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I was pretty much heartbroken playing XBC2 during chapter 2 - how could they screw up Xenoblade so badly! So I get it when people give up on the game, don't give it a chance, or end up not really liking it even when they play the whole thing.
chapter 1 - fine
2 - awful
3 - so good
4 - mixed bag of great and not so good stuff
after that I think the game keeps getting better, with a few snags

If you want a good Xenoblade experience, XBC2 does sorta make you suffer through some stuff, but it's there. And like most any RPG, if the systems (skills, levels, items, etc) don't click for you, you will just not care for it. I liked 90% of the blade management, but sure, if I unlocked a skill and then found out I had to backtrack to kill 5 monsters that I had just got done killing dozens of, "ugh". There's another game design decision using blades that is pretty bad.

Sometimes I think XBC2 is a 7/10 game and I'm being generous and an apologist, sometimes I think it's a 9.5/10 game.

also XBC1 music is my favorite of the two, but, they are both A+