Oh I'm not undermining him at all XD, play the game and you'll see some undermining there lol.

style doesn't bother me very much. interesting video.

looking forward to this game. hope the gameplay improves on the past.

It was a bit mmo-lite, but I've always really liked the gameplay. Is this a common complaint?

i don't mean that the past gameplay was bad. i just mean that the most important thing for me to experience in a sequel is an improved or refreshed gameplay experience.

for me, the gameplay has always been my main reason to continue gaming.

Style will be subjective, but to me it’s already a massive improvement over X. Some of those characters looked absolutely hideous to me, I still have nightmares about that black haired girl with the bob-cut. Those cold dead eyes...*rocks back and forth*

I’m a lot more interested in how the gameplay has been improved, particularly in regards to inventory management. That was probably the weakest part of the previous two games.

I don't think the problem is the anime style, rather the samey generic bland anime style. Expressions aren't only possible in that style, they're just easier, which I would hope means they're focusing resources on gameplay and world building and not that they're just lazy. Personally I still prefer the original's style, but I don't think X2's is bad or anything, certainly wont affect my enjoyment of the game.

I'm perfectly fin with the art style, even though I'm not a fan of anime. What is more off-putting to me is the game itself. I get why people like this series but Xenoblade Chronicles X on the Wii U looked really complex and you needed this insane amount of time to finish it, apparently. If this game is more "inviting" I'll give it a shot but so far it looks like a real hardcore gamers' game and I'm just not the target demographic unfortunately.

I like it. I think it's a return to form for the Xeno series and its beginnings. (i.e. Xenogears and Saga) I like the mix between realistic features and anime as well but I think this was a good choice for this game.

Edit: Hiku stole my thunder, I couldn't have said it any better though.

I do very much like the shift in artstyle. Doing so to allow for more expressive characters especially is a great improvement over XCX, where while the enviroments looked beautiful, the characters' faces sometimes looks terrifying =_=

I've tried to keep a fairly modest view on XC2, after i hyped myself up for XCX after finishing XC and being quite disappointed in the end. I also don't want to instantly compare it to XC, rather, to allow it to shine on its own merits. From what i've seen though, i doesn't look to disappoint me at least.

I didn't mind it at it's reveal, but I still think it's growing more on me as time goes on, still definitely going to get this.