Xenoblade Chronicles 2

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  1. Ophenix
    Dec 3, 2017
    4
    Tl;dr : The game isn't as good as it should have been. It has a blatant disregard for the player's time and the mixed bag that's design/characters/story keeps it from being fun.

    I was a fan of the first XBC, I never finished it cos it was wayyyyyy too long for me but the time I spent with the game was fun. XBC2 however seems to throw away most of what XBC was about. The world is still    Tl;dr : The game isn't as good as it should have been. It has a blatant disregard for the player's time and the mixed bag that's design/characters/story keeps it from being fun.

    I was a fan of the first XBC, I never finished it cos it was wayyyyyy too long for me but the time I spent with the game was fun. XBC2 however seems to throw away most of what XBC was about. The world is still gorgeous but a lot less polished. The combat is still MMO-ish but you have a lot less to do in combat and a lot more useless mechanics. The story is, so far, run-of-the-mill Shounen **** Go here, do 3-4 fetch quests, watch a cutscene, do 3-4 more fetch quests, and I'm talking about main story quests, not optional side quests.

    Lets add some examples so people reading this can decide if this game is for them or not.
    I died around 30-40 times to roaming flying mobs that are higher level than me. The initial area has around 5 of them, with another area off the side where you have another 4. You puling mobs cos they look interesting and you wanna fight them? A flying mobs joins and kills you. You grind to become strong enough to kill it? You get the mob low and another on of the **** joins in.
    Like, seriously, who is the idiot who designed the enemies in that world? I'm at the point where I don't want to explore because every area has 5 of these **** killing whenever I try to engage anything. It's like the game doesn't know if it wants me to explore the beautiful world they built, or it wants to **** me over for **** and giggles.

    Story is boring so far, I'm around 12 hours in, it might get interesting but I doubt it. The main protagonist is a blank slate nice guy with no personality and an annoying voice. Pyra, the second protagonist is more interesting and better voiced but her design makes her impossible to take seriously. She looks like she not only doesn't belong to the world but was also designed by a 13 year old boy who wanted to make Tron porn. E.g. at night she glows, which makes her fake looking huge boobs shine with green neon lights. I have no idea who designed her, he obviously never saw boobs in his life, or why he decided that this is the feature he wants to emphasize, but whatever.

    Lastly, the game's combat is, for the most part, boring. You need to time your skills to see the shining blue ring (still don't know what it does) and you need to combine skills for elemental trees (which is arguably the best part of combat) and you need to use skills to make enemies drop potions(?!?!?!?!) but the whole thing only comes together in boss fight where you have the time to build up combo chains. The usual combat isn't just a grindfest, it's a boring grindfest where you wait for icons to fill up. Also, did I mention you have 3 skills per character? Yup, you have 3 skills. 3 on each blade but the transition between blades is on cooldown as well. So you just wait...

    Some of the griped I have with the game are not design flaws but issues that can be patched out (like the **** enemy placement) but a lot of it is part of the way the game was built. They want you to grind and they want you to wait and they don't want you to have any fun.
    I'll try and finish it so I can get my money's worth but I don't recommend others play this.    … Expand
  2. dmax
    Dec 1, 2017
    1
    Despite the amazing music by Mitsuda carrying the game, the rest of it falls flat on its face.

    Filled to the brim with generic anime cardboard cutout characters, otaku pandering tropes. The character designs present range from extremely bland and forgetabble to extremely try hard at "moe". The voice acting is atrocious, do not play it in English at all, use the Japanese voices, and the    Despite the amazing music by Mitsuda carrying the game, the rest of it falls flat on its face.

    Filled to the brim with generic anime cardboard cutout characters, otaku pandering tropes.
    The character designs present range from extremely bland and forgetabble to extremely try hard at "moe". The voice acting is atrocious, do not play it in English at all, use the Japanese voices, and the repetitiveness of the voice clips is grating. The combat is a real mess of useless combat functions, QTEs and needlessly padding itself out to appear more complex than it actually is. The battles take extremely long too, far more longer than they need to and it makes getting through battles a complete slog where you're just wailing down the enemy sponges while watching autobattle play out. You can't even move when doing autobattle either which makes it even more restrictive. The combat is also very slow compared to the two previous Xenoblade games.

    The graphics are vastly worse than Xenoblade X on the Wii U, which is odd considering the Switch is more powerful than the Wii U, and it takes an even bigger hit when on undocked mode, a blurry pixelated mess with FPS issues across the board.

    The use of different artists doing the character designs creates a huge inconsistency design wise, as everything looks like a mismatched hodpodge of characters like they belong to different games. It's utterly jarring, and the overuse of pervy anime tropes got eye roll worthy real quick.    … Expand
  3. dexMax
    Dec 1, 2017
    1
    Not much needs to said that this game is a step down from previous games in almost every regard like. The visuals are generic, the voice acting is sub par, and the gameplay is just a sloppy messy. If you still have a Wii u I would recommend playing Xenoblade Chronicles X instead because it's not like you would want to play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in handheld mode anyways. Seriously, theNot much needs to said that this game is a step down from previous games in almost every regard like. The visuals are generic, the voice acting is sub par, and the gameplay is just a sloppy messy. If you still have a Wii u I would recommend playing Xenoblade Chronicles X instead because it's not like you would want to play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in handheld mode anyways. Seriously, the visuals in handheld mode are just awful.… Expand
  4. VivaPalestine
    Sep 2, 2021
    3
    There's a solid foundation here, ruined by the excessive sexualization, obnoxious voice acting, and way too heavy handed "lets appeal to all the weebs!" approach.

    XC1 didn't have this same issue imo, but it made this game completely unplayable to me. If this style appeals to you, you'll absolutely love this game [or, more realistically, probably already do]. If you're not an anime girl    There's a solid foundation here, ruined by the excessive sexualization, obnoxious voice acting, and way too heavy handed "lets appeal to all the weebs!" approach.

    XC1 didn't have this same issue imo, but it made this game completely unplayable to me. If this style appeals to you, you'll absolutely love this game [or, more realistically, probably already do]. If you're not an anime girl obsessed person & are easily annoyed? Give this one a hard pass.    … Expand
  5. night4
    Aug 4, 2018
    4
    Pros:
    - Incredible graphics
    - Original story

    Cons:
    - Combat is extremely repetitive and grindy
    - Some mechanics, like canceled attacks, are poorly named and/or unintuitive
    - Cutscenes are too long and too plentiful
    - Plays like a single player MMO
    - Feels like a boring single player MMO
  6. Mmmmph
    May 25, 2018
    4
    This game looks like a Xenoblade game but once you really start looking at it you can kinda see that this game was shambled together to get it out the door for the Switch. There are plenty of mechanics in this game, but so many of them feel like they were put in then somebody shoved them into the game and refused to let the designer do anything interesting with them.

    Then there is the    This game looks like a Xenoblade game but once you really start looking at it you can kinda see that this game was shambled together to get it out the door for the Switch. There are plenty of mechanics in this game, but so many of them feel like they were put in then somebody shoved them into the game and refused to let the designer do anything interesting with them.

    Then there is the map for this game. The map and waypoint system for this game is beyond useless, one of the MAIN STORY QUESTS for the game requires you to go find "dawnview grotto" which is way up on a mountain with one way up. You want to know where it is? You have to climb a tree root, then climb another tree root so narrow it doesn't look like somewhere you're actually intended to walk then you follow the one linear path up to the five items you need to collect. There is only one way to go up and it's just a crappy fetch quest.

    That is so much of a problem with the game, collectathon RPG but without the movement mechanics to back that sort of gameplay up. You' think you're done with this quest? NO you have to pay for this lady to fix her stove because screw you. No matter what the quest is no matter how tiny and insignificant it seems it generally feels like they plucked it out of Vanilla World of Warcraft, stretched out the distance you need to walk and stapled four or five more quests to the end there.

    As an RPG and especially compared to Xenoblade 1 and even Xenoblade X this game feels like I'm eating packets of unflavored bulk dry instant ramen instead of playing an RPG, because NO LADY I DON'T want to fix your goddamn stove and I shouldn't have to pay to fix YOUR stove, and this quest should have ended when i gave you everything you needed to make a pie. In case you're wondering that isn't the only sidequest that pissed me off, it was just the one that stood out the most for how crap it was.    … Expand
  7. AcerolaOrion
    Jun 10, 2022
    0
    Outrageously awful. I cant believe anyone thinks this is good.

    Possibly the worst writing ever put into a video game. Eeeeveeeryyyyone taaaaalks reeaaalllllyyyy ............. slooooooow ........... aaaaand with draaamaaatic ........... paaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuses. Half the characters (Including the main cast) have outrageously thick accents from various areas of britain. Its so bad    Outrageously awful. I cant believe anyone thinks this is good.

    Possibly the worst writing ever put into a video game.
    Eeeeveeeryyyyone taaaaalks reeaaalllllyyyy ............. slooooooow ........... aaaaand with draaamaaatic ........... paaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuses.
    Half the characters (Including the main cast) have outrageously thick accents from various areas of britain. Its so bad that its not longer good but bad again.
    There is sooooo much time wasted on cutscenes with no facial, awful switch graphics and super slow awful voices.

    Stay far far far away. Possibly one of the worst games ever made.    … Expand
  8. fromis
    Jul 26, 2019
    2
    Just finished this game on my Switch and I have to start off by saying I believe this game is not for everyone. Either you're gonna love it or hate it, there's no middle ground, unfortunately I'm in the latter category. Never played any Xenoblade titles before this one and I believe it will be my first and last.

    The story is interesting and it's what kept me playing, even though it    Just finished this game on my Switch and I have to start off by saying I believe this game is not for everyone. Either you're gonna love it or hate it, there's no middle ground, unfortunately I'm in the latter category. Never played any Xenoblade titles before this one and I believe it will be my first and last.

    The story is interesting and it's what kept me playing, even though it contains typical japanese weeabo/loli themes. The music is actually amazing, Mor Ardain night theme has to be my personal favorite.

    However, the combat is absolut garbage, hated every minute of it. If you've ever played an MMO like WoW, it can be compared to raiding, except solo and you use your blades (kinda like pokemons) to perform elemental combos. Only one problem, it's really bad compared to todays MMO combat standards.    … Expand
  9. Kingdomhear
    Apr 23, 2022
    0
    Un pastrugno come l uno...inizia che sembra una bella avventura ..divertente poi diventa tirato e noioso perché devono fare il gioco da 70 ore...sta fissa di fare giochi Infiniti allungati...campi da calcio vuoti da percorrere fino allo sfinimento..bah
  10. Kirillito
    Feb 9, 2021
    3
    After playing previous two games, this one was an extreme disappointment.
    Pros:
    - Beautiful graphics and colorful visuals. - Amazing and inventive world/location design. - Deep and complex RPG system. For casual players it doesn't require any optimization, but if you're playing on harder difficulties, you might need to spend time tweaking all the buffs, and skill settings, and Blade    After playing previous two games, this one was an extreme disappointment.
    Pros:
    - Beautiful graphics and colorful visuals.
    - Amazing and inventive world/location design.
    - Deep and complex RPG system. For casual players it doesn't require any optimization, but if you're playing on harder difficulties, you might need to spend time tweaking all the buffs, and skill settings, and Blade affinities, etc. There are a lot of challenging enemies that can test your setup and skills.
    - Fun and diverse battle system.

