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Conegamer on 02 January 2011

Nice review, I want this game! And TLS...

If you want to do a story review, either just summarise the main story, or say how the first hour plays out. Or say spoilers in the thread title. That way, we know



 

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Chibi.V.29 on 02 January 2011
Conegamer said:

Nice review, I want this game! And TLS...

If you want to do a story review, either just summarise the main story, or say how the first hour plays out. Or say spoilers in the thread title. That way, we know


Thanx ^^

haha yh i might do like a section for Story and ten a summary section which you could have to highlight to see or something ^^



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Conegamer on 02 January 2011
Chibi.V.29 said:
Conegamer said:

Nice review, I want this game! And TLS...

If you want to do a story review, either just summarise the main story, or say how the first hour plays out. Or say spoilers in the thread title. That way, we know


Thanx ^^

haha yh i might do like a section for Story and ten a summary section which you could have to highlight to see or something ^^

That's a good idea, I anticipate your next review!

Make it The Last Story



 

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dahuman on 02 January 2011
Chibi.V.29 said:
Soriku said:
Chibi.V.29 said:

Fair enough ^^ 

I just finished the story today :P I havnt been of VGC for a few days cos i was playing through the game almost flat out XD The basic premise of the story was basic enough but the actually way its presented it fantastic. My wary was that as it was such a vast choice in how you play the game and explore that the story may have been slightly lacking compared to many jrpg's i was however problem wrong :P In all it will take you anywhere between 40 - 70 hours to finish through the game once. Some scenes in the game literally made me go O_O


lol...I was expecting more but OK. Did you play Xenosaga? If you did how do you like Xenoblade's story compared to that?


Lol sorry im kinda tired XD it almost 3am :P and i havnt ever played Xenosaga before (THE SHAME!)


This game's story is nothing like Xenosaga. It's not as rushed or clichce.



Conegamer on 02 January 2011
Chibi.V.29 said:
Conegamer said:

Nice review, I want this game! And TLS...

If you want to do a story review, either just summarise the main story, or say how the first hour plays out. Or say spoilers in the thread title. That way, we know


Thanx ^^

haha yh i might do like a section for Story and ten a summary section which you could have to highlight to see or something ^^

Actually, have you played Tales of Grace? I'd like to know what that is like, and your opinion seems pretty reliable



 

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Packie on 02 January 2011

This is actually a pretty good review for a first timer but I have some minor nitpicks.

While it's nice and understandable that you don't want to spoil the game's plot, I still don't know what the game is actually about. you haven't touched on the characters, the setting or the overall plot. be more descriptive about the game like what it's about or telling us who's the main character or mentioning that it has a mideval fantasy setting or a sci-fi one...etc.

In the music section, you spent half the paragraph explaining how music is important to a game but you've barely talked about Xenoblade's own soundtrack other than that you really liked it and found it beautiful. which is cool since it's your review and it's your opinion but ,again, be a little more descriptive about it like describing what type of music plays during the game(orchestral, rock, pop...etc.), or describe if the music fits the game's atmosphere and flows naturally.

Other than that, it was a good review and I'm actually looking forward to your next import review. :D



dahuman on 02 January 2011
Packie said:

This is actually a pretty good review for a first timer but I have some minor nitpicks.

While it's nice and understandable that you don't want to spoil the game's plot, I still don't know what the game is actually about. you haven't touched on the characters, the setting or the overall plot. be more descriptive about the game like what it's about or telling us who's the main character or mentioning that it has a mideval fantasy setting or a sci-fi one...etc.

In the music section, you spent half the paragraph explaining how music is important to a game but you've barely talked about Xenoblade's own soundtrack other than that you really liked it and found it beautiful. which is cool since it's your review and it's your opinion but ,again, be a little more descriptive about it like describing what type of music plays during the game(orchestral, rock, pop...etc.), or describe if the music fits the game's atmosphere and flows naturally.

Other than that, it was a good review and I'm actually looking forward to your next import review. :D


The music is just well placed and sound right for the situation or environment you are in, the open world music is very relaxed and sounds great with violin tunes when you are running around. The city music fit very well with the areas you are looking at. The battle songs are well paced too, it's just really good. Here is the link to a playlist, you can check them out here http://bit.ly/99onVo

Story wise, well, I'ma just say that there is a war going on with the 2 sides and Monado is the only sword that would be the deciding factor in fighting the ummm.... big dudes that you face. This is not a very cliche JRPG, that's for sure, I can't give out too much info on the story since they are pretty important for the player to find out. You HAVE TO play this game dood. They need to bring this out of Japan so people can really play this and know how good this game is.



g-value on 02 January 2011
dahuman said:
Chibi.V.29 said:
Soriku said:
Chibi.V.29 said:

Fair enough ^^ 

I just finished the story today :P I havnt been of VGC for a few days cos i was playing through the game almost flat out XD The basic premise of the story was basic enough but the actually way its presented it fantastic. My wary was that as it was such a vast choice in how you play the game and explore that the story may have been slightly lacking compared to many jrpg's i was however problem wrong :P In all it will take you anywhere between 40 - 70 hours to finish through the game once. Some scenes in the game literally made me go O_O


lol...I was expecting more but OK. Did you play Xenosaga? If you did how do you like Xenoblade's story compared to that?


Lol sorry im kinda tired XD it almost 3am :P and i havnt ever played Xenosaga before (THE SHAME!)


This game's story is nothing like Xenosaga. It's not as rushed or clichce.

I can understand how you may have felt that Xenosaga was rushed, but how was it that cliche? It had some cliches, sure, but it had alot of originality too it.



g-value on 02 January 2011

Back on topic, this was a cool review. I've already been extremely hyped for this game, and this review doesn't change that at all.



g-value on 02 January 2011
dahuman said:
Packie said:

This is actually a pretty good review for a first timer but I have some minor nitpicks.

While it's nice and understandable that you don't want to spoil the game's plot, I still don't know what the game is actually about. you haven't touched on the characters, the setting or the overall plot. be more descriptive about the game like what it's about or telling us who's the main character or mentioning that it has a mideval fantasy setting or a sci-fi one...etc.

In the music section, you spent half the paragraph explaining how music is important to a game but you've barely talked about Xenoblade's own soundtrack other than that you really liked it and found it beautiful. which is cool since it's your review and it's your opinion but ,again, be a little more descriptive about it like describing what type of music plays during the game(orchestral, rock, pop...etc.), or describe if the music fits the game's atmosphere and flows naturally.

Other than that, it was a good review and I'm actually looking forward to your next import review. :D


The music is just well placed and sound right for the situation or environment you are in, the open world music is very relaxed and sounds great with violin tunes when you are running around. The city music fit very well with the areas you are looking at. The battle songs are well paced too, it's just really good. Here is the link to a playlist, you can check them out here http://bit.ly/99onVo

Story wise, well, I'ma just say that there is a war going on with the 2 sides and Monado is the only sword that would be the deciding factor in fighting the ummm.... big dudes that you face. This is not a very cliche JRPG, that's for sure, I can't give out too much info on the story since they are pretty important for the player to find out. You HAVE TO play this game dood. They need to bring this out of Japan so people can really play this and know how good this game is.

Quick question, does any of the titles of the OST songs carry any spoilers?