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Nuvendil on 29 August 2017
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curl-6 said:
Nuvendil said:

I do have to disagree with you pretty staunchly on the first trailer.  Not because of my feelings, but because it actually had the furthest reach of any trailer the franchise has had, currently with over 2 million views.   Regardless of what we think individually, the first trailer had a good impact.  The second trailer was weaker, I'll give you that.

But this whole "dime-a-dozen JRPG" narratuve has had me scratching my head for ages.  I've looked at trailers for a ton of JRPGs and if the first trailer was what the average one looked like, I would be more into the genre :P

The first trailer I think was inflated due to being part of the big Switch reveal which was probably the highest profile Nintendo event ever in terms of online exposure.

XB2's trailers so far look to me like they could've been from pretty much any run-of-the-mill JRPG from the past 5 years or so. Aside from the awesome music, nothing really makes it stand out.

It stayed a relevant trailer and accumulated views for a long while. And the presentation thing didn't strike me as inflating it as much as you seem to think since other trailers didn't get these numbers, like Octopath Traveler which is still under 300k views.  And the Xenoblade 2 trailer has a similar like to view ratio to the Splatoon 2 trailer and a strong like to dislike ratio.  The trailer was positively received and did well as a reveal trailer.

And I suppose I'm not as demanding when it comes to trailers.  And less extreme when it comes to what I categorize as generic.  To me, the first trailer certainly had plenty of Xenoblade vibes.  Plenty of visual elements, artistic design choices, etc struck me as similar.  And the enormous looming living stone formation was always something that caught my eye.  I never once felt the sense of scale lacking.  But everyone is looking for different things.

Imo, what hurt the second trailer the most was the unpolisjed vocal work.  I appreciate the effort to have english VA ready ASAP, but they should have made the trailer Japanese and released an English version later when the vocals were more up to scratch.  Not saying the trailer was perfect or anything, but in my mind it certainly showed the project had big ambitions.