Yeah, this game is quite ambitious and epic. That´s why everybody tries to downgrade it.
- The game have impressive graphics for the console with a sense of scale never seen before in a open world game -> "oh those characters models are awfull, ps2 graphics lololo"
- Is one of the biggest open worlds ever made on a console, wich is something mainstream gamers completely adore since the last gen, even when half of the games they like are boring fetch quests with empty worlds. -> "Oh but sure is gonna feel empty, I havent played the game, but since is gonna be empty I don´t care about it, even if the previous Xenoblade didn´t feel empty being massive".
- Looks like the game is gonna be really good: it´s beautiful, epic, massive, it has the great combat system of the previous one, and is the most ambitious game of the great Monolithsoft - "Oh but Famitsu, that magazine that nobody trust, give the game a slighty lower score than the previous one, and some amazon japanese reviews are bad, and since that is super reliable always, the game is sure a dissapoiniting. That´s obvious."
Oh and don´t forguet the shitstorm this game had when it was revealed it had dlc, I remember it was compared with The Witcher 3 for that, just to show how greedy is Nintendo. At the end, Witcher 3 has several pay dlcs but all XCX dlc are completely free on the west. Yup...
At the end of the day, this a Nintendo exclusive, so better make an effort to believe the game is bad so you don´t feel bad for not having a WiiU.