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It's super flawed but personally I still had a blast. Faggots here hate it for some reason, just ignore the shitposting and give it a try.

>It's super flawed
>faggots here hate it for SOME reason

You have to be into jrpgs to enjoy it. Imo it's worse than 1 and X, but still a decent game. Played it for 200 hours. Get the dlc if you can and play torna after the main game.

>Have you played Xenoblade Chronicles 1?
>If yes then 2 is not worth playing because it's a lesser game in every single aspect
XC2 straight up makes the first game better retroactively.

Yes, the game is really good. But if you want something short, aka 30-40 hours long game, then this is not the game for you. It will take you 100+ hours to finish it, no joke. It has a very slow start, but once the story starts...
BTW, Torna is a prequel to XB2, but you don't have to play it before the main game. Let's just say... main game will spoil you some stuff from Torna and vice versa.

I went from 2 to 1 to X so yes. I'm going to try gears soon even.

Same but with Malos

I can't seem to really get into it. It has a LOT of mechanics but all of them are dumb and pointless.
A lot of the combat mechanics are reminiscent of what you'd find in an MMORPG but then the game doesn't let you control 2/3rds of your party so you wind up not giving a shit about the mechanics that are supposed to make the combat.
The lack of control doesn't stop there. You have a sort of skill "tree" but it's not a tree, really you're just getting enough not!experience to level up the next skill. There's no thought required.
Which feels kind of insulting. That sums up most of this game's mechanics. With the exception of the in-battle QTEs, nothing about the game requires any thought. I'm just going through the motions. I'm not building a party or a character and then making them battle, I'm following the programming that devs wanted me to. It was fun for 20 hours but now it's not.
I'm done with this game and can't recommend it unless you love anime tropes.

I hadn't looked at it that way but you're actually right

>takes no risks
Wat. It changed basically fucking everything compared to the previous games. The entire combat system, all of the RPG mechanics, the way equipment works, the entire setting of the game is different, the story has nearly nothing to do with the previous games, and so on and so forth.

Pretty much shit unless you play on easy or is overleveled, 90% of fights are just stat checks, if you don't regenerate life faster than you lose it you'll eventually die to a random crit or stun.
Optionnal quests are boring fetch quests that drag on too long and will probably kill you because a random lv80 flying boss will aggro you and kill you before the end of his animation.
The story is also straight up trash even for JRPG standards
other than that, locations are pretty good looking

A change in setting and combat does not equal taking a risk.
I'd say some of the changes are straight up awful, going from being able to see every piece of equipment to having your character remain stagnant visually through the entire experience just so you can have some contrived "love conquers all" bullshit near the endgame

>A change in setting and combat does not equal taking a risk
Then what is taking risk to you exactly?

Yes but the Soundtrack sounds like a cheap knockoff of the first game's OST (I know they were written by the same people) which is honestly baffling

>just so you can have some contrived "love conquers all" bullshit near the endgame
You what? Have you even reached the end?

Incredibly big changes in direction at the risk of alienating your fanbase
For instance, if Xenoblade turned into an action-game instead of a jRPG or if they made the sequel have you fight only in Skells and nothing else
Not just minor adjustments and small new systems that may or may not be beneficial to your play experience

I distinctly remember the scene when you go to save Homura after she got mindbroken by Malus and when the proverbial rope is about to snap, MCs love and friendship toward Homura lets her overcome her self-hatred and doubt and they combine into the green goblin

Got to chapter 4
No, it's primary method of maintaining player investment is gacha and jrpg menu managing, which given a lack of microtransactions I'm fully open to if it were in service of good gameplay, but it's not and game quickly begin to feel like a waste of time.

