Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Reviews - (83) Metacritic (83) Opencritic

[Cerebralbore101]

Peh said:

Cerebralbore101 said:
I just finished reading Destructoid's review. They had small nitpicks here and there about the progression system. I guess you have to be rich at certain points in the game to progress. Oh, and there was a complaint about how the game isn't 100% open world like BotW. It still got a solid 8/10 from them though, because Chris Carter is a great reviewer (he does 90% of their reviews).

Metro Game Central even managed to give it a 7/10, and they hate JRPGs with a passion over there.

Also, the game is sitting at 86 on Opencritic now.

How can you complain that it isn't as open as botw? I don't know what he is expecting from a story driven game.

Also, the Monolith said that it won't be as big and open like XCX.

I really don't know. I feel like a lot of reviewers fault JRPGs just for being JRPGs sometimes. Chris said it was a minor fault in the game though, so it's not as if it ruined his experience. XCX was big and open, but if you just wandered into the jungle or desert area without spending time in the first area you'd get crushed and die. So XCX wasn't really open in that sense.