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

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SubiyaCryolite said:

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.

Both games having an open world doesn't make it a good point for comparision. The battle system in both games is extremely different, the setting too, even the music can't be compared.

You could argue that the huge amount of sidequests and the open world are valid points to compare but it's not enough to compare both games. Think about them as two separate games from two different leagues. You can't compare a wine and a beer.