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I've played all the Xenoblade games so far and enjoyed each of them despite their flaws. I did get 3 and am a couple hours in. The pacing in this one is absolutely atrocious to the point where I feel like I've sat through 2 movies already, and the game keeps putting up invisible walls to keep me on rails, but I am just starting so hopefully that problem does not continue. Other than that it seems like a marked improvement from XC2, and I think the characters so far have solid foundations to make the story good. Gameplay seems fine, too, and they've added more layers to enemy mechanics and combos, which is inarguably good (I still miss being able to change enemies by targeting limbs like in XCX, but alas). We'll see.

Edit: Btw, by all accounts overleveling in XC3 is very ill-advised. It causes other things to become much more grindy until you reach NG+ and can de-level the characters, so if you do get the game, try to avoid overleveling. :(

Entity13 posted...

Whereas so much of the first game was, "Are there machines? If yes, waste time on the one ability so everyone else can do basically anything

Literally over half the party has all or most of their important attacks pierce all that anyway (Shulk, Melia, Riki, Seven).

your face gets pounded by the mobs because neither tank can take aggro.

I didn't even use the tanks most of the time in XC1, tbh.
NGL, XC1 has problems but your complaints are pretty weak. If you don't want to use the mechon weapons or Enchant, you don't have to; just use the other options given to you.

shipwreckers posted...

I know some people hated it, but I REALLY wish they'd do a remaster ("definitive edition") of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Somehow that "filler" was bearable to me (at least more than the BLATANT time-gating filler in Torna). XCX's biggest crime was that it released on a doomed console. (The western censorship didn't help XCX either.) But, I think it would look and play phenomenally on a Switch!

That absolutely was not the weakest part of XCX. X is my favorite of the -blade games that I've finished, but its story is absolute trash because it's not complete. And I don't mean in a "we had to really rush the late-game story content so it's poorly paced." I mean that it's actually fucking incomplete. It literally ends on "There's something about this planet." Cool, you gonna let us find out what that is? No? Not even in optional post-game content? Great. :-/

Game needs a ton of QoL features (especially audio sliders, a faster way to change party members, and maybe making the text bigger because I had a hell of a time reading large chunks of the menu settings) but that's basically a given with any proper remake, one would hope.