>Is XB2 Worth Playing?
Yeah. It's a good 'JRPG'; but depending on your tastes and preferences, you may find it a step down (or sideways) from the previous entries.
>Combat
Same as XB1 more or less; a bit different in the party arrangement/blade attachment, as acquiring characters is essentially a gacha (random roll). You get cores, you open them, they contain characters. Named characters are the rarer variants. The core mechanics are largely like xb1, sans some mid-lategame type comboing (orbs) and other things. It does the job, but it's not overly anything to write home about.
>Story, narrative structure, etc
Decent. It tells a very typical jrpg story of a young hero on his path doing his thing, learning/growing/changing, bla bla. It's a jrpg with an anime-esque plot, don't go into it expecting Catcher in the Rye or Fisherman and the Sea, and you'll be fine. It does a good job telling what it intends to tell, and is pretty full of charm and wit (not to the level of a Tales game, but close). It's a solidly told story about a fantasy world and the characters and backdrop it establishes. It doesn't really fall short anywhere, but the pacing hits some knots periodically, which will leave you feeling a little miffed if you're a story-focused player. By the time its' all over, it covers what needs to be covered and does so sufficiently.
>Music, sound design, VA
It has a great OST; there are some misses, but way more good tracks. You'll find quite a few catchy tunes in XB2 and wonderfully atmospheric tracks, and more oft than not you'll be engaged by the music rather than not notice it. There are some bad eggs but they're rare. Sound design is competent but nothing to write home about. VA is a dangerous subject because it's so divisive to the audience, but I found the JP voices better than the English VA. The English VA is all heavily accented variants of UK/EU english, incl. welsh and others; similar to XB1, if you played it.

Yes. If you've ever played any Xeno game the games are all extremely flawed but in a endearing sort of way. The actual plot is great and the setting is a joy to explore.

If you've never played a Xeno game, try it some people love it some people hate it.

If you like grand adventure jRPG, this game is made for you. It's a love letter to the golden era of jRPGs, when adventure, endearing characters and exploration, were still a thing. Also, earkino soundtrack. The DLC is also extremely worth it.

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Yes
Its fucking fun

Big tities girls and kino moments , no brainer user

It's the best rpg of this generation. I played xenoblade 2 and the torna dlc for something like 100 hours and there is still loads to do

user it's biggest risk was taking Xenoblade's staple combat system and making it watered down yet somehow worse.
- Someone that has played every Xenoblade including 2

I liked the game.

Yes, It's basically a PS1 game in scale and personality but with the possibilities of new technology.
A true JRPG brought to modern standards.
Even if one might dislike it in the end it's definitely WORTH playing.

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I tried it a couple months ago. Haven't played the first game but I was thoroughly unimpressed. It looks like absolute fucking garbage despite the art direction being top-tier because they applied some post-processing sharpening filter over everything that produces a ton of ringing and banding and after playing on PC for so long I can't fucking stand to look at it. Beyond that the fighting feels extremely convoluted and unintuitive, and NPCs are just there as background props with 0 interaction. It has a Japanese audio patch to get rid of the annoying "OI M8" voice acting, but they don't sub any of the in-battle banter so you're forced to play with the dub anyway if you don't want to miss that side of character development. Honestly, just wait for yuzu to get better so you can emulate it with fan-patches that remove all the shitty post-processing effects and make it run at a modern resolution, and hopefully someone will come along and add subs for the banter as well. It's just not worth it in its current state.

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Xenogears fucking sucks

I never played any of the Xeno games before, played 20 hours of 2 and hated most of it, the story is just a really bad shonen anime, the dub is really fucking bad, the combat is boring and I never felt like I was in control and getting blades via gacha was bullshit. My normie friends love it though.

Is it at least difficult or is it like 99% of JRPGs where it's easy after you level up and get basic skills

Having waifus is a risk by your definition, it sure alienated a lot of people.
If changing genres is your definition of taking risks, you are a fucking retard.

It's not difficult. Some of the post-game stuff requires some grind, but eventually you can actually solo anything in the entire game/post-game with a single blade, Poppi.
She's also a guaranteed story-given blade.
She can solo the entire game. Literally.

It's nice that nintendo left it uncensored (for the most part) and good on them for recognizing that the dub is literally unplayable but I wish the Switch wasn't such shit hardware. 480p in Handheld Mode, drops below 720p in docked mode and the framerate is still shit.

Good game tho. The gacha system is shit and I don't think they should get credit for semi fixing it with the season pass Combat and Story is really nice.

Get in line, pal.

Play torna instead

Torna makes little sense without the main game, don't listen to this brainlet.

Yes, of course. It's the most refreshing JRPG I've played recently. It doesn't take itself too seriously (as most flagship JRPGs), but doesn't lightly either (as most fastfood weeb JRPGs)

I enjoyed it. they've got a fun gacha esque system

Yes. Best switch exclusive if youre a weeb

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