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Given the amount of traveling I'm going to be doing I'm seriously considering a new 3DS + Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS. That time frame is right around when I should be getting a paycheck that isn't tied to my rent so it's a legitimate possibility. I fall into the "never owned a Wii so I never played it" camp.

 

This totally happened btw

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I don't mind it, per se, but it does probably mean I will be overleveled for the actual story missions.  When I played the Wii version I didn't bother finishing all the quests and the first real boss of the game took me a couple of tries to beat.  This time around I didn't go fight him until I had already cleared out all the quests in Colony 9 and I curbstomped his ass.

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Yeah, this is for sure one of the rougher Switch titles I've played but the art direction really does pull through. At the same time, you can't help but wonder why Monolith is still on such a low-powered system when trying to pull off such detailed work. Sure they are pulling everything they can but on better hardware this would be one amazing looking game. So if you are a performance nut, this is kind of not the game for you.

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As far as I am aware and from what I've been told, none. There's no connection between the games besides themes and battle system. If you go from XC1 to XBX and to XC2 you should see a nice evolution of the battle system.

36 minutes ago, Mister Jack said:

I'm still stuck on the original on 3DS because it has a billion sidequests

Be prepared for that with XC2. You might be way overleveled after a romp through most of your sidequests.

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https://gematsu.com/2018/02/xenoblade-chronicles-2-version-1-3-0-update-launches-next-week-details

 

Details for NG+ which has spoilers. The most important change is that you can now skip the core crystal animations. In addition to the other animation skips, the grind is now WAAAAAAAAAAAAY less. Not sure if they have yet but now if only they do mass release of blades to cut the grind down even further. Also could use better item management (right now it's just huge lists).

 

I can almost call this a 9/10 game now.

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I wish they'd add a percentage for the probability of unlocking rare blades when you open a crystal. There's no microtransactions so there's really no reason to keep that a secret. I want to know if some characters have a better chance than others. There also needs to be an easier way to get your hands on overdrive protocols. They're absolutely essential items yet almost impossible to get.

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If you are planning to play the main game then I suggest to NOT watch this. Spoilers.

 

But yes, this fleshes out Torna and the people (and blades) who were there. We actually see a face. Also gives the best waifu of the game some characterization. All in what seems to be a sizeable standalone expansion.

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