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Mar1217 said:

Btb, I just ... Finished Xenoblade Chronicles X original main story (no extra chapters done) and despite knowing of the content and spoilers that were ahead, I fully understand now the reaction that people had when they saw it back then ...

And how infuriating that shit must've been to wait out for years to have chance to get some answers or closure back in this case.
Story wise, it's a such a low mix for most of the run time really with barely anytime to really build up on its concepts introduced early on. (Or moreso the lack of them)
Last 2 chapters arrive and the game finally wakes up from it's lethargy and decides to get on what makes Xeno games narrative so interesting, philosophical debates on the nature of humanity, relations, life n death contextualized in a cool fantasy/Sci-fi setting.

Once again, a game in the Xeno series that refuses to get it's best hooks early on and relate most of the better content(arguably) for the later portion of it's game. Which I like games with this approach better honestly.

I could talk about the Open World and it's brilliant design, the quests system which is where "JRPG's side quest can be good" began, especially the more you do and opens more interesting longer quest-chains in the latter portion of the game.
But I'll reserve some thoughts until I'm completely thorough with the game.

Spoiler!

The ending actually made things worse. The whole game is about making a new life on Mira then it's like "ok now time to go somewhere else". Oh, and this random dude is now the main character.