    Cons:
    - Boring story. What's worse - it is a long and boring story. A very generic JRPG plot stretched out way too much. For the game that is so imaginative with it's design, the plot is so unoriginal, it's a crime against Xeno-series fans. At least it was cool to look for plot connections with XC1.
    - Questionable character design. I'm Ok with a step back towards more childish anime-style, but why did they make some female characters with such a huge breasts and exposing outfits? Those are distracting and break the immersion.
    - Field skills everywhere. Field skills were Ok in Xenoblade Chronicles X - the requirements to open containers and do some actions were not as often and added a bit more depths to exploration. In XC2 field skills checks are EVERYWHERE. Almost every side-quest, and some progression in main story quests are locked behind a multitude of field skill requirements that can be a pain in the ass to fulfill. But the worst thing, that probably is my main grudge against this game, is MICROMANAGEMENT. It is ridiculous, how much micromanagement with blade switching you have to do in this game just to match field skill requirements with the proper configuration of Blades. Some quests and locations require you to do the same thing several times in a row just because of several field skill checks one after another. Same mind-numbing steps: go to the menu, spend several minutes looking for a Blade with a proper field skill, assign it to the character, repeat with other field skills, go back from the menu, pass the check, then repeat the same steps for the next check. Seriously, out of more than 100 hours spent in this game, I probably spent 5-10 hours just on Blade micromanagement alone.

    Overall, this game was fun to play for a while just for its battle system and visuals. But boring story hours spent on mechanical Blade micromanagement made it unbearable after a while.    … Expand
  11. Ughduty
    Aug 10, 2021
    3
    This game is by my mind highly overrated because of it’s very bad game design. Following a list of what I disliked the most:
    - E.g. the story tells you the time is pressing because the next day something really bad will happen. Next thing you‘ve been told is that to solve this you have to go on some quests that will take several in game days.
    - Some story elements come over as fabricated    This game is by my mind highly overrated because of it’s very bad game design. Following a list of what I disliked the most:
    - E.g. the story tells you the time is pressing because the next day something really bad will happen. Next thing you‘ve been told is that to solve this you have to go on some quests that will take several in game days.
    - Some story elements come over as fabricated like this:
    You need that extremely rare item and the party is standing in the middle of the town and guess what an unknown NPC comes over to you asking you for help and in return you will get that extremely rare item.
    - You get led by the nose to every quest giver and it‘s solution
    - The world is cluttered with icons showing you the way to everything that is important
    - There is an extra store for every little type of equipment so you have tons of stores in every city and their big icons are cluttering the scenery
    - Convoluted battle system
    - Extremely high level monsters roaming the world killing your party with one hit. E.g.:
    My party was around level 8 and in front of them they have open savanna where wildlife around the same level is strolling around. Some are up to level 18 so the party had to run through the land in a zigzag course not to walk into one of these level 18ish monsters. When the party stopped for a sec they got hit by an unseen foe and all got killed by this one hit. Luckily I had saved a few seconds before that and when I loaded the game and looked around to find what killed my party I found a level 81 monster roaming the world in high speed.
    - Bad tutorials leaving you with questions you can only solve by searching the www    … Expand
  12. oopkp
    Feb 23, 2023
    0
    I haven't played this game, but it basically ruined the Switch and had an immensely negative impact on gaming culture. First of all, Smash got 100 times worse when it got flooded with Xenoblade fans. Pyra/Mythra are not only oversexualized, they are also annoying as **** and the most broken characters ever. If you like eating **** and committing war crimes, this might appeal to you, butI haven't played this game, but it basically ruined the Switch and had an immensely negative impact on gaming culture. First of all, Smash got 100 times worse when it got flooded with Xenoblade fans. Pyra/Mythra are not only oversexualized, they are also annoying as **** and the most broken characters ever. If you like eating **** and committing war crimes, this might appeal to you, but this does not tickle my fancy.… Expand
  13. g940672
    Apr 11, 2018
    4
    It's honestly not a very good game compared to the previous 2 games

    Level progression is super slow so the game becomes impossible to progress if you don't want to grind levels for 2 hours and the extremely slow battles make it a bit worse It's not very polished The main protagonist (rex) is just really childish and has pretty bad voice acting, most of the other protagonists are great    It's honestly not a very good game compared to the previous 2 games

    Level progression is super slow so the game becomes impossible to progress if you don't want to grind levels for 2 hours and the extremely slow battles make it a bit worse
    It's not very polished
    The main protagonist (rex) is just really childish and has pretty bad voice acting, most of the other protagonists are great though. He is mainly just pretty annoying
    There are some good things though like the story is pretty interesting, although I didn't finish it because I didn't want to grind levels for 2 hours like I said before.

    On the other hand xenoblade chronicles x is pretty well polished and xenoblade chronicles had great characters and was also pretty well made    … Expand
  14. GenkiYokota
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    One of the worst J-RPG's and a disgrace to the original work of its prequel on the Wii console.
    The amount of fanservice it has is obscene and attentive to the intelligence of the player.
  15. BamcoNandai
    Jul 22, 2021
    0
    Bland, tropey, slow to start. Supposedly gets good after 40 hours but it's not worth the time or money. Characters are all one dimensional and what are supposed to be emotional moments just come off as lame. It took me awhile to pick up this game because I was apprehensive but I honestly wish I had never played this.
  16. OpticMaster56
    Sep 19, 2022
    0
    This game is absolutely awful. I find the gameplay and story awful, and don’t even get me started on the female characters.
  17. Terragon
    Jan 28, 2019
    2
    I've played this for about 70 hours now and I honestly can't continue

    In a nutshell, what started as a promising RPG with a unique take on the world, fight mechanics and various complexities that are usually absent in RPGs, turned into a boring chore with a cheesy Japanese storyline and absolutely abysmal game design choices. The story as you are aware, takes places on large titan    I've played this for about 70 hours now and I honestly can't continue

    In a nutshell, what started as a promising RPG with a unique take on the world, fight mechanics and various complexities that are usually absent in RPGs, turned into a boring chore with a cheesy Japanese storyline and absolutely abysmal game design choices.

    The story as you are aware, takes places on large titan like creatures, that are essentially continents, each filled with various missions and monsters to fight. Despite the idea itself sounding great, what you end up having is a bunch of difficult to track and locate fetch quests, some of which suffer from horrible pathing or from map bugs and some end up taking you through areas you're not ready for. The monsters are all mixed, so you'll always find yourself one shotted by random mobs everywhere.
    The quests for the most part are unimaginative and boring and the main storyline feels like it was written by a prepubescent Japanese high school boy.

    Battle mechanics dont' change almost at all throughout the game, so you will actually be fighting the auto battles with even trash mobs until late parts of the game. This means you have to spend at least a minute of just watching your characters doing cheesy moves and shouting their attack slogans even when fighting a monster 10-20 levels below your level. The scaling in this game is non existent and after fighting 100s of these nonsense encounters, I juts feel like it left me numb.

    The worst part of the game for me personally is the constant cheesy waifu intermissions that are literally so cringy and so out of place that I have no idea whose idea it was to put this into this title. Previous Xenoblade games were serious in their undertone and were so much better executed storyline wise, with this one just being so ridiculous that I can't even bother to care.

    So after 70 hours of struggle and not really wanting to finish this crap anymore, I'm just going to leave this here: it's a good JRPG on paper and you may enjoy it for a bit, but it's horribly made, has some of the worst game designs I've seen in years and is just overall a very dull and boring RPG.

    3/10 is all I'm going to give it, +1 for having a complex and potentially interesting battle system -7 for ruining everything else

    FINAL EDIT: I finished this junk and it only gets worse. The game kept trying to teach tutorials until literally last chapter and there were some parts in the game where you can literally get stuck and not be able to advance if you made certain choices throughout the game in terms of your characters. It's abysmally bad in terms of game design and I can only give it one praise - environments and monsters design.
    The actual storyline and gameplay are horrible. There are several half an hour long cutscenes with the clingiest dialogue I've seen in an RPG and at some point I literally just went to watch a TV show while it was playing.

    This game is HORRIBLE!    … Expand
  18. TsukasaHiiragi
    May 13, 2018
    1
    Pro's

    Interesting game concept and plot Cute Characters Feels like playing an MMo* Con's Suffers from all the problems of being like an MMo* Severe grindfest Unfair game/boss mechanics Too many game mechanics in play Janky controls Buggy sometimes Useless map/compass system Very frustrating to play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is easily one of the worst jrpgs I've played to    Pro's

    Interesting game concept and plot
    Cute Characters
    Feels like playing an MMo*

    Con's

    Suffers from all the problems of being like an MMo*
    Severe grindfest
    Unfair game/boss mechanics
    Too many game mechanics in play
    Janky controls
    Buggy sometimes
    Useless map/compass system
    Very frustrating to play

    Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is easily one of the worst jrpgs I've played to date, and I've played a lot. The reasons are many and unfortunately by the look of the Pfff *user score* alot of paid or fanboi reviews artificially bumping up the score. XBC2 is a beast of a game, tedious, boring and downright frustrating to play, but has charming characters and a great story assuming you can force yourself through the morass of downright obnoxious game designs and flaws.

    XBC2 suffers from having far too many game mechanics in play, the game world being poorly constructed with areas having widely different monsters in them, with extremely huge level gaps which often could pop up and wipe your party at a moments notice if your not paying attention.

    The combat system is unnecessarily and overly complicated with combo after combo after combo being the only real way forward, regular trash mobs often taking several minutes to beat because your arts always reset after each battle making for a substantial uphill grindfest. Consider XBC2 a single player MMO similar to FF14 but with far slower character progression and levelling, this would be the closest explanation on how this game plays out.

    The control system is often janky at best, trying to navigate narrow ledges or jump on certain things often leaves your character bugging out whilst the quest system clearly enforces another very obvious grinder for relatively little rewards, but the player does them anyway because its content even if ultimately time consuming and unrewarding, an early case and point is having to rescue a Nopon from monsters, then fetching wood then going back to the quest giver then finding another Nopon then either paying 30,000 in gold or doing another fetch quest to find rarer wood then going back to the original quest giver for 300g / 200 exp reward and a few measily items, bullcrap like this is unfortunately common.

    The character designs, story plot and sound though are at least par or even above par and for the switch do the system some justice but ultimately are heavily let down by everything else the game has to offer.

    The interesting thing about this game though, it does have the addictive qualities of MMos because it really does feel like your playing on, and that is the only source of fun you'll have most of the time just pretending you'll run into other players to take on a unfair or frustrating raid boss that can cheat or cheese the player resulting in countless wipes until you decide just to overlevel that boss.

    Blade grinding again, is another severe uphill grindfest - not only is there a significant amount of cores to find making it almost like pokemon, you'll have to level and grind them up before they'll even be even remotely useful.    … Expand
  19. Innereye
    Feb 17, 2018
    4
    I was so excited for this game. I was very disappointed with it. The game felt incredibly shallow compared to the first game. The battles are painfully slow and drawn out. They completely removed the premonition system the first game was known for even though they included it in the games story. It felt like they ran out of time, and wanted to include it but fell short. Battles began toI was so excited for this game. I was very disappointed with it. The game felt incredibly shallow compared to the first game. The battles are painfully slow and drawn out. They completely removed the premonition system the first game was known for even though they included it in the games story. It felt like they ran out of time, and wanted to include it but fell short. Battles began to feel like a chore. I wanted to see this story play out, even with all of its faults. But I cannot justify going through 100's of hours of battles when they are so taxing and boring just to see some of the story.

    The characters fall flat and are just shallow. I'm not against tropes, but that is all the characters felt like they had to offer. And if you did not like the voice acting in the first xenoblade, they have done nothing to improve it. The story takes forever to get rolling, and feels padded down with tons of filler. It felt like a cheesy, cringey, first person's anime. Like the most terrible anime you can watch because you just started getting into all of that stuff.

    Don't even get me started on the main character. He felt like he had no emotional connection to the story, and like he is just along for the ride. In all the other games you could see the character struggle and grow from the trauma and loss they experienced. In this one the most he can do is a repetitive "Daaaaamnnn" line.

    Then you'll run into story quests that have a timer. Once in particular either expected you to grind and have great luck in order to get a required skill, or instead send a team of people to do it while you waste away 30 minutes. I don't understand why you would put an app game trapping into a console game like that.

