This game was so bad it made me rethink how I judge games going forward.
Xenoblade X is bad in every regard, the open world is horribly designed. The map looks fine but the way you go about exploring it screws it all up, high level monsters on paths necessary for story progression, minutes which turn into hours of walking from one spot to another. Getting the Skell does fix this but by then you can just teleport around the place so the car form feels wasted.
The music feels like it was made for another game entirely and can teeter on catchy or annoying, for me it was the latter. Though if it is something you like go for it but I can't stand it for more than a hour at a time.
I don't usually give the slightest fuck about how someone spends their time, but this is an exception. The plot is delivered like how a MMO give you missions, you finish the main mission and to move you must meet certain requirements. that is fine on its own but when used intentionally to pad game length you leave the player with (and I timed this) 6-8 fucking hours of grinding just to do a mission that is over in a instant, that being 30 mins for chapter 5 excluding cut scenes. If my reward is nothing more than a video of people fumbling against the boss I just beat, you can go fuck yourself, that's not fun it's not even well written (much like this review).
I know writing down curse words is juvenile at best but seriously if you have to take anything from this review please let that be to avoid this game outright.
Xenoblade X is bad in every regard, the open world is horribly designed. The map looks fine but the way you go about exploring it screws it all up, high level monsters on paths necessary for story progression, minutes which turn into hours of walking from one spot to another. Getting the Skell does fix this but by then you can just teleport around the place so the car form feels wasted.
The music feels like it was made for another game entirely and can teeter on catchy or annoying, for me it was the latter. Though if it is something you like go for it but I can't stand it for more than a hour at a time.
I don't usually give the slightest fuck about how someone spends their time, but this is an exception. The plot is delivered like how a MMO give you missions, you finish the main mission and to move you must meet certain requirements. that is fine on its own but when used intentionally to pad game length you leave the player with (and I timed this) 6-8 fucking hours of grinding just to do a mission that is over in a instant, that being 30 mins for chapter 5 excluding cut scenes. If my reward is nothing more than a video of people fumbling against the boss I just beat, you can go fuck yourself, that's not fun it's not even well written (much like this review).
I know writing down curse words is juvenile at best but seriously if you have to take anything from this review please let that be to avoid this game outright.