My FOURTH attempt at finishing Xenoblade Chronicles... here I go!

[bigtakilla]

Bristow9091 said:

bigtakilla said:

You should if for nothing else because you can beat the game in 40 hrs if you wind up hating it. But if the game does resonate, it offers SO much more than even the original. Also, if you can't get into a game that starts you out on the last stand at sword valley (original), or waking up marooned on an alien planet and asking you to fight your way to he only civilization on the planet while you cross paths with foes that can 1 hit kill you, I'm not sure you're going to be pulled in with Xenoblade 2's going around a guild vessel opening, talking to a ton of folks about things you'll likely rapidly tap buttons to skip.

It's moreso the pacing I don't like, not the story itself... the prologue started off strong, I enjoyed that each time, cutscenes were well done and stuff... then it slows down for a couple of hours until the attack on Colony 9 where you get the Monado and then just sort of plods along at a slow pace from thereon up until where I am right now... it IS starting to pick up a little again now, but the last time I played, between the prologue and getting the Monado I spent like 3-4 hours doing sidequests which really burned me out rather quickly as opposed to other games, and I'm already past that in less time thanks to skipping all sidequests... might go back to them eventually, but with the game being so long as it is, I don't want to get distracted by them.

I could be wrong but 4-6 hours I had assumed the opening probably had a pretty significant impact of overall impressions of pacing. There's a lot of talking at the beginning of 2.