It’s rated about the same as XCX currently, but not as divisive. XCX has a bunch of really low reviews that effectively were “Wahwahwah, it’s different from XC, I dun licke it, wahwahwah!” But the 84% score is acceptable because numerous reviews scored it in the mid 90s; and without the crybaby reviews, XCX is a low 90s game. XC2 doesn’t have those high reviews, almost all are a few percentages away from its average, they’re in the 70s and 80s. It’s weird because it’s essentially a much more refined version of the first game along with a much more dynamic story, and way better dialogue; and the first one had lots of high reviews.
It’s kind of weird that the majority of reviewers score Xenoblade 2 down in the realm of RPGs like Shadows of Valentina and I am Setsuna. Because, from what I have played, it is substantially better than those.
To be fair, the first game had a lot of that Project Rainfall support among the gaming press community, which heavily skewed bias toward them, because they were committed to supporting the game before its launch in the US. So if the game had a normal launch, it may have not scored as highly.
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