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The only Xeno game I have not completed (because WiiU). Now I can finally dig into it this week.

Confession time: I never finished this game on the WiiU either. I made it up to chapter 4 or 5 (I can't exactly recall, it was several years ago) and bailed because the leveling was too slow, and the high level enemies kept wrecking me.

In fact, here's a LTTP thread I made about the game when I played it in 2019:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/lttp-xenoblade-chronicles-x.1507051/

This time though, I'm definitely in it for the long haul.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Confession time: I never finished this game on the WiiU either. I made it up to chapter 4 or 5 (I can't exactly recall, it was several years ago) and bailed because the leveling was too slow, and the high level enemies kept wrecking me.

In fact, here's a LTTP thread I made about the game when I played it in 2019:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/lttp-xenoblade-chronicles-x.1507051/

This time though, I'm definitely in it for the long haul.

I dipped out too when I tried it in 2015. I was bummed that character and story elements had taken a back seat to multiplayer grindy loot stuff. I loved how each character fit their class perfectly in Xenoblade 1, like Reyn looked and acted like a living tank, and Shulk was a skinny lil tech boi with a magic future seeing sword, turning him into a glass cannon in gameplay. The classes seemed so generic to me in XCX with all humanoid character models fitting into every class, and you couldn't even play as a Nopon! I wanted a Nopon to pilot a mech so badly.

But when I went back to the game in 2019 I really loved it since I just let the game be its own weird self. One thing that might help new players considering picking it up is to not to think of your player character or Elma or anyone else as the main character. Instead the planet Mira is the main character, and the game is about exploring Mira and finding all the cool stuff on it. If people approach the game with that mindset and understand it's not as character focused as other xenoblades, and they like making crazy builds to destroy giant dinosaur monsters, then it won't be hard for them to fall in love with the weirdest xenoblade. Plus there's some new story content that might end up being a big deal too.