Mar 2024 Comment: This game is near peak to me, but around this year I've noticed that its not as perfect as I originally thought. The story while is my favorite, but unfortunately lacks in giving more substance to the side characters, while this is redeemed a bit for future connected, Fiora is a bit basic and Sharla had a lot of potential to delve more into her arc of how she lost her whole colony and her fiancé, but the game instead opts to focus on Shulk. Shulk is my favorite protagonist of all time, that isnt a bad thing, but this takes away from the game being perfect as it fully dosent flesh out everything. The game has bad frame drops at times but not as bad as 2's. The combat is objectively dated, but yet this makes me love it even more. Outside of some stat changes, they kept the moves the same as it did in the original , really makes me feel like im playing a remastered wii game and thats perfect, I like how different the combat feels compared to 2 and while I think the new games are better, I like its unique taste. The remixes for Definitive Edition are bless and overall the game is much better in many ways. They censored Dunban's blood spitting scene and Shulk having very bright anime hair thats full on yellow now is a small nitpick negative, but everything else is literally perfect to me. Overall my thoughts about XC1 are still the same. I love its world, its setting, not only is it fun to explore, but also play on and its good for story reasons too. I will always be biased toward this game as its undoubtedly my favorite, I think objectively its like a 4 or 4.5, but its a 5 in my eyes, and thats all that matters to me. I love its story, music, combat, exploration, I could gush for hours but why would I? I wont forget it so no need writing it all down.