I think there might be a story here. Something you want to tell us, Yuri? d:

I'm really looking forward to getting my copy either today or on Tuesday. Even though I've never played the game I have a history with it. Back in early 2012 I was studying hard in university and me and a friend discussed which games we should get to reward ourselves for passing the exams. I thought the Xenoblade special edition with the red Classic Controller Pro looked awesome, but I had also waited to play Skyrim on my PS3 (the PS3 version of Skyrim had a bug where the frame rate would lower the more you played the game, and patching this took the devs months). I leaned towards Xenoblade, but she told me how amazing Skyrim was and many of my friends played and loved it... so I bought Skyrim.

When I was ready to play Xenoblade the prices for the game had gone up considerably. I never got around to playing it but I did look at the edition with that red Classic Controller Pro quite a few times. And I bought Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch partially because I regretted not having played the first one. I didn't play the Xenoblade 3DS port because it looked inferior to the Wii game. Now I can finally play it, and in the best version, too! 

Might be a bit too lewd for this site loll

Why am I getting absolutely destroyed in the Tephra caves? Sure I have expert mode on and haven't distributed exp, but I don't remember doing many sidequestes in the original, and didn't have nearly this much trouble. Plus I used my Xenoblade 2 bonus to actually by decent armor.

Can't wait to get it! There's been so much talk about resolution this resolution that, but to me it looks exactly like how i remember it looked like when i 1st played it on the Wii all those years ago (not saying it looks like a Wii game in terms of resolution tho).

Could be both.  I was at level 5 when I entered the cave.

That seems like a problem with expert mode.  It's kind of hard to judge where you "should" be.  So far, doesn't seem like there is a recommended level or anything like that. 

Can't you turn it on and off? Maybe leave it off for the first 15 hours or so, while you get re-adjusted to the game.

Yeah, but in RPGs you're not always meant to be at exactly the same level esp since enemies may attack in groups.  It's a guideline, but even matching their levels I was having trouble.  Which of course could just mean I suck.

Did you try fighting the giant worm surrounded by other smaller worms at the entrance? Because you should probably skip that battle for now xD

Nah, I walked around it like a good boy.