Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Reviews - (83) Metacritic (83) Opencritic

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b00moscone on 24 November 2017

I'm gonna be a little pessimistic and go for 85. Personally, i reckon i'll enjoy it as much as i did XC, but it'll be reviewed more harshly for things like the art-style and voice acting. Furthermore there may be additional flaws i don't know of.

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Jumpin on 24 November 2017

GuyDuke said:

For information purpose only, here is the Famitsu score:

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch) – 9/9/8/9 [35/40]

Source: https://gematsu.com/2017/11/famitsu-review-scores-issue-1512

I'm very curious as to Famitsu's comments of the game. I want to know why one of the reviewers gave it an 8 out of 10, and why none felt it was a 10/10.

I do know that Famitsu doesn't pay as close attention to smaller RPGs than Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. I am willing to bet they didn't play much Xenoblade.

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Nautilus on 24 November 2017

RolStoppable said:

Nautilus said:

I think he is talking out of his ass.Given that every single preview is talking only positive things about the game, and that apparently he is just some random user, he must simply either hate the game or Nintendo.Plus, all those things he listed are a plus for me actually, so I really cant see that as negative.

Previews tend to be overly positive though, so they don't have much value when it comes to games that are legitimately good.

That being said, I haven't seen anything in XC2 that warrants concerns. Metascore should be around 88-93, so closer to XC than XCX.

I would agree if the previews covered a very small section of the game.But thats not the case with many previews for this game.

My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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Metallox on 24 November 2017

Jumpin said:

GuyDuke said:

For information purpose only, here is the Famitsu score:

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch) – 9/9/8/9 [35/40]

Source: https://gematsu.com/2017/11/famitsu-review-scores-issue-1512

I'm very curious as to Famitsu's comments of the game. I want to know why one of the reviewers gave it an 8 out of 10, and why none felt it was a 10/10.

- There are a lot of things to memorize for combat and it is a bit too complicated.

- Long cutscenes

- Similarly to X, they found problematic how hard is getting away from enemies.

- Grinding.

- A single battle can take too long.

I'm expecting something between 80 and 84, though it doesn't really matter since I'm confident I'll like it a lot, possibly more than X.

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JamesGarret on 24 November 2017

This will be my first Xenoblade, hopefully it´ll be the great experience FFXV failed to provide me.

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Volterra_90 on 24 November 2017

I honestly don't value a lot western reviewers scores for JRPGs. I mean, FFXV has almost the same score as XCX, which is laughable, since FFXV is pretty bad. But, well, if I have to guess, I'd say that XC2 would be in the 85-90 range.

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ARamdomGamer on 24 November 2017

Cerebralbore101 said:
Very minor SPOILER ALERT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOHANf9Og7w

And you guys doubt this game's greatness?

Yea, actually scenes like that make me doubt the game more than anything else.

I'll say 86-87, is going to score higher than X but lower than the original.

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sc94597 on 24 November 2017

I think it will have an 88 score. Higher than XBC:X but lower than XBC.

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OTBWY on 24 November 2017

GuyDuke said:

Nautilus said:
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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=232961

I'm afraid of this:

Some of the things I'm hearing about Xenoblade 2 from reviewer friends are... not great. This game undoes a lot of the things Monolith Soft learnt with Xenoblade and Xenoblade X. Very long cutscenes, lots of talky-talky, constantly being nudged along a path, bad voice-acting etc.
— Ishaan Sahdev (@ishaansahdev) November 11, 2017

But previews seem to state otherwise.

I saw this lol:

Aren't you that guy from Resetera that is always trashing Xenoblade 2 without giving a good discussion?

This is how bad your logic is.

Long cutscenes = That is any Xeno game made being a story driven.

Talky-Walky? The hell are you talking about? You want them to be quiet?
— xllunax (@xlluna91x) November 12, 2017

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GuyDuke on 24 November 2017

OTBWY said:

GuyDuke said:

I'm afraid of this:

Some of the things I'm hearing about Xenoblade 2 from reviewer friends are... not great. This game undoes a lot of the things Monolith Soft learnt with Xenoblade and Xenoblade X. Very long cutscenes, lots of talky-talky, constantly being nudged along a path, bad voice-acting etc.
— Ishaan Sahdev (@ishaansahdev) November 11, 2017

But previews seem to state otherwise.

I saw this lol:

Aren't you that guy from Resetera that is always trashing Xenoblade 2 without giving a good discussion?

This is how bad your logic is.

Long cutscenes = That is any Xeno game made being a story driven.

Talky-Walky? The hell are you talking about? You want them to be quiet?
— xllunax (@xlluna91x) November 12, 2017

Well LOL

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