Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected is a side story taking place after the events of Xenoblade 1. It has some things going for it but it takes away a lot of the things that made the original with it.
Gonna really start by saying the soundtrack here is really good to the point it made the regular battles a little less tedious. The area itself was really cool to be around and most of the time, the same Xenoblade 1 combat is here albeit with some huge differences.
There are a fair bit of things that this "sequel/side story" didn't really do right. The combat here is the same but they removed chain attacks and skill trees for the ponspector system, I personally didn't mind ponspectors that much but I sorta did miss the active effect of choosing which attacks to do in a chain attack. The overall story here is literally just okay, don't expect anything groundbreaking like the first game. The level gaps here aren't the best thing here but from what I've seen, you can circumvent these for the most part with enemies giving decent experience and doing the ponspector quests (only side quests that give experience by the way) in which I managed to only clock in beating this at 6 hours. Even then the performance here really varies here if you're on portable mode, I had less than 20 fps in battles when I had all the ponspectors at certain moments here but some friends of mine mentioned there is almost no problem playing on TV mode so your experience varies here.
I can say I sorta dug this little story albeit it took some things away it could've kept. It really doesn't overstay its welcome either. I would say play this if you're either a huge Melia fan or want more Xenoblade 1 in which you'd probably already have the Definitive Edition this free story is included in.
Gonna really start by saying the soundtrack here is really good to the point it made the regular battles a little less tedious. The area itself was really cool to be around and most of the time, the same Xenoblade 1 combat is here albeit with some huge differences.
There are a fair bit of things that this "sequel/side story" didn't really do right. The combat here is the same but they removed chain attacks and skill trees for the ponspector system, I personally didn't mind ponspectors that much but I sorta did miss the active effect of choosing which attacks to do in a chain attack. The overall story here is literally just okay, don't expect anything groundbreaking like the first game. The level gaps here aren't the best thing here but from what I've seen, you can circumvent these for the most part with enemies giving decent experience and doing the ponspector quests (only side quests that give experience by the way) in which I managed to only clock in beating this at 6 hours. Even then the performance here really varies here if you're on portable mode, I had less than 20 fps in battles when I had all the ponspectors at certain moments here but some friends of mine mentioned there is almost no problem playing on TV mode so your experience varies here.
I can say I sorta dug this little story albeit it took some things away it could've kept. It really doesn't overstay its welcome either. I would say play this if you're either a huge Melia fan or want more Xenoblade 1 in which you'd probably already have the Definitive Edition this free story is included in.