    I wanted to like this game, I loved all of Monolith Soft's previous works in the "Xeno" series. it was my motivation for getting a switch. It was a terrible let down. Do yourself a favor and look into the battle system, watch a few battles online. Watch a trailer or two, and don't just buy the hype. If it still looks fun, then you might have a good time. I was excited, and loved monolith soft's past games, so I really wanted to love this one.    … Expand
  20. Starwolf-001
    Jun 20, 2018
    4
    The result ended with me closing the software and pulling the chip out saying "Why play this when there are more important things to do and many other competent, fun and entertaining games I can play instead."

    Introduction: I was really looking forward to this game and in the end, it's one of the worst RPGs I have ever played in my life. While the game has a lot of good moments to    The result ended with me closing the software and pulling the chip out saying "Why play this when there are more important things to do and many other competent, fun and entertaining games I can play instead."

    Introduction:

    I was really looking forward to this game and in the end, it's one of the worst RPGs I have ever played in my life. While the game has a lot of good moments to keep you going; It is also filled with many frustrating and terribly implemented moments and components.

    Pros:

    * Graphics are visually enjoyable on portable mode for the Switch.
    * Environments and open world terrain is quite beautiful.
    * Like the idea of various accents for the game's characters. Representing how they have come from
    different places in the world.
    * Highly detailed tutorial explains a lot to help new comers.
    * I REALLY like the Empire's soldier's uniform. Looks really nice.

    Cons:

    * Resolution and graphics are painfully terrible and obvious when the Switch is in dock mode.
    Basically up scaling a 720p resolution to a 1080p monitor. ~ Yuck >XP
    * Large open world, once again, filled with nothing with exception to lots of enemies and collection
    points.
    * Who the hell decided to put extremely high level monsters, that move around, right next to batches
    of small, low level monsters? I died so many times simply because I was attacked behind by one of
    these monsters. Really killed the mood and beginning of the game for me.
    * The worst map ever implemented into a game! (Literally the reason why I stopped playing)
    * Game play reminds me of the old auto-attack from Knights of the Old Republic. Just here, it's very
    repetitive and bland. Most enemy engagements take a while to defeat and your selection to
    powers (arts) are limited to 3/4. Not exciting at all.
    * English voice acting is terrible.
    * Subtitles barely ever show up even though the feature is on.
    * Pointless and time consuming quests. Both for the main and side quests.
    * High detailed tutorial is incredibly wordy, numerously appears and still misses important
    components of the game.
    * The humour falls flat. Whether it starts off well or end wells, it always feels mediocre and poorly
    thought out. Worse part is the humour in this game appears way to often and bunch together. One
    joke after another and after another.

    Conclusion:

    I really recommend people save their money instead of playing this. I personally feel like I wasted 13 hours playing this poorly made game when I could have just played Zelda Breathe of the Wild instead which many people love.    … Expand
  21. ReMeredith
    Mar 28, 2021
    0
    One of the worst games I ever played and completed I hoped till the end " maybe it gets better" but sadly no. So there are pöenty of Reviews wich point out all the Problems with the game and I agree witch all of them. The best Thing about this game is that XBC X dosen't Look so bad anymore :D
  22. DolphinReviews
    Jul 21, 2022
    0
    Yeah it’s cringe. Unlikable characters and a boring story. It’s not a very good switch exclusive. You might like it if your attracted to cartoon characters but that’s about it.
  23. mikas323
    Mar 19, 2022
    0
    I loved the graphics but i didn't like the mechanics with blades and voice acting is horrendous...rex is pathetic and with no charm...i hated the main char with all my will...the game is very sexualizated and porn..world map is confuse with alot design flaws....battle is slow and takes alot time to kill normal enemies...
  24. aGrumpyDin0saur
    Mar 4, 2022
    4
    After playing the absolute Masterpiece that is Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition I immediately went out and purchased the sequel expecting it to be not as good as the original but still a great 80/100 time with fluid combat and an epic large-scale story but what I got was a worse experience in every way possible compared to the original. Buckle up because this is gonna be long...After playing the absolute Masterpiece that is Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition I immediately went out and purchased the sequel expecting it to be not as good as the original but still a great 80/100 time with fluid combat and an epic large-scale story but what I got was a worse experience in every way possible compared to the original. Buckle up because this is gonna be long...

    First of all, if you like or even love this game and haven’t played the original on switch then I HIGHLY request you do because maybe you’ll be able to understand where I’m coming from. (This review won’t have story spoilers for the original game).

    To start, combat in this game feels worse, you can no longer identify which enemies are hostile or docile until you get close and see if they attack you or not. In the first game there was a symbol that told you so.
    The game punishes you for moving around an enemy in combat as you can no longer auto attack while moving and not to mention that movement speed in combat is excruciatingly slow making the combat feel sluggish. Normal enemies are complete damage sponges and since they're normal enemies, they're not hard fights. So, I always found myself in easy, unengaging and long fights. however, the boss battles seem fine to me since they actually pose a challenge (sometimes).
    AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THAT STUPID GACHA MECHANIC! this game feels like its design to be a mobile game with the slow-paced progression and gacha mechanics.

    The story feels like a first draft accompanied by plot holes and unanswered questions. I would like to over them, but I want this to be a spoiler free review. Admittedly I didn’t beat the game (because I couldn’t stand the combat anymore) so I watched the rest of the games cutscenes on YouTube so I might be missing something important story wise, but I doubt it since I was over 80% done.

    To start, the protagonist (Rex) is actually the worst protagonist I have ever witness, he is a reckless baby that gets bailed out of trouble MULTIPLE TIMES by other cast members and instead of facing consequences or reflect on his behavior he gets rewarded by gaining more power to use in combat. Rex’s english voice acting is cringeworthy whenever he's in combat. it would've been nice if Rex's arc was about growing up and owning responsibility but nope, a baby biggening to end with no character arc whatsoever.
    Two more nit-picks about Rex, in combat he’ll sometimes UNIRONICALLY say “We’ll beat them, with the power of friendship!” Like come on. Also type in “bad character design” on google and guess who’ll show up.
    Nintendo must've thought they struck gold with that design considering its in Smash and BOTW.

    I also want to talk about the female lead Pyra for a bit. All I have to say is that she has a personality of a cup of distilled water and she’s the biggest waifu bait I’ve ever seen in a game and judging by the amount of Pyra profile pictures I see on YouTube comments and live streams I can say those people took it hook, line, and sinker.
    I won’t be talking about the over sexualization of women in this review but I what it to be known that because of it I can’t take the majority of the female cast seriously.

    So, what do I think this game did right? Some of the locations are pretty (only on docked mode) (and only some locations because a lot of them are drab looking). The OST is a banger, there are some side characters I actually like aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s it. Not to mention the numerous annoyances I decided to leave out. If you learned anything from this review hopefully it’s that you get the original instead.    … Expand
  25. thecasualgaymer
    Feb 16, 2021
    1
    I feel like I'm missing out on an inside joke about why everyone loves this game so much. I was excited to try out its fantastic gameplay I've heard so much about, and yet found myself bored or revolted almost every second of the 25+ hours I put into it, with the single exception of enjoying a beautifully crafted world.

    It's tutorials are awful and endless, but what really killed it for    I feel like I'm missing out on an inside joke about why everyone loves this game so much. I was excited to try out its fantastic gameplay I've heard so much about, and yet found myself bored or revolted almost every second of the 25+ hours I put into it, with the single exception of enjoying a beautifully crafted world.

    It's tutorials are awful and endless, but what really killed it for me was the characters and story. I may have eventually enjoyed combat if I had stuck with it long enough, but I was unable to watch (or listen to) the horrid character designs that looked like they were made by a horny 13 year old and unable to listen to voice acting so bad I'm convinced someone got conned by the actors who did it.

    As a usual fan of JRPGs, I was massively disappointed.    … Expand
  26. aGrumpyDin0
    Dec 7, 2021
    3
    After playing the absolute Masterpiece that is Xenoblade Chronicles DE I went out and purchased the sequel expecting it to be not as good as the original but still a great time with fluid combat and a epic large scale story but what I got was a worse experience in every way possible. Buckle up cause this is gonna be long...

    First of all... if you love this game and haven’t played the    After playing the absolute Masterpiece that is Xenoblade Chronicles DE I went out and purchased the sequel expecting it to be not as good as the original but still a great time with fluid combat and a epic large scale story but what I got was a worse experience in every way possible. Buckle up cause this is gonna be long...

    First of all... if you love this game and haven’t played the original on switch then I HIGHLY REQUEST you do because maybe you’ll be able to understand where I’m coming from. (This review won’t have story spoilers for the original game). To start, combat in this game is objectively worse, you can no longer identify which enemies are hostile or docile until you get close and see if they attack you or not. In the first game there was a symbol that told you so.
    The game punishes you for moving around a enemy in combat as you can no longer auto attack while moving unlike the first game, making the combat feel sluggish.
    The moves you manually use in XBC games are called “Arts”. In the first game you had 8+ different Arts and you can use them immediately at the start of any battle. In XBC2 you can only use three different Arts at a time and you can’t use them immediately until dozens of hours into the game so you can unlock the ability to do so, making the combat feel restricted.
    Normal battles take WAY longer than the original and since the stat boosts from leveling up are not as impactful as the original, it makes the game more grindy and time consuming. So in short, the combat is more sluggish, restricted and grindy. The story feels like a first draft accompanied by plot holes and unanswered questions unlike the first game which tied everything together perfectly an satisfactorily. Admittedly I didn’t beat the game (because I couldn’t stand the combat anymore) so I watched the rest of the games cutscenes on YouTube so I might be missing something important story wise but I doubt it since I was over 80% done. To start, the protagonist (Rex) is awful, he is a reckless baby that gets bailed out of trouble MULTIPLE TIMES by other cast members and instead of facing consequences or reflect on his behavior he gets rewarded by gaining more power to use in combat unlike Shulk in XBC1 who takes great responsibility of his power and considers the consequences before using said power. Rex’s voice acting is cringeworthy whenever he lets out a battle cry and in one cutscene he was talking somewhat calmly but was flailing and panicking in the cutscene ALSO unlike Shulk who’s voice acting is AMAZING! Two more things about Rex, in combat he’ll sometimes UNIRONICALLY say “We’ll beat them, with the power of friendship!”. Also type in “bad character design” on google and guess who’ll show up. I also want to talk about the female lead Pyra. All I have to say is that she has a personality of a cup of distilled water and she’s the biggest waifu bait I’ve ever seen in a game and judging by the amount of Pyra profile pictures I see on YouTube comments and live streams I can say those people took it hook, line, and sinker. I won’t be talking about the over sexualization of women in this review but I what it to be known that because of it I can’t take the majority of the female cast seriously. (Skip ahead a paragraph to avoid vague/minor spoilers) Moving onto the main villain of the game... he was supposed to be a “twist villain” but it was so predictable for me, and later on Rex and friends asks why he’s doing the things he’s doing he says something along the lines of bECaUse iM tHe bAD GuY cAuSE Im bORn BAd BecAuSE IM ThE BAD GUUUUUUUUUY!
    The main villain in the first game was good because they actually had logic and reasoning to go with their plan rather than blind hatred. One of the other villains of the game is too edgy it hurts. Speaking of the same villain, He could’ve killed Rex and any other form of opposition in quick work but just chooses not to until it’s too late because he let Rex get too powerful.

