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ishiki on 23 April 2012
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blaydcor said:
Teo said:
Xenoblade Chronicles, like The Last Story, is overhyped and overrated JRPG game JUST because it's for the Wii. After playing both, none of these two games are better than Star Ocean 4/Lost Odyssey on the 360 or FF13-2 on the PS3 in quality or story and overall, which I would compare to. Xenoblade does not represent anything new in the JRPG market.

Nope. I'll dispense with personal opinion and just say--by any objective critical criteria you could use to evaluate a JRPG, Xenoblade is considerably better than Lost Odyssey and miles beyond Star Ocean, FF XIII-2, etc. Only other RPGs that come close in the past 5 years would be World Ends With You and Tales of Vesperia.

Which of course you'll just counter with ''blah blah my opinion'' to which I say--you claim that Xenoblade "does not represent anything new in the JRPG market". This exposes such a gapingly ignorant awareness of JRPGs, the market, and Xenoblade that I can only say that your opinion is invalid. Everybody is entitled to an informed opinion. Otherwise it's just bullshit.

I imported from europe in the fall an dplayed it on dolphin and its gorgeous.

It depends what you look for in a JRPG. I mean, I think Persona 3, and 4 had a better story, characters, battlesystem, challenge which imo made them better games. 

However those games get repetetive, and xenoblades extremely open and beautiful and more open then pretty much any other JRPG in existence. It's extremely long, but that's where the improvements stop for me. Like FF13 it lacks minigames which would have enhanced the world, the battle system locks you into one party member something Persona 3 and FF13 was heavily cricized for,, the warning animations are annoying. The AI's pretty dumb land sometimes attacks the wrong thing, and it doesn't have quite the customization of games with similar battle systems like Dragon Age and FF12 with gambit systems which take the place of an AI.

Trails in the story's dialogue and characters I find much more charming. The story's alright, but it's worse than xenosaga 1 or 3, despite being a much better game. It's tied for my 4th favorite JRPG this gen, behind TWEWY, DQV and TiTS, It's a great game, but it's got issues that are quantifiable and bug certain people a different amount. 

edit: I'm not saying that my other favorite JRPG's don't have flaws they most definitely do, and I can definetly see how some people could think xenoblade is the best game ever etc.