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KCF0107 posted...

After all the hype I've heard about Xenoblade here for the past decade, I have found the first hour or so very underwhelming. Plenty of systems I don't care about, a battle system/structure that seems like an awkward amalgamation of FFXII, Dragon Age: Origins, and Tales of/Okami, and the "Definitive Edition" graphical update/overhaul only seems to extend to primary character models because everything else looks very rough.

I'm 25 hours in and still trying to figure that out.

I'm on Chapter 8 at the moment and I kind of hate this area. It's fucking enormous in that empty, cavernous MMO kind of way. There's a bunch of islands that are a pain to navigate. Then there's the city with the, at this point, rote NPC quest givers and random items just spread all the fuck over the place, in a manner that takes just forever to go from one side to another.

At least the story bits have opened up quite a lot in this chapter?

I've also realized how stupid doing the combat is unless you're going to get quest rewards from doing it. I swear, you get more XP from just discovering new locations than you do a dozen random battles.