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chaosbowser posted...

adjl posted...

SilentSeph posted...

Have you played XC1 and XCX? If so, how is it compared to those?

It's definitely more similar to XC1 than to X, such that I kind of consider X to be a spinoff. Overall, I don't think I'd say 2 is as good as 1, but 1 is one of my favourite games ever, so that shouldn't be taken as reflecting poorly on 2. It is still a very thoroughly enjoyable game.

I liked 2 a lot more than I liked one. The gameplay is just more fun. I also found that it was a lot better at getting you into the game where with 1 it just threw too many things at you so quickly and poorly explained that I was overwhelmed and just didnt do any of it.

The things it did better, it did a lot better, especially having significant, meaningful sidequests instead of the fetch quest spam XC1 had (which I didn't mind because I saw it as an excuse to wander around the gorgeous world, but it did make it hard to find the few awesome quests among the rest of them). I didn't find that the world was quite as fun to explore, though (although it's still awesome), and I didn't like the characters nearly as well as I did Shulk and Co. The anime tropes were also a bit heavy-handed (particularly the costumes for female Blades), which I wasn't a huge fan of.

A lot of that is pretty subjective, though. As far as more objective critiques go, they're very comparable games and I'd heartily recommend both.

streamofthesky posted...

But I already have BotW on Wii U so XC2 is literally the only thing I'd buy Switch for right now.

Odyssey is also a must-have. A lot of that hype gets dismissed as people just being excited over it being the only good game on the system, but it is genuinely one of the absolute best games I have ever played. I can't remember the last time a game gave me such a consistent sense of joy and fun from start to finish. If you've ever enjoyed a platformer, definitely give it some serious consideration.

streamofthesky posted...

Once Octopath Traveler and Bayonetta 3 are out, it'll make more sense to get one.

Realistically, there isn't much reason to wait that long. Xenoblade's out now, Octopath's out in a week, and I have no reason to expect Bayonetta 3 to be canceled, so it's not like you stand to lose much by grabbing it now. At best, Bayonetta's a couple years out and the price will have dropped by then, but even then I don't imagine you'd save more than $50 or so. At least, that was my rationale for picking mine up on launch day, even though my library consisted exclusively of Zelda and Snipperclips for several months and I didn't touch the system again until Mario came out.
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