    In short, I don’t like the villains... and that also goes for a TON of the side characters. So what do I think this game did right? Some of the locations are pretty and jaw dropping (only on docked mode) (and only some locations because a lot of them are drab looking). The OST is a banger, there are some characters I actually like aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s it. If you learned anything from this review hopefully it’s that you get the original instead.    … Expand
  27. KazutoKirigaya
    Aug 20, 2022
    0
    Come on no body can tell me that the bosses in this game are fair or cool! Every Boss on this game is a piece of **** I The game but the Bosses are trash.
  28. vora_bat
    Jan 1, 2018
    4
    This game is weak .It is weak in so many aspects. The combat is boring and slow. The story-line is simple and blank. Characters are cringe. The game feels like a bad anime. I don't understand how an adult person can like this game.
  29. vape
    Feb 14, 2018
    3
    Yeah this game is not something i'd recomend to a lot of people unless you want to see anime boobs but don't know what a google is. Let's just cut the **** gameplay is a bore, story is very poorly acted by the protagonists, though the antagonists surprisingly had good acting. The music is top notch but you barely hear it in game since your party never stops shouting pointless voicelines,Yeah this game is not something i'd recomend to a lot of people unless you want to see anime boobs but don't know what a google is. Let's just cut the **** gameplay is a bore, story is very poorly acted by the protagonists, though the antagonists surprisingly had good acting. The music is top notch but you barely hear it in game since your party never stops shouting pointless voicelines, The way you unlock blades is extremely boring, the worlds look kindof nice but then you realize the grass renders well within the camera and that looks really bad, exploration is kinda boring as movement in this game is quite slow and uninteresting, the story is good and bad, the bad guys are alright like jin and malos, but then the protagonists are just not well acted and not very well written, pyra is very boring, rex is both boring and annoying, nia is alright i guess but her voice acting is pretty bad. Morag has alright voice acting and brighid is an alright written character, i like the diary thing with her. If you like being bored, you'd probably love this game, but for me i'd much rather just sleep, i finished the game and beat the final boss and i still felt the gameplay was just boring.… Expand
  30. Sharebear420
    Jun 7, 2019
    1
    Too much anime bullcrap and mediocre characters. Not only is there cringe fan service but
  31. Clean
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    Xenoblade 2 is an horrible game.
    -Bad, grindy and repetitive combat system. Seriously, I hate auto-attacks.
    -Bad map design. How could Monolith design a great Hyrule in Botw but a sh*tty Alrest is beyond me. -Bad Gacha mechanics, unfitting for a non-F2P game. -Field Skills suck and the kill the game's flow. -Mercenary missions are repetitive. -Like the 1st one, most of the game's    Xenoblade 2 is an horrible game.
    -Bad, grindy and repetitive combat system. Seriously, I hate auto-attacks.
    -Bad map design. How could Monolith design a great Hyrule in Botw but a sh*tty Alrest is beyond me.
    -Bad Gacha mechanics, unfitting for a non-F2P game.
    -Field Skills suck and the kill the game's flow.
    -Mercenary missions are repetitive.
    -Like the 1st one, most of the game's sidequests are fetch quests.
    -Su much anti-Qol elements. For example, Merc Missions can be cleared only with in-game time, not real time. So, If you start an 15 minute mission, close the game with 10 minutes left and return to it 10 minutes later, You'll still have 10 minutes left. Seriously?
    -Tutorials suck, they don't explain game mechanics well... and you cannot re-view them!
    -Graphics are bad. Also, who thought giving different artist for different characters in a 3D game was a good idea? Characters feel imported from other games, they clash with each other and the rest of the game, making the game's style inconsistent. Same goes for NPCs.
    -Portable mode is just... argh, my eyes are bleeding!!!
    -English voice acting is earbleeding.
    -Battle lines are repetitive.
    -Too much irritating anime stereotypes, clichès and tropes that ruin the story.
    -Character design sucks sh*t, especially Rex, Pyra and Mythra.
    -Characters are stereotyped and unlikeable. I dislike the entire cast, especially Rex, Pyra and Mythra. I hate them with a burning passion!
    -Excessive fanservice, like moments where the camera pans on Pyra and Mythra's bodies, even in serious moments. This is a game made by perverts for perverts! Disgusting!
    -All of the forementioned story and character-related flaws make the game a cringefest.
    The only good qualities of Xenoblade 2 are the music and the world's atmosphere, but those two aren't without flaws, too: for example, I hate the music you hear in the infamous Mythra sleepwalking scene.
    Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is not only the worst game I've ever played on Switch, but also one of the worst games I've ever played in my entire life. I hate it with a burning passion, I regret buying it. Had I the chance, I would not onlt go back in time and avoid buying it, I'd try to delete it from existence!
    I've played 1 and X too, and while I disliked them too 2 was leagues worser. To be honest, I realized I never actually liked Xenoblade games: other games or even watching stones are more entertaining than this smoking sh*t of franchise. At this point, I'll definitively skip 3 (and I'm glad I'm skipping it looks like some people are disliking this too). I think this franchise is overrated, as well their developer Monolith Soft (but not when they make other NIntendo games as I love BotW), and I think they should stop with Xenoblade and make something completely new and fun, not another niche garbage like Xenoblade.
    In closure, I absolutely advise you to NOT BUY Xenoblade Chronicles 2. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!    … Expand
  32. Ayumi324
    May 30, 2019
    4
    HONEST REVIEW - NO BIAS - NO FANBOY

    To begin with, this is my first time playing a game in this franchies.- I've played final fantasy games, i've played tales games.- i've had every single nintendo / playstation console as well as played a lot of PC games. So an actual honest Review. Now for starters. what you can expect. Story, It is excellent, nothing to say there. Combat.    HONEST REVIEW - NO BIAS - NO FANBOY

    To begin with, this is my first time playing a game in this franchies.- I've played final fantasy games, i've played tales games.- i've had every single nintendo / playstation console as well as played a lot of PC games. So an actual honest Review.

    Now for starters. what you can expect. Story, It is excellent, nothing to say there.

    Combat. Horrific. This game is like Runescape.- you can't even hit while walking you must remain still.- and let the fight play out, and then as you hit, you build up gauge, which you spend to use on special attacks "Arts" the worst part is, let's say 3 enemies front of you, you killed the first one? Bam.- your gauge is reset. it's pathetic really to kill 3x enemies where gauge resets every single time so you can't use your arts, and just have to watch your dude auto them super boring. I swear i felt asleep several times, but promised a friend to play it for the story, so i did.

    Game Mechanics : You can jump, that's cool, but when you are climbing ladders, walls , you must wait as if it is a game belonging to the 90's you played zelda botw? fine you can jump while climbing. this is QoL update really, - they love to waste your time it's a game made december 2017, so i call it a 2018 game.- and they never heard of fast climb.

    while you play. you get 99 notifications. and the game thinks you wish to read everything 24/7. the worst part is that, it doesn't just explain you tutorial, it talks to you as if you have an AI partner who wants to remind you of things. "Btw did you know" "Oh yeah you should totally do this" it's just waste of everyone's time.- like they type so much I fking forget daheck the hint was to begin with. So i'm like thanks for talking so much daheck were you saying again?

    So yes.- this game, has a story, You will enjoy it, it's cool, characters are amazing. but seriously. when it comes to gameplay. it could fking use a huge upgrade.

    This is my honest review, 0 % **** everyone who disagree's with me are just fanboys. except i'll accept if they enjoy the combat system. that's alright personal preference, but these clunky gameplay.- no way, you have to lie to admit that it's actually a good idea.    … Expand
  33. jyphel
    Jan 5, 2023
    0
    Worst Jrpg all of 3, cheating IA, monsters of 50+lvl popping from behind killing you in an instant , monsters falling in an instant from the sky, convoluted system obliging you to go and forth all over the world to lvl blades. And on and on... side content is obliged due to the convoluted systems in the game;

    All 3 are the worst Jrpg on all consoles. They re lucky to be on Switch.
  34. nhughes
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    Very hard to get into this game. I couldn't play for longer than 30 minutes.
    If you enjoy good games like COD i'd stick away from these types of games. The graphics are shocking.
  35. rainbowcoating
    Aug 24, 2022
    1
    1/10 absolute **** game. The only saving grace is the graphics but even that falls apart, cause the game doesn't let u **** play without interrupting with some bogus tutorial or cut scene. Speaking of cut scenes, the voice acting is horrendous and the character models make me want to kill myself. Even the combat is **** but that's to be expected considering it is a jrpg. Would not recommend.
  36. Endrance09
    Jan 1, 2018
    0
    Mediocre Game with turtle paced story. Combat gets decent near the end and my god the English Dub sucks ass. Whoever gave the green light for the VA choices in this game should be shot and hanged.
    They went from a great game in Xenoblade Chronicles 1 to a generic lowest common denominator shounen anime fan servicey game. WTF. Way to lose more customers than gain some. SMH
  37. naiper
    Feb 20, 2018
    4
    Time is limited, why should I waste my time on so many anti-human details? You can only summon one blade once and when you summon a blade, you have to see the blade shining several seconds. The main character is very naive and shallow, the Xenoblade Chronicles IP is ruined by the game.
  38. foolishgenius
    Dec 3, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It has all the advantages of JRPG, but also has all the disadvantages of JRPG.
    Out of date, side quests are meaningless and boring, fight system is complicated but boring.
    It is nearly perfect JRPG game, but except the story, it is just a boring game.    … Expand
  39. rrafemi
    Aug 26, 2018
    4
    El juego está roto.

    Enemigos 5, 10 o 15 niveles por debajo del mío que me matan de 2 golpes, pero el siguiente enemigo, siendo el mismo, le mato yo de 2 golpes. (no, no son de esos especiales que tienen un contador de tiempo) Todos mis personajes tienen blades sanadores, pero ninguno sana. De hecho tuve que quitar un blade de los raros de mi personaje para poner uno genérico, ya que    El juego está roto.

    Enemigos 5, 10 o 15 niveles por debajo del mío que me matan de 2 golpes, pero el siguiente enemigo, siendo el mismo, le mato yo de 2 golpes. (no, no son de esos especiales que tienen un contador de tiempo)

    Todos mis personajes tienen blades sanadores, pero ninguno sana. De hecho tuve que quitar un blade de los raros de mi personaje para poner uno genérico, ya que éste no tenía un solo ataque que diera pociones y los especiales tampoco regeneraban salud (entonces no entiendo que tiene de sanador)

    Todos mis aliados se pasan por el forro de los cojones cuando aprieto el botón de concentrar el ataque sobre un enemigo, cada uno ataca al que le da la gana, siempre, da igual cuentas veces apriete el botón. Esto significa que la fuerza se mi grupo se dispersa y yo muero porque todos los enemigos tienden a buscarme a mi. Ello unido al punto anterior que los blades no sanan, pues siempre acabo huyendo cuando hay 2 o más enemigos.

    Encima a partir del capítulo 6 el juego empieza a exigir al jugador que los blades tengan conocimientos de viento, superfuerza, conocimiento antiguo... algo que debería ser opcional y estar reservado para las misiones secundarias porque lo único que hace es frenarte de golpe el avance del juego y tener que perder el tiempo con estupideces como buscar insectos para desbloquear esas habilidades.

    todo esto convierte el juego en una experiencia de lo mas frustrante    … Expand
  40. zstzstzsta
    Mar 15, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad battle mode
    Bad map
    Bad story
    Bad chest
    Stupid Designer

    1 for breasts
    1 for music    … Expand
  41. Ardulac
    Jul 24, 2019
    3
    This is a boring, mediocre game that is incredibly overhyped. I loved the original Xenoblade and Xenogears (and thought the Xenosaga games were okay) and my favorite games of all time are RPGs like FFVI and Chrono Trigger.

    The art style of this game makes me cringe and I felt like I needed to apologize to anyone who entered the room while I was playing it. They could have easily toned    This is a boring, mediocre game that is incredibly overhyped. I loved the original Xenoblade and Xenogears (and thought the Xenosaga games were okay) and my favorite games of all time are RPGs like FFVI and Chrono Trigger.

    The art style of this game makes me cringe and I felt like I needed to apologize to anyone who entered the room while I was playing it. They could have easily toned down the sexuality of the game without diminishing anything except the pervier humor elements (like characters ogling each other like they were about to start bleeding from the nose). If any of this felt necessary to the characters or their development, then I might be able to accept it but it is clearly just added as an uncomfortable sort of fan service.

