I like Xenoblade Chronicles. Xenoblade Chronicles has a good story and I like the combat.
But fuck man there's nothing to DO in this game. So much of your time is going to be spent walking around the beautiful but empty open world. Side quests and affinity are a boring slog since there is so much fetch questing involved, and even the combat (the best part of the game) is dragged down by the fact that you really can't fight monsters that are over 3 levels above you, which means that you can rarely ever challenge yourself, something the rest of the trilogy managed to solve. The chain attack is so awesome, but is dictated by RNG tied to shit that's just not fun to do.
Also I didn't play Future Connected. The chain attack is replaced by a side quest (gross), half of Shulk's monado arts are useless without vision (ew), and the story wasn't interesting enough for me to care about playing it myself (womp womp).
But fuck man there's nothing to DO in this game. So much of your time is going to be spent walking around the beautiful but empty open world. Side quests and affinity are a boring slog since there is so much fetch questing involved, and even the combat (the best part of the game) is dragged down by the fact that you really can't fight monsters that are over 3 levels above you, which means that you can rarely ever challenge yourself, something the rest of the trilogy managed to solve. The chain attack is so awesome, but is dictated by RNG tied to shit that's just not fun to do.
Also I didn't play Future Connected. The chain attack is replaced by a side quest (gross), half of Shulk's monado arts are useless without vision (ew), and the story wasn't interesting enough for me to care about playing it myself (womp womp).