Well to be fair, everything you listed is from 1 animation studio: Studio Ghibli.

But the gameplay in Xenoblade Chronicles is already great, as is performance.  

You should reread his comment, because that's not what you should have taken away from it.

Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, Wolf Children, Cowboy Bebop and Dragonball (the original). 

This thread is giving me a headache.

I didnt like the artstyle either. I liked Xenoblade on Wii artstyle alot more. Looks like a generic Final Fantasy game. Not saying it wont be any good

Care to elaborate? Final Fantasy games have been doing things differently from other RPGs, and from titles from its own series, since FF X...

I am not





Looks like an improvement to me

After XCX trailer was revealed:

"We want better character models that don't look like a goat threw shit into our eyes"
Monolith: "Alright we hear you! Here are character models that look good"
"Yea I like the old ones better, they have a certain type of uniqueness to them"
Monolith:

That's not what I said. You just explained what you don't like about anime. I said that that describes a narrow minded view of anime, because it does. You mentioned an anime you like, one that doesn't conform to the narrow-minded stereotypes you tried to push on "90% of anime." I said that there is much more anime that is more like the anime you liked and unlike the stereotype you dislike. I implied that disliking anime for the reasons you described is close minded, because I dislike anime that fits your description, and I find plenty of anime to enjoy.

I like Princess Mononoke. You like Princess Mononoke. That cancels the "if I dont like what you like" argument immediately. I'm saying that Princess Mononoke not having the things you dislike about anime isn't something that only graces a mere 10% of anime. Most anime isn't "overly melodramatic high school aged main characters, cutesy mascot co-stars, technicoloured hair, and other such widespread cliches."

I don't think I could get any more clear than this. I'm telling you the reality of what anime encompasses and you don't want to consider the possibility that it's the truth. That's the definition of being narrow minded. You're only hearing/seeing what you want to hear/see, refusing to consider the idea that reality might be more broad than what you first thought. There are thousands of thousands of anime content. Saying you don't like anime because it's cliché is like saying you don't like music or movies or websites or colors or stories or words because you heard a bunch of country songs or watched a bunch of rom-coms or clicked on a bunch of pop-up windows or have only ever seen different shades of the color green or only ever heard nursery rhymes or have only ever heard pronouns. You have to understand how frustrating that is to hear.

Anime is literally just Japanese animation. The Pikmin Short Films were technically anime. The Smash Bros. character trailers were technically anime. Every cutscene in Fatal Frame, a series you love, is technically anime. When you say "I don't like anime," you're saying "I don't when japanese people produce any product of animation, even if it looks, sounds, and read completely identical to something from any other territory."

The only reason I even say "I like anime" instead of "I like animation" is because Japan is the only place in the world where animation has such a high concentration of quanity that it has formed its own sub-culture.

Neither one of us has seen even 1% of all the anime ever made, but if you tried 100 cookies, and 95 of them made you sick, would you keep eating them?