    The story is boring and predictable and involves several variations on the "cut scene fight where the good guys are getting dunked on, followed by them learning an important lesson about friendship/perseverance/sacrifice and winning" trope. Even for people who enjoy that trope, it is massively overdone. The game is also full of pointless side quests and time sinks to keep you playing the game even if you aren't actually making any complicated decisions or tactical choices. The combat has a little tactical depth, but you can't access most of the actual options until hours into the game as they slowly trickle mechanics to you. I played this game for over 80 hours and eventually realized I never enjoyed it and was just lured into continuing to play in order to complete it.    … Expand
  42. Pasiv
    Feb 25, 2022
    0
    I rarely write a review but this game really deserve it. The world is amazing, characters and some story situations are really very funny (like when Rex said that Pyra is heavy and she cried). It remind me old school jrpg from psx. It remind me also style of FinalFantasy which was my most favorite jrpg in the past. I had no idea before buying how good this game is.
  43. CaptainCharisma
    Aug 7, 2022
    1
    Story, character design and script is cringey, nothing like Xenoblade 1 and X.
  44. yigeguangtou
    Nov 12, 2022
    0
    I like the game as a whole, but the design of the different blade growth system has destroyed many annoying conditions of the game. I've had enough
  45. bluekieran
    Jan 29, 2018
    4
    I don't understand why this game is rated so highly (unless the site reviews were written by 12yo boys), there's some good stuff there but getting to it feels like swimming through ****

    The dialogue and accompanying animation is babyish, like a children's cartoon, the interface is somewhat clunky, the gameplay is chock full of skinner box elements and QTEs, the budding romance (I'm    I don't understand why this game is rated so highly (unless the site reviews were written by 12yo boys), there's some good stuff there but getting to it feels like swimming through ****

    The dialogue and accompanying animation is babyish, like a children's cartoon, the interface is somewhat clunky, the gameplay is chock full of skinner box elements and QTEs, the budding romance (I'm still in chapter 3, and unlikely to continue) is also right out of a kid's cartoon, except that the female characters are modelled and dressed as porn stars rather than anything you'd want to show a kid. What a mess.    … Expand
  46. Thedeadaremany
    Jan 7, 2018
    4
    I loved Xenoblade Chronicles and even enjoyed X but this game has so many critical flaws that have undermined imo the countless hours that must of gone into making it. It is one of those games that I started off enjoying but by the end could not wait to finish. Once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed the combat system but the the average combat takes way to long and quickly becomeI loved Xenoblade Chronicles and even enjoyed X but this game has so many critical flaws that have undermined imo the countless hours that must of gone into making it. It is one of those games that I started off enjoying but by the end could not wait to finish. Once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed the combat system but the the average combat takes way to long and quickly become tedious.

    The previous games had clear maps, ways of tracking side quests, plus achievements and the collepedia which made exploring these huge worlds fun and rewarding. I love fully completing RPG’s but in Xenoblade 2, I released after 40 hours or so playing that doing the side stuff is completely pointless, tedious and frustrating.

    The main character is complete dud both personality wise and character design. The huge boobed Pyra and Bridget are just stupid looking and make you feel like your in some **** teenage boy’s fantasy. The villains are also dull except for the ok Jin. The plot is ridiculous even by JRPG standards and by the end I wanted them all to die, I like crazy plots being a big fan of Metal Gear but this games plot is just bucket loads of boring stupid nonsense.

    I feel sorry for devopment crew as there really is a lot of stellar world and monster design in this game but I imagine most gamers will ignore the swathes of content to make a bee line for the ending. I was really looking forward to XB2 but it is really is a waste of your time as the directors juvenile vision and scripting have ruined what could of been a brilliant game.

    The high reviews from critics and users are puzzling and I wonder if they really have only played 20 or 30 hours of this game. Early on I would of given this game 7 or 8. But the deeper you go the worse it gets. If after a full play through people genuinely enjoy this game well good for them but I cannot understand the love for this deeply flawed time suck of a game. I want those waisted hours back.    … Expand
  47. rynab
    Feb 12, 2019
    0
    The first Xenoblade has been my all-time favourite game since I first played it many years ago. When I first heard a sequel was to be released I was skeptical, given how perfectly wrapped up the story of the first game was, but I was determined to give it a chance. The artstyle left a bad taste in my mouth from the start but I let it slide in hopes that it would tell a good story. AndThe first Xenoblade has been my all-time favourite game since I first played it many years ago. When I first heard a sequel was to be released I was skeptical, given how perfectly wrapped up the story of the first game was, but I was determined to give it a chance. The artstyle left a bad taste in my mouth from the start but I let it slide in hopes that it would tell a good story. And after getting through every unbearable generic trope filled scene complete with abhorrent voice acting, I can say with complete sincerety that Xenoblade 2 is nothing but an insult to the whole Xeno series. The character design is all over the place which makes being imersed in the world near impossible, characters clash with the settings and eachother, and many of the characters are glaringly designed with only fanservice in mind. The voice acting is another thing that takes me out of it. Half the time they sound like they have no idea what emotion theyre supposed to be feeling. Even voice actors that I know are good, sound terrible in this game. And acting aside, the writing of the characters is so weak and boring I couldn't bring myself to aftually like any of them. Few have any substance beyond their given cliché trope, and whats there leaves much to be desired. The story is shallow and very poorly paced, and its unnecessarily convoluted to give a shoddy illusion of real depth. There is so much wasted time in almost every scene, even in key moments which totally ruins any emotional momentum that was built up. And speaking of ruining the moment, too often the choice of music (or complete lack of music) for an emotional or otherwise important scene would totally clash with what was going on. The soundtrack is one of the few things this game has going for it, and they still managed to ruin scenes with a poor choice in songs. The story is all over the place, the antagonists have shaky motivations--if you can even call them motivations--and it takes concepts that were very well done in the first game and turns them into a lifeless mockery. The main cast is nothing but your run of the mill dime-a-dozen anime cast with nothing particularly memorable about them. It was hard to find any reasom to want them to succeed except for the fact that as the heros of the story they're meant to. And to top it all off the ending gives you one of the dryest, most boring cutscenes of the whole game. It retcons the end of the first game, because the story of 2 can't fit into the canon as it is, further showing this game was a poorly planned cashgrab using the popularity of the series name. The end is unsatisfying, and leaves you feeling like you've accomplished nothing. Xenoblade 2 is a waste of time and a waste of money.… Expand
  48. RandomGuy110
    May 9, 2020
    0
    Honestly almost gave a zero, game takes forever to actually pull you in, the beginning is slow and all you do are go-fetch type quests. You just get sent around with no real meaning than, “find the world tree” which isn’t even all that interesting of an area, characters are dull, voice acting is bad, gameplay is bad. You just get sent around in massive areas with the only saving graceHonestly almost gave a zero, game takes forever to actually pull you in, the beginning is slow and all you do are go-fetch type quests. You just get sent around with no real meaning than, “find the world tree” which isn’t even all that interesting of an area, characters are dull, voice acting is bad, gameplay is bad. You just get sent around in massive areas with the only saving grace being that “it looks pretty” which doesn’t sell for good gameplay. The areas are all boring, you just run around with some battles or quests here or there, and that’s it.Combat is uninteresting.… Expand
  49. woaimiyabi
    Nov 10, 2022
    0
    The story of the game is very general. The design of female characters is eye-catching and the game content is rich, but the design of different blade skills is annoying. This design intentionally increases the game duration. The UI interaction is very poor. Every time I open the menu, it drives me crazy. It would be better to change a male owner. In general, xc2 only has map design andThe story of the game is very general. The design of female characters is eye-catching and the game content is rich, but the design of different blade skills is annoying. This design intentionally increases the game duration. The UI interaction is very poor. Every time I open the menu, it drives me crazy. It would be better to change a male owner. In general, xc2 only has map design and music that I like. Other things have many disadvantages for me… Expand
  50. Aeruelious
    Dec 9, 2017
    4
    I have played both previous titles. This game ruins all chance of this getting a fourth. The weakness is the voice acting. By far the worst main character i have ever heard and ruins every interaction. He makes vanille from ff13 and the wierd dumpling creatures in xenoblade chronicles x a delight. Take that in for a second. If you can deal without a story or disliking an other wiseI have played both previous titles. This game ruins all chance of this getting a fourth. The weakness is the voice acting. By far the worst main character i have ever heard and ruins every interaction. He makes vanille from ff13 and the wierd dumpling creatures in xenoblade chronicles x a delight. Take that in for a second. If you can deal without a story or disliking an other wise likeable character due to his voice or the girl supporting character. You will probably enjoy this title.… Expand
  51. JerryBorjon
    Oct 24, 2018
    0
    With an overabundance of tropes, cliches, and a lack of character development, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of the biggest disappointments of the year. The story was boring, the gameplay is riddled with bad game design, and most of the characters stick to their overused archetypes like molecules. Do not waste your time with this disappointment of a game.
  52. pkjoohwan
    May 11, 2018
    1
    The game system and game play is too poor.
    It's battle system is poor than WOW.
  53. Matinski
    Jan 3, 2018
    2
    I will keep this short but could go on and on in detail;

    1. HORRIBLE and I mean really horrible voices/voice acting - laughable 2. Ps2 quality graphics for a lot of the content (characters look good) 3. Map and quest finder is really confusing 4. Confusing... when I say confusing I mean it is simple in principle but it is like playing an onion. If you don't do this to make that    I will keep this short but could go on and on in detail;

    1. HORRIBLE and I mean really horrible voices/voice acting - laughable
    2. Ps2 quality graphics for a lot of the content (characters look good)
    3. Map and quest finder is really confusing
    4. Confusing... when I say confusing I mean it is simple in principle but it is like playing an onion. If you don't do this to make that happen to make this build to make that work... it is stupid. It is as if someone said "we have a good thing... now lets make it more complicated than it needs to be so we can suck the fun out of it"

    I only wish I could return this game. Truly a shame as it could have been amazing! SO many fanboys would lie to you and make you believe it is amazing.    … Expand
  54. kamhagh
    Feb 28, 2019
    0
    Really perverted. Bad portable mode. bad combat. too much information shoved in your face for you too enjoy the game
  55. guitarfred
    Aug 13, 2019
    0
    Actually xenoblade 2 would be a wonderful game. BUT, the fighting system is so bad! Exclusively Quicktime events ..... what I hate about it? you always have to gaze at the edge of the screen instead of being able to observe the wonderfully animated figures. Since the coolest graphic helps nothing if you have to focus on something else. Too bad.....
  56. Terresius
    Jun 27, 2018
    2
    so. i love xenoblade chronicle 1 and x both where extraordinary, but xenoblade chronicle 2 was a pure joke. there why
    i have now 90 hours in the game and their my concern
    the good the break, topple, launch, smash is crazy enjoyable to perform the blade combo are very satisfying when you finally understand how they are suppose to work (took me 60 hours). the story look great, i'm at    so. i love xenoblade chronicle 1 and x both where extraordinary, but xenoblade chronicle 2 was a pure joke. there why
    i have now 90 hours in the game and their my concern
    the good
    the break, topple, launch, smash is crazy enjoyable to perform
    the blade combo are very satisfying when you finally understand how they are suppose to work (took me 60 hours).
    the story look great, i'm at chapter 5 only and the side quest are interesting
    the legendary blade are very interesting
    the world aesthetic is quit nice
    the music is good

    the bad
    the whole art system. they are all the same but just some variation in how they will do more damage. only rare are those that give the player the opportunity to heal. where are the aura? where are the basic art combo?
    Blade switch system: because that thing is very ugly, and that all art are the same but for the break, topple, launch, smash and the 2 healing art, the only strategy is. spam all your offensive art from your first blade, when a miraculous break statue appear perform the topple,launch, smash then go back to the first blade to wait for the next break. some time do the special
    level design: the level design of that title is terrible.
    the marked objective
    the lake of depth into the Npc

    the ugly:
    the AI: basically nia is a healer that never heal even if you give her 3 healing blade, your ally while never try to do intelligent basic thing like using their break art when it's ready.

    the compass. the compass get me more lost then not following it. it so bad that some time it show that the objective is in front of you while in fact the objective is in back of you. I still don't understand how it work after 90 hours

    the art system: why using 3 different blade while they all do the same thing and you have to count 3 hit before using an art? so actually my art is already ready to use after the third hit so just using the back slash equivalent is sufficient.

    the field Skill:
    some time you swapped 1 blade and then loose 1 field skill that is needed during talking quest. that is very heretating.    … Expand
  57. jotoer
    Aug 4, 2019
    2
    This game is wayyy too complex for a typical JRPG-lover like me. I expectet it to be a simple but beautiful journey. But it was more like a Dark Souls with a heavily complex combat-system. I got killed for over an hour again and again before the first city and didn't get the combat mechanics at all.

