Xenoblade 2 thoughts (no spoilers)

[curl-6]

Nuvendil said:

curl-6 said:

I swear, Field Skill gating story progress in this game is the worst design choice I have seen in any game in literally years. Worse than Starfox Zero's controls even. It is so utterly pointless and adds NOTHING to the experience but annoyance and wasting the player's time.

It is annoying but honestly very easily gotten past.  If you have a bunch.  Literally the only instance that took me any time to get past was Chapter 8.  Every other one was pretty simple stuff.  All the blades equipped to all party memebers count towards the totals needed afterall.

But yeah, I feel the field skills are a cool idea taken too far.  When they let you reach secret placed or get extra loot, they're cool.  But not when getting in the way of story.

I cannot for the life of me get Ancient Wisdom Level 3. The game has wasted the last two hours of my life with making me do stupid arbitrary tasks to unlock his other affinity points, like there was one for "use his favourite pouch item", I look it up and Google tells me its a tasty sausage, so I backtrack to bloody Gormott to buy one, only for nothing to happen when I use it. All I want to do is continue the goddamn story and I've spent more of the last 3 hours doing menial busywork than actual gameplay.