Official Xenoblade thread- Opinions, thoughts and questions inside! Can it hit 1mil in sales next year? Sequel coming for Wii U???

[Michael-5]

16 hours in and loving it. However now that I'm so far in, there are a few flaws IMO. Minor spoilers (names) are covered.

1. When you fight the Telethia in the Marsh, you need Shulk and that new girl in your party, however you can't change your party during battle (only immediately before) and although the game heavily hints at you needing Shulk, they don't tell you that you need the girl as well (maybe you don't need her, but with just Shulk, ALL my attacks were missing, and my Monardo meter wasn't filling). So the issue is, if you die you don't re spawn anywhere near the boss, the game doesn't force you to use the characters you need, and the game doesn't tell you that you need to use the girl until the cut scene immediately after you select who fights. as a result, you need to fail on purpose if you have the wrong party, and run really really far to get back there again. With some over-leveled monsters directly on your path, you might die with a single attack by accidental encounters on your way there as well (like I did) which adds to the frustration.

2. Although there is almost a tutorial for almost everything in the game, and a tab to craft gems outside of colony 9 (which I can't use for some reason, even in other cities or camps), you have to back travel to Colony 9 to craft gems. This is kind of annoying. So are finding out which heart to heart moments you can activate (menu only tells you the region), and the fact that the game never tells you that members have to be in your party to boost affinity.

2 isn't so much a flaw, just an annoying little thing, in an otherwise nearly flawless game. 1 I consider a flaw. As it is right now, I'd give the game a 9.6/10, it's addictive, long, polished, interesting, unique (world is on a giant monster? common), big (probably a bigger over-world then Oblivion, and Fallout 3, maybe even Skyrim, but I dunno how big that or XenoBlade is exactly), and overall really fun. Probably the best JRPG on consoles this gen, and maybe even best RPG this gen overall.

Other then fixing those minor flaws, and maybe allowing you to switch characters withing your party during battle (like the Tales of franchise), or commanding them to heal/use a specific attack. This game is perfect. It's a gem, and honestly with how cheap the Wii is now, this game is so good that non Wii owners should buy a Wii for this game, or a backward compatible Wii U with this being the first game they get.