    Now I have to sell it for half the price. NO REVIEW did mention this. So be warned!
  58. someHermit
    Mar 9, 2018
    1
    This is one of if not the worst game(s) I've ever had the displeasure of wasting $60 on. The only reviews i found for this game before purchasing it were written by die hard fan boys how would gladly suck this games dick for days at a time if it possessed one calling it a "stunning master piece" while only really going into depth on the environments and nothing else. Speaking of which, theThis is one of if not the worst game(s) I've ever had the displeasure of wasting $60 on. The only reviews i found for this game before purchasing it were written by die hard fan boys how would gladly suck this games dick for days at a time if it possessed one calling it a "stunning master piece" while only really going into depth on the environments and nothing else. Speaking of which, the environments are needlessly big and that coupled with a way-point system that is vastly inferior to other such games more than a decade it's senior ( Ex. Borderlands 2) and if that weren't bad enough there is an area in one of the games maps that it totally inacessable unless you manage to fall down there and miraculously not die whivh i managed to do and i found just as filled with enemies as anywhere else and that moment was when it became clear to me that most of this games develpment was completely focused on its environment which explains the severe lack of polish the game so clearly suffers from. The combat system while i will admit is extremely satisfying (far more so than xenoblade Chronicles. X) most of the necessary combat mechanics are left up to figure out for themselves as the tutorials are just long and drawn-out bricks of text that: do a poor job explaining how battle is to be conducted efficiency, do not test out your understanding of said mechanic unlike many other games in the same genre (ex. Southpark: The stick of truth, Persona 5, etc), and unlike these games the tutorials are not rereadable AND on top of that the A.I. for both friends and foes is totally incompitant with me being able to sneak past many foes who were practically stairing me right in the face and with my healer barely doing her damn job. The voice acting is some of the worst i've ever heard in a video game with performaces ranging from mediocore to down right awful with the english script not being much better awkward-lines-a-plenty and the absolute butchering of even the most common of englsh phrases however there is a
    free japanese voice pack that clears this problem right way. The story i'll admit is VASTLY superoir to that of the previous xenoblade instalment with the sound track along being leagues better as well as far less anoying with the sound actually being adjustable this time around. Another thing i'll give this game is the design of the games many blades with even the lower quality blades all feeling unique much like the plethera of guns in the Borderlands games and the higher quality blades all have very unique and creative designs, however even with all this in mind and the fact that i was just literal inches away from finally completing the story i couldn't stop myself from become fed up with the sheer wieght of this game's flaws (many of which i have not listed here due to the fact that i'd rather put this disappointment behind me as fast as i possibly can) which like many other games of its sort only grow worse and more apparent as the story progresses and promptly wiping every last trace of this abortion of a game from my switches harddrive including the save data as i have no intentions of ever returning to the world of alrest and if im being honest this game just seems like it was designed by pretentious art student who really just wanted to make an anime (which i would totally watch if they obtained better voice actors and a better translator).    … Expand
  59. lordrahl
    Aug 21, 2018
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. it is extremely frustrating, high level monsters will agro you out of nowhere and you will die thousands of times for no **** reason at all. Also the map system absolutely sucks in this game, i've been wandering around for the past 5 hours trying to figure out where to go and I still haven't found the place. It's confusing and poorly made, don't waste your money like I did.
  60. Tahdar
    Dec 2, 2017
    4
    Bad gameplay (is better the game play of the Xenoblade 1 from Wii and DS).
    Bad history.
    Bad translation to English.
    Bad graphics.
    If you want a JRPG you must play Xenoblade 1 or X. This game is not really for you if you have been play the 1st or X.
    It is a game of 5 but it has DLCs (-1)
  61. Adules
    Dec 11, 2017
    1
    GAMEPLAY: Game barely handles 30fps. Every game mechanic is poorly tutorialized (despite the numerous tutorials) and horribly designed and has no respect for player's time.

    Blades are basically like a cross between party members and equitable weapons. Your weapons come in the form of essentially 'spirits' which fight with you in combat. There are about 25 unique characters you can get,    GAMEPLAY: Game barely handles 30fps. Every game mechanic is poorly tutorialized (despite the numerous tutorials) and horribly designed and has no respect for player's time.

    Blades are basically like a cross between party members and equitable weapons. Your weapons come in the form of essentially 'spirits' which fight with you in combat. There are about 25 unique characters you can get, all with distinct personalities and storylines. The issue here is that except for the few you get as part of the main story, the process of acquisition of these characters is cancer. Rather than having awesome recruiting quests, finding these guys hidden throughout the world in awesome side quests... they are random drops from a consumable item. That's it. It's a gatcha system and the odds are not in your favor. It's ridiculous. They put what are essentially PARTY members behind these in-game loot boxes and it's absolutely awful. This alone would make me say that this game is unfinished garbage.

    Blades have skills called Field Skills (like super strength and jumping really high). You might think, cool, that could change how I interact with the world! Wrong. All they are, are arbitrary skill requirements that act as keys for nodes throughout the world. Don't have some arbitrary skill at level 5 available? Too bad. It's just a way to arbitrarily lock you out without any real gameplay implications. Leveling these skills can also be a nightmare, depending on the blade. They are basically like HM's from Pokemon, except they have even less gameplay impact and you have to level them up. It's such a pointless and boring system that summarizes my opinion of this game: it lacks any kind of engaging or interesting gameplay outside of combat. It all boils down to grinding out these various "RPG" systems that have no real gameplay impact beyond resource acquisition and menu navigation. Missed opportunity doesn't even cover it. Field Skills shouldn't even be in the game.

    This game has a myriad of stats and hundreds of trivial consumables that are just about worthless. You use those consumables through an asinine menu called the Pouch (which allows you to consume one consumable at a time for an hour). This system should be completely ignored, except for the fact that it's integral to character progression. Each character has favorite items, which are required to discover in order to progress certain abilities. The only way to figure this out is to GUESS their favorite item.

    Quests are intensely uninteresting with about as much effort as basic MMO quests. Exploring the world is pointless. Despite being beautiful, it's filled with nothing. Since every single thing in this game is based off of RNG drops and lootbox systems, the most interesting thing you're going to find is a treasure chest with random loot in it. There is no meaningful way to explore the world (no skills that make navigating the world interesting as you progress). It's clear that this was what they attempted to do with Field Skills, but that's a complete failure. It's another open world game with nothing in it. The map is horrible for a 2D map and completely ridiculous for a 3D map. It in no way shows elevation or anything else you would expect in a game in 2017. The compass is wildly inaccurate. It's also filled with insanely high level trash mobs that make no sense and are completely ridiculous. I saw several level 70 bunny rabbits just hanging around outside the first town. Not only does this make exploring tedious, it also completely wrecks verisimilitude. You're telling me, I just killed this crazy "powerful" boss, but there is a bunny that can one shot me right outside?

    Combat, while being over complicated, is very boring. Once you learn it, it's just the same combos/skill rotations every battle. No battle is different from any other battle. I never once, in 30 hours of gameplay, felt like I had to adjust tactically to the fight. It’s trivial, boring, and more about micro-managing your personal skills than actually engaging with an enemy or behaving tactically.

    STORY: Story is hackneyed, cliché, tropy anime garbage. It’s pandering and cringy. From the really embarrassing character designs that just scream horny 14 year olds, to the fact that every character is as shallow as the character trope they inhabit, this story is just an embarrassing joke. I’m constantly rolling my eyes and I actively hate every character because of how pandering it is. There is nothing good about it. They didn’t even ATTEMPT to lip sync the characters to the English actors, either. Frankly, it’s one of the worst RPG stories with some of the most bogus hackneyed characters I’ve ever seen.

    CONCLUSION: This is a generic JRPG, with pandering characters, overdesigned mechanics that lack any sort of tactical depth. It is filled with game design missteps and missed opportunities. It violates every concept of good game design and is overall a cancerous waste of time.    … Expand
  62. clonc
    Dec 17, 2017
    4
    Everything is worse than X1 and XCX in all regards. Story, characters, gameplay, music, world, quests - not even the menus are decent. Incredibly slow and tedius to things in, and you have to use them A LOT.

    The game started OK, but by the end of the game I just hated it and every aspect of it. I never want to play it again. What a massive dissapointment this was. It just feels like the    Everything is worse than X1 and XCX in all regards. Story, characters, gameplay, music, world, quests - not even the menus are decent. Incredibly slow and tedius to things in, and you have to use them A LOT.

    The game started OK, but by the end of the game I just hated it and every aspect of it. I never want to play it again. What a massive dissapointment this was. It just feels like the worst parts of anime combined with the worst parts of gaming.

    It also crashed multiple times, and has no auto-save, so have fun with that if you forget to save.    … Expand
  63. sunnybun
    Oct 7, 2018
    1
    tl;dr: An exaggerated, boring overpriced RPG with ridiculous storyline and is absolutely not worth the pricetag

    Ok let me explain where I'm coming from and why I gave this game such a low score. I'm a huge RPG fan and have played every major series from Baldur's Gate to Final Fantasy and Zelda series. I absolutely loved the new Zelda on Switch and enjoy most but not all JRPGs.    tl;dr: An exaggerated, boring overpriced RPG with ridiculous storyline and is absolutely not worth the pricetag

    Ok let me explain where I'm coming from and why I gave this game such a low score.
    I'm a huge RPG fan and have played every major series from Baldur's Gate to Final Fantasy and Zelda series.
    I absolutely loved the new Zelda on Switch and enjoy most but not all JRPGs. Storyline is very important to me, but graphics are not. I also believe that strong narrative and story progression as well as introduction of new game elements needs to be done right for the game to be successful and fun. It's in these last elements where XB2 fails miserably.

    Let's start with a story:
    From the beginning up until where I am in the game now (about 50 hours in) it feels like it was written by a hormonal Japanese teenager with absolutely no understanding of human relations. The characters are bland, boring and plain weird. Lost in Translation kind of weird. This goes beyond some of the weirdest writing I've experience in some of the Final Fantasy games and is just way too distracting.
    The characters don't help this either, they're way too overdramatic and extreme with some being absolutely unrealistic protagonists or antagonists. Nothing in the story really made sense so far and some of the "twists" are fundamentally dumb. Every little encounter ends with a Deus Ex Machina like solution that makes no sense whatsoever. "Oh so we are losing the battle and now suddenly one of us is going to uncover a hidden potential that nobody thought we have and basically defeat an overwhelming foe, that also didn't really appear that overwhelming from the get-go, oh and all of this in a 5 minute long cutscene"

    Music and sound - too extreme and much too distracting. Having your character announce his every move in every single battle (with battles lasting up to 5 minutes) is just plain stupid.
    Music is okay in some parts, but way too dramatic in parts where it shouldn't be. Very badly executed for the most part. I more or less play with sound completely off now.

    Game elements and overall gameplay: this is where the game fails the most I think. Up until about 40-50 hours in the game, you are still "learning" - the game throws mandatory tutorials at you with some of the mechanics such as chain attacks that could have been learned from the onset in 2 minutes. As you walk through various levels, you'll find a huge mix of mobs from very underleveled to extremely overleveled that will one shot kill you all the time. There's no reason for such level design and it helps nothing in the game - it's just very poorly designed overall. The battles are way too long and even when battling monsters 10-20 levels below you, you'll waste time with monsters that always aggro you.

    At this point, I'm only trying to finish the game because I paid the full price for it but I honestly deeply regret it and hope you don't make the same mistake. This game is absolutely not what many people make it out to be, I feel like we're just all stuck in the deep buyer's remorse and need to justify this pile of crap as something worthy.

