Hynad said:
sc94597 said:
I am well aquainted with the Final Fantasy series, Megami Tensei series, Dragon Quest series, Pokemon series, Tales of series, and plenty of individual JRPG releases (Chrono, Terranigma, Secret of Mana, Rogue Galaxy, The World Ends With You, Lost Odyssey, etc, etc.) I also played Xenogears and Xenosaga I-III before playing Xenoblade. The closest JRPG to Xenoblade is FFXII, but the differences are still way too vast, and while FFXII's reception was poor Xenoblade's was a success. Xenoblade X seems to incorporate even more innovations to the genre. XBC also so happens to be the best acclaimed JRPG in the seventh generation, a generation which represented the decline of the JRPG. What am I missing?
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Yeah, you have experienced the entire universe. *rolleyes*
Xenoblade did a lot of things right. And some not so right. The blend of all the aspects made for a great JRPG. How did it reinvent anything though...
It took a lot of cues and aspects from other games in the genre, and blended them together. FF XII, Tales, DQ... But it certainly didn't reinvent a genre at all.
Finally, as far as I'm concerned, Lost Odyssey is a much better JRPG. Heck, The Last Story "reinvented" the genre a whole lot more than Xenoblade.
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