| KLXVER said: Really liking the game so far. Good gameplay. Good story. Good characters and voice acting. Good music. Just a fun game to play. My only negative would be that its a bit complicated. Its a bit too deep imo. Theres just so much to learn and theres a tutorial every 2 minutes it feels like. I'm only about 5 hours in though. |
I don't think there's too much to learn, but the rampant tutorials make it feel that way. It's WAY too handholdy. I can also see the way they are written may make simple things seem much more complex than they actually are; the whole chain attack one could just circle the party gauge and say "when this fills up, press + to execute a chain attack." then just allow the player to watch what happens. I think having it off to the side in an instruction manual type format would be much superior; especially if it had image visuals. I don't like tutorials, and I think this game relies too heavily on them, and when they introduce stuff, it feels very disconnected from what the player needs. It's almost arbitrarily introduced. To me, this is a minor gripe, something I wish was done differently, it doesn't particularly take away from the main experience though; but I can see how some players, particularly newer players to the franchise, or RPGs in general, may take issue.
On the voice acting, I love it! Easily the best that the series has ever had.
Speaking of which, I hope the Xenosaga games eventually have a proper Western release. I don't necessarily think they need new voice acting, it was decent, but it would be very nice if they got it.
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