New Xenoblade 2 gameplay

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

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.

It was less a matter of scale and more that the grassy Titan and other areas from the trailers look kinda bland and boring, lacking the inspired design of the first two games.

For me, the grassy Titan reminded me immediately of the leg regions of Bionis.  But like I said earlier, longer shots of the landscales briefly shown in the E3 trailers would habe been better.