This review contains spoilers
pros:
-insanely good combat
-character designs and environments on dahna are fantastic
-the first half of the story on dahna is fantastic and makes you care about most characters to a certain extent
-calaglia, cyslodia, menancia, and pelegion are great regions with some pretty good storylines.
-early boss fights and lord boss fight were all very very good
cons:
-the story of the game in the second half falls of a cliff and feels like less effort was put in to flesh out the world and rena and lenegis
-the story as a whole is very much the same as xenoblade chronicles 1 but with its own twist and the main cast being pretty bland characters by the second half
-the enemy variety is pretty trash , you fight the same enemies but with a nice call of duty gun skin on them in the later stages of the game
-instance battles with these mobs are also a slog by the end of the game because it just boils down to getting a long combo then doing the finisher repeatedly
-mahag saar story was rushed and felt like it was trying very hard to force an emotional reaction to killing off the resistance group in the city even though they were built up to hate them to begin with
-rinwell is a bland character
-game needed to be longer to flesh out rena as a world better
-game story in general felt a little rushed in the first half then in the second half was definetly rushed and overall hurt the games emotional attachment to care about anything thats happening because its not fleshing out whats happening well enough for me to care or to make me feel like I need to value whats going on.
-some boss fight were insanely lazy and were just bad in the second half of the game, a lot of these boss fights just boiled down to hitting the core of the enemy until it broke or using alphen limit to stun them repeatedly basically cheesing them.
-also the AI is turbo trash
-the music was also very limited and got repetitive fast, the battle theme you heard fighting lvl 1 moth would be the same as fighting a lvl 100 gigantimax goliath terraforming giga moth
-insanely good combat
-character designs and environments on dahna are fantastic
-the first half of the story on dahna is fantastic and makes you care about most characters to a certain extent
-calaglia, cyslodia, menancia, and pelegion are great regions with some pretty good storylines.
-early boss fights and lord boss fight were all very very good
cons:
-the story of the game in the second half falls of a cliff and feels like less effort was put in to flesh out the world and rena and lenegis
-the story as a whole is very much the same as xenoblade chronicles 1 but with its own twist and the main cast being pretty bland characters by the second half
-the enemy variety is pretty trash , you fight the same enemies but with a nice call of duty gun skin on them in the later stages of the game
-instance battles with these mobs are also a slog by the end of the game because it just boils down to getting a long combo then doing the finisher repeatedly
-mahag saar story was rushed and felt like it was trying very hard to force an emotional reaction to killing off the resistance group in the city even though they were built up to hate them to begin with
-rinwell is a bland character
-game needed to be longer to flesh out rena as a world better
-game story in general felt a little rushed in the first half then in the second half was definetly rushed and overall hurt the games emotional attachment to care about anything thats happening because its not fleshing out whats happening well enough for me to care or to make me feel like I need to value whats going on.
-some boss fight were insanely lazy and were just bad in the second half of the game, a lot of these boss fights just boiled down to hitting the core of the enemy until it broke or using alphen limit to stun them repeatedly basically cheesing them.
-also the AI is turbo trash
-the music was also very limited and got repetitive fast, the battle theme you heard fighting lvl 1 moth would be the same as fighting a lvl 100 gigantimax goliath terraforming giga moth