Xenoblade Chronicles: The Original, The Remake, The Legacy

No one told me this was a hangout game

  • Enormous irrelevent affinity chart showing relationships between NPCs that auto-updates as you speak to them
  • unnecessary jump button in a JRPG
  • no invisible wall to prevent you from jumping from a city to the lake 30m below and having to swim and run 3 minutes to backtrack to where you were
  • The ability to either zoom the hell out or zoom the hell in so much you enter first person mode; two opposite ways to put the focus on the great environments instead of the characters. I’m playing most of the game in 1st person and it’s pretty janky but it rules
  • very shallow battle system that’s little more than just a fancy level + equipment check

I can’t imagine this game on either the Wii or the 3ds

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