LogFAQs > #892907493

Nearing the end game right now, and I'd say the game at its heart is better than Xenoblade Chronicles. That said, the utter head-scratcher that is the decision to make blades obtained via gacha hurts the game immensely. The blade system itself is REALLY cool, but who gets what blade - or if you even get good ones at all - is completely random.

That by itself wouldn't be too terrible, but the item to get a blade off of one character and on to another is absurdly rare. Like, three in the entire main game rare. (Plus 5 extremely late game and "farmable" through a nightmarishly tedious process post-game.)

I feel like they were going for a "no two players will have the same experience" type of thing with your party makeup being different on any given playthrough... but it doesn't really work because each character has a role that they clearly excel at, and pulling a tank blade on your healer for example with extremely finite chances to fix it just ends up being frustrating rather than a cool experience.

Even with that massive problem, I still feel like I'd be more likely to replay this than the first game, so maybe that gives you an idea of how good the "on" parts of this game are.
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