ssssooo first playthrough and it's all good so far (^^)b

I have monster hunter tri and I have to say the graphics in Xenoblade blow that away easily :P

The draw distance is amazing! bit strange on the close stuff though somethings seem to appear faster than

others but it's not off putting. Character models are alright although sometimes the faces look weird and other times

they look perfectly fine (^^;

I really love the freedom though, the fact you can go anywhere and jump off anything has awoken the lemming in me rofl and I keep wanting to jump of things :D I haven't died from a fall yet (although I almost did)

So far I've been exploring, still haven't been all the way round the colony yet!

About battles - so the first battle you have is actually in the intro, you control Dunban as they fight off the Kishin troops, the combat seems simple with you moving around and waiting for your special moves to become available. I'm sure it will become better once I face more difficult enemies.Also most creatures and passive but some aren't, but even if the monster wants to attack you you can still run away until they give up.

About controls - The controls are very easy to work out and I didn't need to look at the manual to work out anything at all. Camera is good mostly although in the city when you go to some small tight areas it acts funny but I figured out that it's actually try to move through the scenery like it was actually there! strange way to make the camera me thinks.

Other things - Quests are found all around the place and people with quests have an exclamtion mark above their head. Main story quests are shown by the arrow leading you where to go next but this can be ignored. If it is a main quest then the game does a good job of helping you by marking out the people you have to find with a red exclamation mark. The relationship thing was interesting and once found and activated you go through a conversation and have to pick the best answers, it would be interesting to go back and choose the wrong ones and see what happens :P

Once you have a party it's very easy to switch the leader, and each character moves differently. Shulks jump is kinda gay lol but Fiorun's is pretty good :)

Music is really good and the time changer and telportation systems work really well

That's all I can think of right now but I'll try and write again once I've played it more (^^)

If there are any qeustions just ask

haha you know what I actually tried the thing they did on andriasang :P

I "accidently" pressed a button and took all of Fioruns clothes off XP

*minor spoilers*

So the story, my japanese is good but not perfect so I got most of it so far, and I'm only at the begining.

[story stuff]

And that's all folks for now :P At the moment Shulk seems a little different from most main characters as he seems to just want to find out why the kishin are attacking them and the secret of monado.

Gotta go to work, later people.

thanks dude :)

i'm not extremely impressed with the story up to now, but it can only get better, right? :p