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. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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)
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
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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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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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