Kotaku: Xenoblade Chronicles Import Preview -- 'in one word, it would be “boredom.'

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Scoobes said:
JRPGs and wRPGs are two different genres so I'm not sure it's fair to compare XCX and Witcher 3.

Witcher 3 certainly did raise the bar in terms of side quests and makes the vast majority of RPG side missions look like basic filler (which I guess they are). But I have different expectations when playing a jRPG to a wRPG.

Thanks for your contribution. However, both are open world RPGs and I feel that XCX in particular is very similar to WRPGs in terms of design (bar mechs, sci-fi and anime themes). I feel players and reviewers will take note of these similarities and thus make comparisons regardless of those labels.