so, i had enough of these dumb sidequests and went ahead and beat xenoblade. didn't finish up rebuilding colony 6 or got any of the monado copies or did all the love meeting thingies but i feel i wasn't gonna anyways. i'm not really the completionist type and i'm not really playing this series for that reason
been chronicling some of my progress of the xeno series in the steam thread, starting with xenosaga (xenogears is one of my favorite games and i've already beaten it a couple times) and now xenoblade, tho not all that much on the latter since i feel the game is repetitive enough that you run out of things to say about it past some time.
hard to set a final feeling for this one, it was certainly not what i hoped it'd be (even tho it randomly gets all evangelion-like at the very end, which i very much appreciate) and it's full of the many things i hate about modern gaming (like the mmo/assassins creed timewaster megaton of quests) but it had enough memorable moments and characters that i stuck with it, so it wasn't so bad. i mean, i played it for 100 hours, and while i already regret a whole bunch of them wasted on boring fetch quests, i liked most of it and now i can't help but feel a bit sad there's no more xeno games for me to play.
and xenosaga, man, thinking back i may actually like it even more than xenogears. maybe it's characters having voices and being all animated and shit and every game in the series having more cutscenes than all metal gears combined but it was just unforgettable and it just wraps up in such a comforting way i get happy just thinking about it. i wrote a ton about xenosaga in the steam thread already but i have a hard time thinking another game that achieved the same scale of events and characters and concepts, even if i personally think its plot is pretty much excellently dressed up nonsense.
but like, that's exactly what i want of those games, it's what enamored me about xenogears, an insane mix of ideas and concepts narrated through a lovable cast
. xenoblade unfortunately didn't fully commit and i guess it's a different audience and it's not really a fault of the game, but as such it ends up being my least favorite xeno game, and the only one i don't think of as great.
i guess that 'x' game for wii u sounds pretty beast, what with the xenogears style logo and everything, but you know, i probably won't ever buy a wii u and emulating takes years.
so that's it, i could really go on how i think the boredlands balance system of YOU MISS EVERY ATTACK ON AN ENEMY 5 LEVELS ABOVE YOU is bullshit, or how the soundtrack is amazing, or how reyn is a total bro, dunban is a character out of gurren lagann and the entire nopon race is the cutest thing ever, but i think that's been covered already. this is just my opinion on how blade stands in comparison with the other xeno games and how it affected me personally
anyways, discuss, opine, etc! i don't make threads often (i think my last one was for drakengard) and i probably should've made this as i played it but here we are
ps: messed up switching items from character to character in the equipment screen before going into the final boss and melia spent the whole ending scene with no pants lol. i wanted to get some swimsuits on in typical xenosaga fashion but they're so awful in stats in this game it just feels wrong.
been chronicling some of my progress of the xeno series in the steam thread, starting with xenosaga (xenogears is one of my favorite games and i've already beaten it a couple times) and now xenoblade, tho not all that much on the latter since i feel the game is repetitive enough that you run out of things to say about it past some time.
hard to set a final feeling for this one, it was certainly not what i hoped it'd be (even tho it randomly gets all evangelion-like at the very end, which i very much appreciate) and it's full of the many things i hate about modern gaming (like the mmo/assassins creed timewaster megaton of quests) but it had enough memorable moments and characters that i stuck with it, so it wasn't so bad. i mean, i played it for 100 hours, and while i already regret a whole bunch of them wasted on boring fetch quests, i liked most of it and now i can't help but feel a bit sad there's no more xeno games for me to play.
and xenosaga, man, thinking back i may actually like it even more than xenogears. maybe it's characters having voices and being all animated and shit and every game in the series having more cutscenes than all metal gears combined but it was just unforgettable and it just wraps up in such a comforting way i get happy just thinking about it. i wrote a ton about xenosaga in the steam thread already but i have a hard time thinking another game that achieved the same scale of events and characters and concepts, even if i personally think its plot is pretty much excellently dressed up nonsense.
but like, that's exactly what i want of those games, it's what enamored me about xenogears, an insane mix of ideas and concepts narrated through a lovable cast
with MECHAS
i guess that 'x' game for wii u sounds pretty beast, what with the xenogears style logo and everything, but you know, i probably won't ever buy a wii u and emulating takes years.
so that's it, i could really go on how i think the boredlands balance system of YOU MISS EVERY ATTACK ON AN ENEMY 5 LEVELS ABOVE YOU is bullshit, or how the soundtrack is amazing, or how reyn is a total bro, dunban is a character out of gurren lagann and the entire nopon race is the cutest thing ever, but i think that's been covered already. this is just my opinion on how blade stands in comparison with the other xeno games and how it affected me personally
anyways, discuss, opine, etc! i don't make threads often (i think my last one was for drakengard) and i probably should've made this as i played it but here we are
ps: messed up switching items from character to character in the equipment screen before going into the final boss and melia spent the whole ending scene with no pants lol. i wanted to get some swimsuits on in typical xenosaga fashion but they're so awful in stats in this game it just feels wrong.
