After a very long journey (125 hours) I finally finished the game.
I can say that it truly is an amazing game; combat and music in particular are simply spectacular.
Story was a hit and miss for me. Similar to the first Xenoblade, there a lot of anime cliche moments which I personally don't like, and more than the fan service and love jokes is the "heroes are always the good guys who don't kill people and want to forgive EVERYONE", it happened in XC1 with Egil (god how much I hated that), and it happened here...to a lesser degree at least, trying to forgive the Torna guys was handled a lot better than Egil in XC1; Jin, Malos, Akhos, Mikhael and Patroka are much more likable, and I think have a better purpose and meaning than just simple vengeance.
Since I went in to the spiral of compering the two games, I will continue to say that in terms of 'plot twist' moments, XC1 is still better, I think it impacted me more, but XC2 definitely has better characters and character development, especially the bad guys.
The series still has somewhat lackluster side quests, I didn't play XCX, but XC1 had monotonous sidequests with very few good stories in them, the only thing that keep the first game sidequests passable was the amazing combat.
XC2 improves in a few aspects, it has a little more variety (merc missions for example), but it still is the same 'talk to x guy', 'fight x monster', 'gather x number of x item', type of quests; and in the same vein of the previous game, the main thing that keeps the sidequests interesting is the amazing combat system; gathering is much much better at least, thanks to collection points. And now there are better stories, thanks to blade quests and having a little more emphasis on quality over quantity.
Those are the main points I wanted to share really; I want to do same post game stuff and finish some Blade quest I left unfinished, but I have to take a break after 125 hours lol.
Also, big spoiler but:
Pyra/Mythra should have stayed dead at the end of the game...and yes I have no heart.
Last edited by osed125 - on 26 January 2018Nintendo and PC gamer
