| Asriel said: 70 hours in and 7 chapters done, I'll be taking a break (probably for a few weeks at least) while I concentrate on Mario + Rabbids and my second playthrough of Breath of the Wild. I thought the plot ramped up in chapter 7 and became quite interesting (even if every confrontation with the villains is predictable and repetitive), but chunks of the chapter gameplay-wise were a fairly boring slog. I love the game when it comes together, but it trips up over its own systems far more frequently than either Chronicles or X did. Undecided whether I'll power through and finish the main story when I go back to it, or take my time and go through side-quests and try and get more rare blades. I went through 70 common crystals and 8 rare crystals this weekend without a single new rare blade. Odds are once I've done the main story I'm never going to have time to go back to Chronicles 2 (unless the story-driven DLC is particularly good), so I'm hoping a break means I'll be likelier to spend time doing more sidequests and unlocking rare blades when I go back to it. |
77 hours in and I've done chapter 8 - I'm not sure what to do at this point!
I mean the story has really ramped up with Amalthus revealing his true colours. I wish you spent more time doing story stuff in Morytha, but chapter 8 was really strong all in all. Right now with the Titans all at the World Tree, it would just completely break my immersion in the story if I sauntered off around the world doing various quests, instead of concentrating on the world-ending scenario currently playing out. I'm guessing I don't have much more to go now - maybe 2 to 5 hours if I just move on up the World Tree and onto Indol to confront Amalthus and then Jin and Malos.
I have active side-quests I want to finish and more Blades to try and find. I have a couple of questions that people might be able to help with.
1) I've heard there's a 'point of no return' - is it easy to load your save up after finishing the main story and complete unfinished side quests?
2) NG+ adds new Blades - is it possible to get these in a normal playthrough, without starting NG+?
A problem for me is that I'm probably not going to have enough time to do a NG+ - but it is quite tempting given how you keep your Blades and Driver levels etc, and I guess if I took my time it would take me right up to the DLC release (I'll buy it if the story expansion is good).
