So Xenoblade X has an 84 on metacritix because there is too much to do and the world is too big?

[DonFerrari]

Nautilus said:

ghettoglamour said:
If watched the Gamespot's review on youtube yesterday. It sounded like a 6, maybe 7 out of 10 during the review, then it still gets an 8. I was pretty surprised.

According to him many important fighting mechanics, such as healing, aren't properly explained.
The story overall is weak.
You are forced to grind to progress the story.
The side quests are pure filler.
Characters are uninteresting (and poorly modeled and voiced, at least the first woman you meet)

This doesn't sound like a great game at all.

But well, I guess the review was bad overall. He kept saying that despite it short comings, your patience will be greatly rewarded. He failed to explain how it rewards you though.

Not that gamespot didnt have some fair points, but it wasnt a good review.The side quests arent pointless.Sure, like all RPG, there are many quests that are there jiust to help you explore the world and lvl up, but many side quests have story elements on them, enhancing the lore and backstory of carachters, or exploring themes like religion and racism.I have seen alot of reviews, but the ones that complain that you need to grind are the same ones that complain that the game is too dificult to understand.In other ones, are the ones that either dont like the genre or that didnt dedicate long enough to try and understand the game(not all of them of course, just many that i saw).And again, the carachters flesh out during the afinnity missions, the side missions, and dont flesh out that much during story missions.You really need to get involved in the game to experience it full.I dont know, there seem to be many reviewers that apparently just rushed through the story to make the reviews

If you can't understand the story, level up enough through the story itself shouldn't the relevant side missions become part of the story instead of the player having to discover what is important and what is filler in the sidequests