"Hurr-durr how dare you refute my points, I'll take this as a personal attack". Chill.
Again, missing the entire point, just because 2 games are from the same franchise doesn't mean the tone of both games has to be exactly the same. Heck, they're not even sequels, they just so happen to share some elements as most JRPGs do.
Nice cherry picking. If you want to be that way, I could go and say that that only the very beginning of the game is the only part where the tone is more lighthearted but you do you. Now, will we judge the entire game because of a few "flaws" some people might find in the tone in the earlier parts of the game or should we judge it as a whole? The answer is quite obvious if you ask me. It's still subjective enough to not be considered a glaring issue for the game's overall quality.
Irrelevant, nothing wrong with the designs.
Except, nowhere in the game we see such things? Inb4 "M-muh generic hotspring scene" where you don't see absolutely
anything in the slightest. Furthermore completely misses the point, due to cultural differences, that those kind of places are made for
trust and bonding between friends, coworkers and the like not for sex appeal. The rest of the game doesn't have any *** shots or focus on boobies that the first game didn't have either, and yet, there's nothing bad about it if there were some.
I don't really know what you're talking about, since from Malos' fight to Mythra's awakening we have, Nia, Dromarch, Tora, Poppi, Morag and Brigid all introduced and given backstories and development, alongside foreshadowing of Pyra's true power origins as we progressively learn what exactly are the Blade race. Comparatively, as you stated, nothing happens between mechon attack and prison island, which takes anywhere from 10-30 hours. Why should anyone have to slog through that?
Wait! Hold on, except all you just said are blatant lies sugarcoated and buzzwords like development and backstories without a single piece of evidence to back it up to add "depth" to your argument with some minor events like I just did (if it wasn't obvious enough). Excuse me, in what world did we get backstories or character development for Sharla, Melia, Riki as early as prison island, did you even play the game?
All Xenoblade games dwindle between realism and anime features, as you can tell it doesn't look neither like games like the witcher nor Tales of, and yes, this includes XC2.
Now you're literally comparing two completely unrelated stories with one another, claiming one is better than the other because it appeals to a wider more mainstream audience and bashing one because it's tropey while completely ignoring and giving more weight to its flaws than its strengths (again, as you did with Xenoblade which tells me that's how you usually discuss about topics) and you actually feel proud about that whole sentence. Ok then.
Why don't you just say you dislike japanese looking games from japanese companies and we can end this nonsense you're spouting quicker? Which strikes me as odd since you have Sora of all people as your avatar, one of the most weeb looking japanese games conceived.
