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I'm so glad I didn't play this right after finishing the original game as it would just lead to a burn-out.
Thanks to that, the experience felt like a reminder of why I love XC1 and the overall franchise.
Gameplay : Bionis Shoulder is a treat to explore with its ridiculous amount of fetch quest as usual and the 12 nopon to search for. In terms of Nopon BE PREPARED I used to love them but they crossed the line of my tolerance there. The NPCs are even better written than in the original game so I didn't understand why they removed the sociogram. There's lil differences here and there but overall it's mostly XC1.
Story : I can already see how it's linked to XC3 but at the same time I didn't feel like I learned a lot. This game might just introduce the concept.
It focuses and develops the character of Melia a fan's favorite character. It achieves that pretty well, especially on developing her relationship with a certain character. Please DON'T SKIP the quiet moments especially those where Melia is in it they are as important as the story itself honesly.
Except from that, this DLC suceed to explain in a great way the different human reaction to crisis moment.
OST : Some new tracks from Yoko Shimomura that are still excellent. Honestly they fit so well that I wasn't sure if they weren't from the XC1.
CLOSING THOUGHT:
In every aspect future connected does suceed. So due to the quality I can't rate it lower than 4 stars.
But overall it just lacks of the 'grandiose' of the serie. I didn't cried, felt angry or had chills in every cinematics as I used to. The story is a bit lacking I wanted to learn more about Fog King.
I'm glad this existed and had fun time with it but I don't know if I will remember it for long...
I'm so glad I didn't play this right after finishing the original game as it would just lead to a burn-out.
Thanks to that, the experience felt like a reminder of why I love XC1 and the overall franchise.
Gameplay : Bionis Shoulder is a treat to explore with its ridiculous amount of fetch quest as usual and the 12 nopon to search for. In terms of Nopon BE PREPARED I used to love them but they crossed the line of my tolerance there. The NPCs are even better written than in the original game so I didn't understand why they removed the sociogram. There's lil differences here and there but overall it's mostly XC1.
Story : I can already see how it's linked to XC3 but at the same time I didn't feel like I learned a lot. This game might just introduce the concept.
It focuses and develops the character of Melia a fan's favorite character. It achieves that pretty well, especially on developing her relationship with a certain character. Please DON'T SKIP the quiet moments especially those where Melia is in it they are as important as the story itself honesly.
Except from that, this DLC suceed to explain in a great way the different human reaction to crisis moment.
OST : Some new tracks from Yoko Shimomura that are still excellent. Honestly they fit so well that I wasn't sure if they weren't from the XC1.
CLOSING THOUGHT:
In every aspect future connected does suceed. So due to the quality I can't rate it lower than 4 stars.
But overall it just lacks of the 'grandiose' of the serie. I didn't cried, felt angry or had chills in every cinematics as I used to. The story is a bit lacking I wanted to learn more about Fog King.
I'm glad this existed and had fun time with it but I don't know if I will remember it for long...