These 2, my favorite users right now.

But every time I buy a box of cookies, most of them are burnt/moldly. This discourages me from buying more boxes of cookies, not out of closed mindedness, but simply based on statistics. I acknowledge the existence of tasty cookies that I haven't tasted before, and I do not claim all cookies are moldly, but my general opinion of cookies is that they're (mostly) not nice.

The problem is how judgemental people are. When Xenoblade/XCX came out, there was criticism towards the face models. People claimed it was ugly, lifeless, etc.

Now we have removed the mediocre models, but the characters have an anime-like appearance. I understand if you don't like anime, but the amount of blind criticism the game is receiving for the changes seems uncalled for. I haven't seen any sort of criticism towards Zelda's new looks, so it seriously seems people are either placing double standards or just like to complain for the sake of complaining.

The problem is how judgemental people are. When Xenoblade/XCX came out, there was criticism towards the face models. People claimed it was ugly, lifeless, etc.

Now we have removed the mediocre models, but the characters have an anime-like appearance. I understand if you don't like anime, but the amount of blind criticism the game is receiving for the changes seems uncalled for. I haven't seen any sort of criticism towards Zelda's new looks, so it seriously seems people are either placing double standards or just like to complain for the sake of complaining.

This analogy is taking a nose dive. You buying only moldy cookies is what makes all of the cookies you buy moldy. You're choosing moldy cookies, and then saying that most cookies are moldy. You're saying that you don't like cookies because most cookies are moldy. I'd saying that most cookies aren't moldy. Just stop buying cookies labeled mouldy.

If you don't like high school anime, watch something else. If you don't like crazy hair color, watch something else. If you don't like melodrama, watch something else. But don't say you don't like anime because most of it is high school melodrama with crazy hair colors, because that's not true and you going on believing that you don't like most of anime because of the incorrect assumption that most is like that is narrow minded.

It doesn't make sense to me. Princess Mononoke isn't unique. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of different anime of that ilk. You know how the cookie you like looks like, and you know how the cookie you don't like looks like. Stop eating cookies you don't like and then saying you don't like cookies. I wouldn't eat only avacados 9/10 days for a year and then declare that I don't like food because 90% of it makes me want to throw up.

To be fair, not a lot of makers manage to make the cell-shaded style to look as awesomely and as "alive" as what's found in Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild.

Only Ni No Kuni and Gravity Rush 2 comes to mind.

You haven't heard coplaints about Zelda because there isn't much to complain about. I think XC2 looks good, but it definitely has a generic, stereotypically anime art style. That's a legitimate area of complaint, even if it doesn't look bad.

Also Zelda is bae.

I didn't get around to write one.

Which reminds me of last year's failed mega project to finish the thing in its entirety with an estimated time of 250 hours. I broke down after 210 hours because I couldn't see the game anymore. Got a 100% exploration rate, finished all missions except one basic one that involved killing a certain tyrant, killed all tyrants except ~10, had gotten 731/749 trophies. The missing tyrants and trophies required yet another round of heavy grinding after I had done so many before; I think I could have fulfilled the original estimate of 250 hours, but I couldn't do it anymore. Also, the plan to max out all skills turned into a huge bust, because the avatar gets way too few skill points and grinding them is a nightmare.

Game world is great, freedom is good, content until the credits is motivating. But once you move to the postgame content you soon get slammed with ridiculous grinding. There's no smooth progression from tackling one thing and then moving on to the next; you have a huge hill to climb before you can do some actually new things again. This game was big enough to not fall back on cheap tactics to lengthen the playtime, but it fell into that trap big time.

I'd still rate it 8.4/10, but it's clearly not as good as the first game.

I'd rather have Xenoblade 2 with a smaller game world that has more interesting things to do. A growth in quality instead of pursuing quantity, so to say.

I've gone out of my way to try different types and avoid stuff I dislike, and in most cases I still don't like what I get.

I simply do not like anime in general, I don't know why you have such an issue with that.

I didn't get around to write one.

Which reminds me of last year's failed mega project to finish the thing in its entirety with an estimated time of 250 hours. I broke down after 210 hours because I couldn't see the game anymore. Got a 100% exploration rate, finished all missions except one basic one that involved killing a certain tyrant, killed all tyrants except ~10, had gotten 731/749 trophies. The missing tyrants and trophies required yet another round of heavy grinding after I had done so many before; I think I could have fulfilled the original estimate of 250 hours, but I couldn't do it anymore. Also, the plan to max out all skills turned into a huge bust, because the avatar gets way too few skill points and grinding them is a nightmare.

Game world is great, freedom is good, content until the credits is motivating. But once you move to the postgame content you soon get slammed with ridiculous grinding. There's no smooth progression from tackling one thing and then moving on to the next; you have a huge hill to climb before you can do some actually new things again. This game was big enough to not fall back on cheap tactics to lengthen the playtime, but it fell into that trap big time.

I'd still rate it 8.4/10, but it's clearly not as good as the first game.

I'd rather have Xenoblade 2 with a smaller game world that has more interesting things to do. A growth in quality instead of pursuing quantity, so to say.