Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a worthy sequel to the first one, i won't say it's better because this game has lots of glaring issues. First, on a technical standpoint the game is just not optimized, the dynamic resolution is all over the place and you'd get a blurry low resolution screen even on docked mode and i can confidently says that this is a case of unoptimized development of the game because torna (the dlc of this game which came later) looks miles better than the main game. Second, from gameplay perspective there are two major issues that i can't stand, one is the walking speed on battle, basically when you draw your weapons in combat your character becomes super slow and it's baffling because you are required to walk around and change position based on your attack types. The second major issue is the blades themselves, Torna's gameplay is so good that it makes the base game combat bad, in main game blades only serves as a finisher/specials and rent their weapon to the character and it's so underwhelming and annoying to just see them stand still and do nothing. Lastly, screw field skills progression blocker.