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

[Nautilus]

DonFerrari said:

Nautilus said:

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

Wait wait.The reviewers that said the story was bad didnt say it wasnt understandable, they just thought it was simple.And it dosnt work that way.A game is not only made of the "obligatory" missions.If the side missions dont have content it wont make sense for having them in the first place.And if you could just rush through the story without doing anything extra or exploring the world, the game would just be easy, and then reviewers would complain about it.If you play The Witcher 3 in the normal difficulty most likely you wont be able to just rush the story, you would need to "grind" a bit, doing side quests, yet noone complained about it.The problem is if this "grinding" is boring or not.Thats the issue that reviewers had with the game.I still need to play the game to judge for myself, but i hardly see myself getting bored with the multitude of content that there is in the game.But thats my opinion