2.5★ - I like the game.
I'm going to be grilled for this one. I'm sorry to say I just couldn't get into this game or correction, I could until you get past a certain point in the story where I begin to feel the padding of the game. Battles being slow, the amount of filler story quests compared to before. The endless amount of the same side quest over and over (The task is the same, but the context is different for each quest).
However, I can see what people like. If I hadn't had the story twists spoiled I might have felt a lot more highly during the last 40 hours of the game. The world is amazing to traverse and beautiful to look at. The music hypes up every moment perfectly and I don't know what this means but the final boss music felt quite toned down compared to some of the other tracks used at other moments of the game (I went back to the final boss track and my speakers must have been bad because those guitar riffs are so good). I could see this combat working if it was refined a bit more but there tends to be too much going on at once during certain fights that it makes it frustrating to deal with.
The story is great for the most part. I would say around the 3rd act of the story the pacing becomes pretty bad. Considering I didn't need to grind at all for the whole game until the final chapter due to a level spike. The story up until the 3rd act just keeps rolling on and leaves little space to do side quests without feeling like you're neglecting the world and the importance of the task at hand. This to me is a big issue when the game has 400+ quests.
I've been quite a bit negative here and it may have been from expectations from everyone else calling this game a masterpiece or perfect. This game is good with some problems. It's definitely a love-dislike thing for me which from what I've seen from fans of the series seems to be the case for every Xeno game ever.
(If you reply to this review don't be toxic. If you can give me tips for any possible replays to make me love the game more I will gladly accept.)
I'm going to be grilled for this one. I'm sorry to say I just couldn't get into this game or correction, I could until you get past a certain point in the story where I begin to feel the padding of the game. Battles being slow, the amount of filler story quests compared to before. The endless amount of the same side quest over and over (The task is the same, but the context is different for each quest).
However, I can see what people like. If I hadn't had the story twists spoiled I might have felt a lot more highly during the last 40 hours of the game. The world is amazing to traverse and beautiful to look at. The music hypes up every moment perfectly and I don't know what this means but the final boss music felt quite toned down compared to some of the other tracks used at other moments of the game (I went back to the final boss track and my speakers must have been bad because those guitar riffs are so good). I could see this combat working if it was refined a bit more but there tends to be too much going on at once during certain fights that it makes it frustrating to deal with.
The story is great for the most part. I would say around the 3rd act of the story the pacing becomes pretty bad. Considering I didn't need to grind at all for the whole game until the final chapter due to a level spike. The story up until the 3rd act just keeps rolling on and leaves little space to do side quests without feeling like you're neglecting the world and the importance of the task at hand. This to me is a big issue when the game has 400+ quests.
I've been quite a bit negative here and it may have been from expectations from everyone else calling this game a masterpiece or perfect. This game is good with some problems. It's definitely a love-dislike thing for me which from what I've seen from fans of the series seems to be the case for every Xeno game ever.
(If you reply to this review don't be toxic. If you can give me tips for any possible replays to make me love the game more I will gladly accept.)