making an army of loli mechs and get distracted by random thieves stealing shit for a huge pointless tangential chapter that is still mandatory
XC2 is more cringe than it looks from the outside.
>>Play for 45-ish hours because friend tells me it gets REALLY GOOD once you get to like chapter 5 or something if you fall for this shit youre a giant retard. not reading the rest of your post
Jose Sanders
>Normal people avoid it like the plague Yeah, because they are too busy playing movie shit like pic related
So why did they change Suzaku, Byakko and Seiryu but left Genbu's name intact? It made no sense. Outside of Seiryu other names sound relatively ok in English too
