In battles you can’t change targets reliably or target different sections of a larger creature manually. Each art has a cooldown until it can be used again and this is where the MMO feeling starts to set in (more on that later). You have control of positioning and what arts – the standard fare of flashy moves and buffs – are used. Battles take place in real time with your character auto-attacking with their weapons on a set timer. Speaking of fighting, you’ll be doing a lot of it in Xenoblade Chronicles X. Sure, you can fight creatures but there are so many it’s not practical to fight all the time. That is really your primary goal when exploring. There is some strategy in placing probes correctly and getting bonuses for adjacent probes, but first you have to go out into the world and find where the probes need to be set up. In fact, you can really just let it sit there and you won’t be missing too much. You can mine, collect area data, and more but it isn’t too overwhelming. The main thing you will be doing on this screen is managing different probes. Exploring the world is definitely the main hook of the game for a long time as there are five unique continents to discover.įrontierNav takes place exclusively on the gamepad and functions as a giant map with a healthy amount of helpful information.
The game world is huge and actually feels realistically proportioned, which could have made traversal a chore, but the excellent fast travel system lets you quickly go to previously discovered locales. This is mainly because of the scale of everything. There are tons of breathtaking vistas that rival, and even surpass, those seen in games like Fallout 4 or the Witcher 3. Moving on to something more positive, Xenoblade Chronicles X is graphically a treat. The music ranges from great to questionable but it is mostly fine, if a bit goofy. Your avatar adds nothing to the plot or has any effect on anything. And after completing the game, I can say that there is absolutely no reason to have a created character. Sure, you can pick dialogue choices but they don’t matter and the implementation feels very dated. The character creator is very good but the character you make never talks and isn’t interesting. Mainly it is so disappointing because all the correct pieces are in place: the unique cast of characters, their individual motivations, the destruction of Earth, crashing on Mira, etc. This game is almost 60 hours long at its core, and it wastes most of its opportunities to tell a compelling story. The plot feels stretched out to the point of being paper thin most of the time.įirefly has a more satisfying ending and that show was cancelled. However, the whole story feels like the first act to something we won’t be getting the sequel to and it leaves most of this game completely empty. I will say the ending is interesting though. Later, a potential plot twist is obviously slapped in your face by one of the main characters several times, negating any impact. Unfortunately, the plot itself doesn’t pick up until 20-ish hours in when it finally introduces the main bad guy and a few other cool characters that probably should have been shown or talked about earlier. It’s a great start that is actually really compelling. Now the only goal is to find the lifehold were the survivors of humanity are all cryogenically frozen. Two years later your ship crash-lands on Mira. Several ships are sent out with the survivors, including one with your avatar aboard. The basic story set up of Monolith Soft’s latest is that a war between two alien races has caused all of humanity to evacuate Earth.
XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X PUGES IN PRIMORDIA SERIES
Xenoblade Chronicles X contains a series of odd choices that deface what could have been a huge step forward in JRPGs.
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