NEW PLAYERS. COMPLETE COLONY 6. It's tedius as hell but well worth it.

Yeah reaching Gaur Plain is really one of those moments. The way you emerge from the canyon and see the plains and mountains spreading out before you with the Mechonis looming beyond the clouds, just amazing.

Getting the hang of the combat again. Also remembering why I loved using Melia so much. She can actually topple on her own. Whereas when playing as Shulk I need to rely on Reyn who for some reason is vehemently opposed to using wild down.

Been reminded of that pretty quickly too. I think the cooldown is rather long. So either break the enemy right at the start, or wait for a good bit before trying it. Dunban can also topple on his own.

Even when I break the enemy right at the start, he still won't do it.  And the cooldown is actually shorter than stream edge right now, so he should generally be good to go whenever I am, so long as he hasn't used it in between (which he never seems to do).

I think he just doesn't understand he should change targets, so I've been manually focussing the attack on my target before breaking.  But even then he'll sometimes just not do it. 

My copy won't be here til the 2nd unless riots break out again. I am both dreading and looking forward to rebuilding colony 6. It reminded me when you built the town on the island in SKies of Arcadia. BOTW had a similar quest. I hate the process of the quests but the reward is always more than worth it.

In a large scale, open-world RPG the experience of exploration (i.e. the world) is probably the most important element. XBX looks heads and tails better than XC2 and XBC:DE from a picture quality perspective. I have a harder time appreciating the work that was put in on these Switch titles, because I am constantly distracted by the muddy visuals. Keep in mind, I mainly game on a projector with a 120" viewing area, so the "doesn't looks so bad" argument doesn't go very far for me. 

XC2 is a beautifully crafted game, but it already needs a "remaster" -- aka visual/performance patch for Switch Pro. 

So... I figured out that in casual mode you can pretty much kill anything, regardless of level... So as soon as I got Shula, I just started grinding the high level enemies. Now I’m at level 90 and still haven’t left the leg...🤗

You're gonna have to kill quite a lot of enemies to gain AP and SP, as the amount you get from enemies scales depending on your level compared to theirs.

Damn, played through the game twice and never caught that. I'm not surprised though, one of the game's greatest aspects is the world it creates.