    Ok to be fair, I thought I'd mention a few things that this game does well too:
    The world is large and varied, although there isn't much to do in it unfortunately other than walking and picking up occasional loot or battle monsters.
    The battle mechanics are somewhat original and the variety of character builds is good.
    The battles can be challenging and rewarding, but because they can also be super boring, it's usually more of the latter not so much of the former.
    There is a lot of variety in terms of weapons and classes/skills, but this of course assumes you like the battle system.
    There are a lot of monsters and various designs. Seeing such a variety of creatures is impressive. If only fighting them wasn't such a chore.

    Overall this game to me feels like it's an early beta of an RPG that's trying to figure out the monster placement and the storyline. This is not worthy to be released as "top RPG on Switch" as some have claimed it was.    … Expand
  64. awdrifter
    Nov 4, 2018
    0
    Xenoblade 2 is a massive disappointment! I loved the first Xenoblade, I was looking forward to playing this when it first released. After getting a Switch recently I can finally play this game. But it gets more and more frustrating the more I played. Keep in mind I did not finish this game, and I probably won't. I played up to chapter 6 and I pretty much had enough of the artificialXenoblade 2 is a massive disappointment! I loved the first Xenoblade, I was looking forward to playing this when it first released. After getting a Switch recently I can finally play this game. But it gets more and more frustrating the more I played. Keep in mind I did not finish this game, and I probably won't. I played up to chapter 6 and I pretty much had enough of the artificial limitations that was put in everywhere of the game. The random blade spawning is bs! The Affinity Chart is bs! Field Skills limitation is bs! The map and quest waypoint marker system sucks!
    The blade spawning and Affinity Chart feels like they are taken from free-to-play games, maybe that was what Monolith was planning to do, where you can buy premium coins to get guaranteed rare blade crystals and affinity boosting items. But for whatever reason (maybe seeing the backlash at EA) they didn't implement that. So we're left with a system that was made tedious for the purpose of encouraging purchase but have no way of purchasing the premium items. I would rather they had the ball to put that into the game.
    The field skill gates doesn't even make any sense, they gate the side quests, which should be giving you field skill points. I was doing a rare blade quest and it requires Botany lvl 7, who would have that by going through a normal playthrough?! On another side quest I need to talk to an NPC, it requires Girl's Talk lvl 3 WTF?! How is even talking gated behind the fking field skills.
    So what I'm left if is just the main story, which was alright up to chapter 6. But now I'm stuck because all the enemies in the area I'm in suddenly became level 80 after a certain cutscene, so I need to either grind 20+ levels or stop playing. I think the choice is pretty easy.
    Before I played this I saw many older posts also mentioned this game was disappointing, but I didn't think it's that bad. It's like all the new stuff they added to this game was made for monetization, but they didn't actually go through with it. I rather they just put in 30 unique blades in the entire game (no random blades) you grind money to get it, none of this lootbox stuff. No Affinity Chart at all, blade skills should be manually chosen by the player (using up experience points). No field skill requirements, that should be completely scrapped. I know this is probably not realistic as that would pretty much be remaking the entire game's progression system. So I'll probably never finish this game.    … Expand
  65. Xern
    Nov 9, 2019
    0
    Uninteresting characters, plot that exists only the first half hour and the last 10 hours, all in the middles is just anime trope and sketches that makes augh only to little kids and Japanese people. Poorly written since there are far too many deus ex machina, and only one character is given space and yet it feels the most forced character in the whole party
    Fun to explore, battle system    Uninteresting characters, plot that exists only the first half hour and the last 10 hours, all in the middles is just anime trope and sketches that makes augh only to little kids and Japanese people. Poorly written since there are far too many deus ex machina, and only one character is given space and yet it feels the most forced character in the whole party
    Fun to explore, battle system is highly subjective though having to stand still and autoattack is horrible, it basically has the gameplay as classic world of Warcraft for the 1st too many hours, to many phone game mechanics like having to wait real time with the game on to get some mission done, especially m I on that are mandatory for some Blade's quest line, and Blades are just a horrible gacha system that shouldn't have existed in the 1st place
    Oh, also those blades tends to be cringe and really point towards a kid audience. There are some references to Xenosaga, that are ruined by some evil nopon action sketch, and this also RetCon the 1st Xenoblade, erasing one of the way you could read the game, so this horrible plot is just so bad that destroyed a good one even if they have in common only a single point.
    Good game by per se, but it shouldn't have "Xeno" in the name while also being a work of Monolith soft.
    Some improvements that were made in xenoblade X aren't in this game.
    Good music from Mor Ardain onwards, bad voice acting and no, saying "just use the Japanese one" doesn't make it any better
    Honestly, Torna is the only part worth playing, it sucks that to play it you have to own the mistake that is the main game so it automatically become not worth it.
    Also the characters are so uninteresting that's almost impossible to empathize with them, even when you should. One of the protagonists is a pedophile, and there are pedophile jokes used at a funeral by another characters, that later scold someone for not paying respect to the dead. I don't understand how anyone would like this unless they are 612 yo circa and/or likes anime way too much, to the point when they don't even read or try to understand the plot, they just want to see the sketches that they have already seen in every slice of life anime ever    … Expand
  66. qwurzy
    Dec 2, 2017
    3
    This is so bad it's good. Character interactions and combat dialogue are a joke and that's pretty much what the game is all about. Pretty sad if you ask me.
  67. Caossaga
    Dec 1, 2017
    3
    Really easy game...
    Slow figthers...
    Bad story...
    Bad art....
    Bad graphics...
    Long load times....
    Bad Characters ...
    Bad music...
    Bad game...

    in another console would be one of many

    not recommended
  68. phuckphace
    Jan 17, 2018
    0
    Quite possibly the worst 6 hours of an RPG I have ever played.
    The English V.O is embarrassingly bad. It feels like each actor recorded their lines years apart from each other. The animation system makes every character suddenly jump into their walk animations. The on-boarding process just throws random gameplay elements at you without any rhyme or reason.
    The characters are your basic    Quite possibly the worst 6 hours of an RPG I have ever played.
    The English V.O is embarrassingly bad. It feels like each actor recorded their lines years apart from each other. The animation system makes every character suddenly jump into their walk animations. The on-boarding process just throws random gameplay elements at you without any rhyme or reason.
    The characters are your basic pervy anime tropes, and if you are into lingering cameras on anime breasts, well do I have the game for you. The Christian symbology is so in your face, I'm embarrassed for the writers. "Child of Adam? Wow. Hacky writing.
    To top it all off, they do not tell you how to save the game at any point while you are playing it. After twelve hours of playing this drek, my system updated and turned off, deleting all of my progress.
    Truly, a horrific experience start to finish.
    If you like a game with even a reasonable unique story, look elsewhere. Play Zelda for another near until something good comes out.    … Expand
  69. HaterOfHaters
    Feb 4, 2018
    1
    Juego sin terminar con un apartado gráfico PENOSO en modo portátil. Soy fiel de Nintendo pero en esta ocasión me he sentido totalmente decepcionado porque este no es su estilo. Debieron supervisarlo y evitar que saliera así al mercado, todo por las jodidas prisas y meterlo para la campaña navideña. Fatal, al mercado de segunda mano se va, con apenas 5 horas de juego

    PD: a quien crea que    Juego sin terminar con un apartado gráfico PENOSO en modo portátil. Soy fiel de Nintendo pero en esta ocasión me he sentido totalmente decepcionado porque este no es su estilo. Debieron supervisarlo y evitar que saliera así al mercado, todo por las jodidas prisas y meterlo para la campaña navideña. Fatal, al mercado de segunda mano se va, con apenas 5 horas de juego

    PD: a quien crea que exagero o que soy un hater o un loco de los gráficos, sólo decir que probé Xenoblade 2 y al momento tuve que poner Skyrim y Breath of the Wild para comparar resultados porque me dolían los ojos...os aconsejo a todos que lo hagáis y juzguéis vosotros. Mi conclusión es que un juego de la pasada gen como Skyrim no debería verse mejor ni ir más fluido nunca salvo que el juego de Switch tenga un pésimo trabajo o esté inacabado como es el caso de Xenoblade 2.

    Unfinished game with a PENOUS graphic section in portable mode. I'm faithful to Nintendo but this time I've been totally disappointed because this is not his style. They had to supervise him and prevent him from going to the market like that, all because of the **** haste and putting him in for the Christmas campaign. Fatal, the second-hand market goes, with just 5 hours of play

    PD: whoever I think I exaggerate or am a hater or a crazy graphics, just say that I tried Xenoblade 2 and at the time I had to put Skyrim and Breath of the Wild to compare results because my eyes hurt ... I advise you to all who do and judge you. My conclusion is that a game from the past gene like Skyrim should not look better or go more fluid ever, unless the Switch game has a bad job or is unfinished as is the case with Xenoblade 2.    … Expand
  70. tremault
    Jul 22, 2020
    1
    The art is horribly inconsistent. you have a cartoony looking hero amongst a world of realistic textures and low importance NPC's that are rendered in a semi realistic way. The quality of the graphics on their own is incredibly bad, most notably in the 'dream sequence' where the trees and grass are the level of a wii game. The voice acting is utterly awful. I look at the characters faceThe art is horribly inconsistent. you have a cartoony looking hero amongst a world of realistic textures and low importance NPC's that are rendered in a semi realistic way. The quality of the graphics on their own is incredibly bad, most notably in the 'dream sequence' where the trees and grass are the level of a wii game. The voice acting is utterly awful. I look at the characters face and they are emoting very strongly and I can just imagine what the japanese voice track would sound like, but that is not given as an option in the game. The story has interesting ideas in it, but the way it is presented is quite bad, with characters flying in to save the day at the last moment, having previously given no indication they could fly. the way it is presented is pure deus ex machina, before the first chapter starts. The environments are cluttered and busy right from the offset and came across quite overwhelming. there aren't even any artistic cues to help environment traversal. at one point there was a set of stairs that led to the objective but because of the angle and the colour of them, they looked just like one of the crates that littered the area. This is a small subset of numerous issues.

    The game is bad. so bad it is shocking.    … Expand
  71. Dovar
    Mar 2, 2022
    4
    Heavily flawed and incredibly frustrating at times.
    No actual Autosaves, one crash cost me 3 hours of progress.
    The Tutorials are utter **** better be ready to watch video guides on how to actually play the damn game. The enemies have way too much HP at times which makes the combat feel like a complete slog. The music ranges from generic music that grates on the ears after a few hours    Heavily flawed and incredibly frustrating at times.
    No actual Autosaves, one crash cost me 3 hours of progress.
    The Tutorials are utter **** better be ready to watch video guides on how to actually play the damn game.
    The enemies have way too much HP at times which makes the combat feel like a complete slog.
    The music ranges from generic music that grates on the ears after a few hours to some good tracks but mostly generic JRPG music.
    The graphics are blurry, it cant keep a constant resolution always changing every few seconds which gets annoying really fast, the game looks best on the small switch screen(not the oled model, there the blur is way more noticable).
    The "localization" is bad, not Fire Emblem Fates level of bad but still bad, they changed many texts, names and stuff from the original japanese, some people don't mind but i prefer an experience that is as close as possible to the way the devs/writers originally intended, playing with Japanese voices gets rid of the horrible british accents that plague the characters and voices that absolutely dont fit the characters(Rex especially) but the texts don't line up with what is actually being said a lot of times which is frustrating in itself.
    The game is grindy as **** some people like it but for me it's too much.

