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Naruto_fan_42 posted...

I googled it and it said Monolith Soft said it was coming to Switch. I finished the original Xenoblade and wanted to play another one, when I found out X had mechs I was sold lol

X is good but it's fairly different to 1 and 2. The story is so weird in that game. It feels like it had 2 writers. The overall sci-fi part of the plot with the lifehold and robots and stuff was actually really good, but the rest of the story like the bad guys and their motives were just...awful. Like to the point of being funny.

The world is awesome and feels like a real ecosystem which makes progressing through the game really satisfying because your way of traversing the same areas changes as you effectively move up the food chain. You really have to keep a lookout early on to avoid a lot of tough enemies everywhere. There are no high level areas and low level areas, it's all mixed. But then later on you only have to watch out for the scariest enemies and eventually even they can't stop you. That's mixed with running around on foot at first, to then running around at a much higher viewpoint in mecha, to eventually flying around once everything is trivial. I've never really seen level mixed areas and travel used so effectively outside of maybe ARK but arguably ark sort of ruins it because fliers are too easy to tame.

Also the bomber side quest is IMO the worst side quest to ever exist in a video game. Fuck that quest, gimme those 12 or so hours of my life back.

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