Monolith Soft Boss Talks About Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Development Struggles

[Metallox]

Super_Boom said:

Metallox said:

Pretty much everything. Now, I'm not trying to troll or being hyperbolic, but it's what I've been feeling for the last two months. For every good thing, the game fucks it up in two or three aspects more, whether you call it narrative, art style, menus, gameplay systems (mainly the so special field checks), navigation, character movement, combat... That's not to say I don't like it, because I love it, but it's more terrible than good. 

I'd say the game has very high highs and low lows, but unlike you, I think the former far makes up for the latter.

Narrative and artstyle were fantastic, though admittedly subjective. Menus and combat ware marked improvements over the previous games, I honestly can't remember the last time I felt so absorbed in a game's combat system. Character movement and navigation are fair points, though aren't really significant issues to me. The special field skill things can burn in hell though. Honestly just letting the field skills trigger based on your whole Blade list rather than simply equipped Blades would make it infinitely more tolerable..really hope they update that.

I'd argue I'm in the situation as you. The fact that the game feels and plays like a Xenoblade is more than enough for me, no matter all the annoyances it may have.