    Get the game for 30 or less if you are interested, it's not worth even a cent more than that    … Expand
  72. macunix
    May 14, 2018
    1
    a good story telling JRPG. a lot nice character designs, decent music.
    AWFUL handheld image quality. really awful resolution.
  73. zephir93
    May 22, 2018
    2
    cosa?! dov'é la mia recensione? l'avevo già scritta..
    poco male: XC 2 é uno dei peggiori jrpg mai creati, migliore di XCX ma non ci voleva molto.
    In xb2 abbiamo: -una storia piena di cliché che stenta a decollare -personaggi insopportabili -fanservice che esce dalle orecchie -CS noioso, basta guardare senza fare nulla per grindare, se vuoi attivi abilità per -finire prima gli    cosa?! dov'é la mia recensione? l'avevo già scritta..
    poco male: XC 2 é uno dei peggiori jrpg mai creati, migliore di XCX ma non ci voleva molto.
    In xb2 abbiamo:
    -una storia piena di cliché che stenta a decollare
    -personaggi insopportabili
    -fanservice che esce dalle orecchie
    -CS noioso, basta guardare senza fare nulla per grindare, se vuoi attivi abilità per -finire prima gli scontri
    -realizzazione tecnica vergognosa, soprattutto su portatile
    -posizionamento e aggro di nemici senza senso
    -tutorial, come da prassi monolith, inutili

    statene lontani    … Expand
  74. B-Bog
    Mar 10, 2023
    4
    Cutscenes and character designs are cringe weeb s**t, gameplay consists of approximately 5000 convoluted systems that fail to interlock in any meaningful way, writing and voice acting are absolutely horrendous, and the game berates you with dumb tutorials every five minutes for ten hours plus. I really liked Xenoblade DE, but this is borderline unplayable.
  75. Shilfein
    Oct 13, 2018
    2
    Xenoblade 2 is basically a one-player MMORPG.

    Semi-automatic battles with little to no strategy nor gameplay involved, HP sponge enemies, hundreds of quests based on mindless resource fetching, random drops and resources, gigantic empty environments, etc... Everything in this game is simply designed to waste the player's time with boring, braindead activities. Story is mildly    Xenoblade 2 is basically a one-player MMORPG.

    Semi-automatic battles with little to no strategy nor gameplay involved, HP sponge enemies, hundreds of quests based on mindless resource fetching, random drops and resources, gigantic empty environments, etc...

    Everything in this game is simply designed to waste the player's time with boring, braindead activities.

    Story is mildly interesting, but nothing is interesting enough to make me invest so much time in such boring activities to move it forward. Open-World RPGs have evolved but Monolith Soft seems to have lived in a cave the last decade.

    If you are into MMORPGs then buy it by all means, you will find more than 250 hours of repetitive grinding, farming and blindly search for resources in gigantic environments here.

    If you value your time though, stay clear from this one.    … Expand
  76. NellTull
    Nov 25, 2019
    4
    Upon first playing this game i thought it was great, but the more i play it the more flaws show. I now realise i just jike the lore and world of this game. The english dubbingbis awfull as every character gets a scottish accent. When tryng to play in japanese it is still difficult because every character is given a new name for sme reason. The combat sysem is automatic where you onlyUpon first playing this game i thought it was great, but the more i play it the more flaws show. I now realise i just jike the lore and world of this game. The english dubbingbis awfull as every character gets a scottish accent. When tryng to play in japanese it is still difficult because every character is given a new name for sme reason. The combat sysem is automatic where you only combo specials together. I walk away whenever a fight starts and let the game play itself. You need to switch characters often in the middle of a fight, and thats not an option. There in combat menu! You are actively punshed for not partcipating in mini games. The cut scenes are far longer than ive ever played even in other multi hundred hour rpgs averageing at least 20 minuets. If you think you will like this game because you are a jrpg fan or even a xenoblade fan, BEG you to reconsider. I wish i could finish the story right now, but i can't play for 30 minuets because the game is punishing me for doing too much main story content!… Expand
  77. IMR707
    Jan 7, 2020
    4
    The Good.
    The music is awesome.
    The story and world building is super cool. The characters are acceptable if you can handle anime tropes. Monster design is cool too. The Bad The gameplay though, urrgh too slow and sloppy for my taste. Too much timewasters in missions and and battle systems is super slow and not intuitive until later on, but even then, after everything is unlocked,    The Good.
    The music is awesome.
    The story and world building is super cool.
    The characters are acceptable if you can handle anime tropes. Monster design is cool too.

    The Bad
    The gameplay though, urrgh too slow and sloppy for my taste. Too much timewasters in missions and and battle systems is super slow and not intuitive until later on, but even then, after everything is unlocked, it still feels too slow. Maybe the battle system is just not for me, I like either relaxing old school like Dragon Quest or super real time adrenaline like YS series.

    Maps and navigation are terrible, If you want to see whole area's map, you have to press X and wait for awhile before it loads and it gets annoying. If you want to see the map while moving, you can only have a partial map loaded, and for the small map, it's too small that it's useless.

    I give up playing after halfway slog and just watch other people play on youtube for the sake of finishing the stories. One of my regrets on buying a hype game without further research first.

    Only play this if you got a lot of free time to get through the very slow battle system in my opinion even though is is real time.    … Expand
  78. Adriella01
    Feb 22, 2020
    3
    Short summary: short boy with tight ass cheeks travels with boobgoddess to garden Eden and catches some more sexgoddesses on his way.
    - character design: ridiculously bigger boobs than headsize, even though anime characters already have a bigger head than human standard. Literally ever female character carries 2 melons on herself. It looked physically ridiculous and was irritating to me.    Short summary: short boy with tight ass cheeks travels with boobgoddess to garden Eden and catches some more sexgoddesses on his way.
    - character design: ridiculously bigger boobs than headsize, even though anime characters already have a bigger head than human standard. Literally ever female character carries 2 melons on herself. It looked physically ridiculous and was irritating to me.
    0 For my taste Rex got a strange unappealing character design. I did not want to see his ass cheeks in this tight suit 70% of the time. He also looks like a child, which makes it more disturbing.
    0 Xenoblade is the new "pokemon" for erotic half naked anime girls (rated this 0, because it is personal taste and interest, I think).
    - feti**ization of a child robot "poppy" and (maybe?) Rex too. Her primary function is being cute in a sexy "cutie-bun-bun" costume to her master, which she says herself in a conversation. Her introduction was also in a sexualized manner as the "slutty maid".
    + long gameplay, around 10 chapters.
    + The story is interesting and has some eastereggs from the Xeno-Saga, like KOS-MOS or the Zohar, which is why I will probably play the game till the end of the story.
    - combat is the most frustrating part here for me. It is repetitive and relatively to the level difference slow. Fighting a single lvl 17 enemy with lvl 24? Nah this takes a while. Also the auto-combat reminds me of those afkleveling mobile games. This shouldn't be a thing to beginn with. The so called "complex" fighting system, aka blade combos and chain attacks, don't improve the boring auto-attacking. The main issue is the lack of dynamic in the combat, as it has a constant slow fighting speed like a watermill. I was sleeping with half of my brain at every fight.
    - through the story the main characters will repeat the same annoying battle voices again and again.
    - Sometimes there is terrible voice acting (AAAAAAIYAH), Rex sounds like a race car at his battle cry lmao. I couln't stand the english voice acting, it sounded forced and childish (which is fine for 6 year olds playing the game).
    - talking to most npcs, which do not give a quest or are not part of the story, is irrelevant and does not give anything positive to it, most of the time not even interesting lore. Why would the devs give this option to begin with? I also could'nt skip boring dialogues. Usually people are given the option to speedup dialogue speed, but not in this game (?)

    I loved the Xenosaga series and Xenoblade 1 was a masterpiece. Thought I might give this game a try because it got KOS-MOS in it, but after Xenoblade 1 this is definitely a 180° turn the wrong way.    … Expand
  79. AlexCampuzano
    Aug 30, 2021
    4
    The game can be summed up as a jumble of ideas that just don't connect well. With some of the worst and longest tutorials in video games, out-of-sync and misdirected voice acting, a predictable story for the most part, apart from gameplay that can be entertaining but is overshadowed by repetitiveness due to its lousy in-game explanation.
    One of the few aspects in which it stands out is in    The game can be summed up as a jumble of ideas that just don't connect well. With some of the worst and longest tutorials in video games, out-of-sync and misdirected voice acting, a predictable story for the most part, apart from gameplay that can be entertaining but is overshadowed by repetitiveness due to its lousy in-game explanation.
    One of the few aspects in which it stands out is in the soundtrack and the world design, which are very varied and interesting.
    Still, I don't think it's worth wasting so much time in this game just to entertain yourself a bit at the end, especially when the first installment fulfills all these sections in a better way.    … Expand
  80. nintendo_fan69
    Oct 12, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I didn't like this game for one reason; it's not Xenoblade Chronicles. it says it's a sequel to the first, but it isn't. It doesn't have any of the characters as the first, nor does it have the same location, story, or even main weapon! The battle system was hard to adapt to from the first game to the second, also. If this was a standalone game, it would've been great, but it's not. Overall, it was just disappointing, and if you want this game because you liked the first and want more, I beg of you, please don't. It will just disappoint.… Expand
  81. Allissei
    Jan 23, 2022
    3
    It's really bad
    The only good thing is the story... Although is really cliche... If you see a bit of anime, then you won't get any suprises... Really simple story.
    But the gameplay and how the world work is TERRIBLE, it needed some adjustments, and also a better wiki or guide. The tutorial is really bad and it's doesn't help or explains all the mechanics. It has a terrible way    It's really bad
    The only good thing is the story... Although is really cliche... If you see a bit of anime, then you won't get any suprises... Really simple story.

    But the gameplay and how the world work is TERRIBLE, it needed some adjustments, and also a better wiki or guide. The tutorial is really bad and it's doesn't help or explains all the mechanics.
    It has a terrible way of balancing difficulty... In normal is hard, and in easy isn't fun... And even in easy there're moments that became too hard.
    There are too many roadblocks and some secondary missions are impossible until you finish the main story... And not even finishing it, makes you viable in ending a mission.
    You also need a bit of luck... So if the games can't balance the gameplay properly, why you should play it?!... It also need a lot of time to barely finish the main story or get in the good parts...
    Play anything else, and you can even COMPLETE games before you finish the main story of this bad game.    … Expand
  82. Kaxiz
    Jul 31, 2022
    1
    Una buena historia que no vale la pena, un mundo abierto que no tiene sentido explorar y misiones secundarias que solo están hechas para perder el tiempo llendo un punto A a un punto B y hasta un punto C en dicho mundo abierto, lo que solo consume tu tiempo sin aportar nada de valor y por último un combate que se vuelve repetitivo y aburrido en unas cuantas horas.
  83. Debonair29
    Jun 12, 2022
    0
    es el mejor juego de el mundo sobretodo la colaboración con guts un furro y el del genshin impact , me encata su sistema de combate sobretodo no hacer nada
  84. Edele
    Feb 28, 2023
    0
    I'm very disappointed with XB2. While it has good music, that's about all it has going for it. Rex doesn't really grow throughout the plot, relying too heavily on his teammates for everything he encounters. When something important happens, he's either shouting or yelling. Additionally, one of the biggest flaws of this game is that the motivation of the opposing faction is very unclear.
  85. Xenobladekille
    Jun 1, 2023
    0
    Nothing to say. The worst game of the xenoblade saga all of the game in this saga are bad, but this uf.

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#25 Best Switch Game of 2017
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#3 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2017
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#3 Most Shared Switch Game of 2017

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 92 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 78 out of 92
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 92
  3. Negative: 1 out of 92
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 2, 2018
    73
    A fight with an ordinary enemy whose level is slightly higher can drag on for minutes, especially if you’re fighting it alone. The combat itself is also rife with problems: sometimes main character even fails to draw his weapon, or locks onto a far-off enemy, while another already is eviscerating him in close combat. [Issue#226, p.64]
  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Feb 26, 2018
    80
    Despite some rough patches, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a worthy addition to any Switch owner's library, especially if you have a predilection for RPGs and enjoyed either of the previous entries in the series. [Issue #32 – March/April 2018, p. 75]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 16, 2018
    80
    Extensive and massive JRPG. Although with a rather cliché story and characters, it comes with a beautiful world and a fighting system growing more and more complex with every hour played. [Issue#282]
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