Wouldn't cast such a huge net but a healthy majority of anime does fit the shoe.  There's actually a drinking game mates and I play called "spot the trope" where you take a drink each time an anime cliche pops up.

I have an open mind. I have sampled anime and decided I don't like it.

I like both styles from XCX and XC2, I was surprised that it was a Xenoblade game though, thought it was something else at the start.

A case could be made that realistic looking art styles all look the same as well. 

But my stand point is that there are many nuances between anime art styles. There's not only one way of drawing anime. Just like there are many ways to stylize realistic visuals. Saying this looks generic just because it's anime style screams close minded to me.

The same open mind that prevented you from enjoying Wind Waker because of its look alone, right?

To me XCX's character designs look extremenly generic, uninspired and lifeless while X2 looks charming and alive. To you, it's the other way around. Why? I really don't know, and will probably don't agree anyway. So let's just agree to disagree here.

No, I'm actually excited about it since the style is more simplistic which will allow for more complex environments, will age better and the characters won't look like they have down syndrome this time around like they did on XCX. Also, goddamn ACE+ is back doing the OST, which was one of the bigger things that got me excited.

An open mind doesn't mean you have to like everything. But yeah, agreed to disagree.

Looks beautiful to me. The characters look like generic anime, but it beats the hell out of those fugly XCX faces, plus I like the cel-shading.

Game has the chance to be beautiful with an art style like Eternal Sonata or Tales of Vesperia. No need for an ugly big world game that's trying to go realism.

Honestly, I think all of Nintendo's fantasy-type games like FE, Zelda and Xenoblade should take on some kind of cel-shaded animation-type artstyle.  It makes the games age better, it's cheaper and faster to produce and it's not as hardware dependent like more realistic art directions are