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What is the best 'major' area in the game?

Colony 9 39 12.34%
 
Bionis' Leg 83 26.27%
 
The Marsh 20 6.33%
 
The Forest 17 5.38%
 
The Sea 24 7.59%
 
The Mountain 13 4.11%
 
The Valley 5 1.58%
 
Fallen Arm 22 6.96%
 
The Field of Metal 9 2.85%
 
See results! 73 23.10%
 
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Mr Khan on 19 July 2012

Wicked. All bonds are pink, and on the last engagement to raise the last pair (Riki leading Sharla and Reyn, as Riki's bonds with both were the last to go) i managed to very slowly wear the UM into submission, with Reyn dead through most of the fight, a very slow process of poison/bleed/freeze with Sharla putting all her effort into keeping Riki up.



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AndrewWK on 19 July 2012
Soriku said:
AndrewWK said:
Soriku said:
AndrewWK said:

It comes when get into this certain area, it is like the area theme or something. I know it was awesome the best track in the game, I can´t remember where it was.


Umm...that' really vague lol :P You can't remember what the area was at all? Town or field? Any instruments you rememeber?

it was field and there where guitar and drums.


Hmm...Mechonis Field? If it's late game then it's really easy to pin down the area (unless you're not talking about a battle theme). Just go on Youtube and search Mechonis Field, Sword Valley, Central Factory or Agniratha (3/4 are more like dungeons though).

Yes it was the mechonis field best soundtrack in the game. Downloaded it for my iPhone 4



Mr Khan on 19 July 2012

17 heart-to-heart convos to go. No wonder i had never found the Shulk-Sharla Pink, it's on top of the building that comes in with Special Reconstruction level 5. Spent one hell of a long time clearing out the Audience Chamber, that place was loaded with vicious Telethia that were right in the way of the Heart-to-Heart near the throne



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AndrewWK on 19 July 2012
Soriku said:
AndrewWK said:

Yes it was the mechonis field best soundtrack in the game. Downloaded it for my iPhone 4


Cool. I think everyone likes that track :P


A dubstep remix would be freakin awesome.



Conegamer on 20 July 2012
AndrewWK said:
Soriku said:
AndrewWK said:

Yes it was the mechonis field best soundtrack in the game. Downloaded it for my iPhone 4


Cool. I think everyone likes that track :P


A dubstep remix would be freakin awesome.

I'm not so certain...but it is a great track. Very atmospheric. But so is Agniratha as well, but that's more sad.



 

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Conegamer on 20 July 2012
Mr Khan said:

17 heart-to-heart convos to go. No wonder i had never found the Shulk-Sharla Pink, it's on top of the building that comes in with Special Reconstruction level 5. Spent one hell of a long time clearing out the Audience Chamber, that place was loaded with vicious Telethia that were right in the way of the Heart-to-Heart near the throne

Yeah, I missed that one as well. Great H2H though! 

And yeah, that room is a pain, but it is the last one! So it doesn't hurt :P



 

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Conegamer on 20 July 2012
KylieDog said:
The more I play this the more I think this game is overrated.

Before people jump down my throat let me say it is a very good game and I am enjoying it a lot, it reminds me very much of Final Fantasy XII, a game which is my all time fav JRPG by a clear mile. However FFXII released 5-6 years ago and had much more freedom to the battle system (control all) and class building (build members how you like).

Xenoblade is great compared to other JRPGs this gen, which have been pretty crap all round and vastly worse than last gen, but it hasn't advanced JRPGs at all. Seems to get special praise just for being up to last gen JRPG standards.

That's cool. However, may I just ask where you've reached?

For example, walking out onto Bionis' Leg is just under the 10% mark of the game, and JRPG's don't really get going until the 15-20% mark (in this case, just in the Ether Mine, even if the area is meh, the story progression at the end is when the game really got going for me).

I agree it's slow, monotonous and droll at the start. But most JRPG's are. Don't write the game off just yet. The further in you get, the more you see it develops the genre in small ways (quick-travel, spike, Arts, skill links, open areas, quests, gems, Colony 6 etc.)

The game should not, in my opinion, be seen as a defining point in the genre because it advances the genre. It takes small, yet significant steps, towards modernisation. The game should be enjoyed because what it does, it does right.

 

That's my opinion anyway. Feel free to disagree, and I'm very glad you enjoy it. I suppose when I played it though a year ago, I didn't have all the expectations.



 

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Faxanadu on 20 July 2012

I decided to play Pandoras Tower first - the Lady/Skeleton combo was just way too intruiging. Once I start Xenoblade, I will be back here.



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Conegamer on 20 July 2012
Faxanadu said:
I decided to play Pandoras Tower first - the Lady/Skeleton combo was just way too intruiging. Once I start Xenoblade, I will be back here.

A good choice. It is a damn good game, admittadly.

I'll probably set up a Pandora's Tower thread and reactivate the The Last Story thread when the game is released in America, so I look forward to hearing your opinions!

Personally, I'd rank them as follows:

 

Xenoblade>Pandora's Tower>TLS

 

Though, all 3 are damn good.



 

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AndrewWK on 20 July 2012
KylieDog said:


I've just defeated Xord, permantly.  Plus done the battle outside the mines. Kinda of annoying you have so many boss fights and they all end early until that battle and you don't even need deplete the health bars, then in the final battle with him you don't even need do what was required to hurt him in the previous ones, he is permanently open to all damage.

I done almost all side quests up to just before entering the mines, decided to stop because I seem to be outleveling monsters and finding little challenge.  Are the side quests important to story at all?  I may just skip them all.

Thats what I hated most, you some boses 3 or times.