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I might get it but I got my hands full with Hollow Knight and Okami.
You ever been in that situation where it's raining but the skies are clear?I hear thunder but there's no clouds. What the ****?
In my country there's an old joke/proverb that goes "if it rains when the sun is out,, it means a witch is getting married."
**** Gruntilda finally got laid
Isn't her game over look what she used to look like? Or am I misinterpretting the story of Banjo?
That’s how she looks after stealing Tooty’s beauty.
Amongst other things.
Post Abyssal team, my dude.
Usually witches in kid stuff try to steal youth so that's what I was thinking of, my bad
Huh. Sounds like the censored version of a Succubus then.
I have literally never heard of this dude before.
I heard about that too. Though I thought that was only from Puerto Rico.
It's mostly this specific video that's well-known.
That's because I am from Puerto Rico.
Advance Wars obv.I wonder what this could be...
I can't believe blurry image is finally getting into smash!I wonder what this could be...
a vita case?I wonder what this could be...
I see the FE logo but I have no idea what I'm actually supposed to be looking at.I wonder what this could be...
Closest description yet, lol.
Yeah, PBR did keep their actual sizes in mind based on their Pokedex information.
Its still too late, natz. Why would you ask me this?
Means I hope people disabled DNS as usual.
And that being?
Wii Us with homebrew about to get BTFO'd.
Basically, modding games or hacking the system in general will be harder if you have the new update. So if you use custom content in games like Smash 4 or Mario Kart 8 you would have to prevent updates, or at least wait until wii u modders find an alternative.
Dang bruh it's essentially a dead console why are they gonna keep doing stuff to it.
Cause they're kinda *****.
Well there's more to it than that.
Why do people cremate dead people and animals?
I've now managed to write up my full thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
As many people know, I am a very big fan of the original Xenoblade Chronicles. It’s one of my favorite games of all time, if not my absolute favorite, so naturally, when they announced Xenoblade Chronicles 2, I was quite excited. Now that I’ve actually beaten the game, I can say that I was not disappointed.
While I don’t think that the story is quite as good as that of the first game, I still really enjoyed the plot of the game. In particular, the later plot twists of the game manage to be quite interesting, but I won’t get into spoilers until a bit later here.
One area that I feel sort of mixed on is the character designs. When it comes to the main characters, on one hand, I’m not a huge fan of Rex or Pyra’s designs. On the other hand, I like almost all of the other designs of the major characters, especially Morag, Zeke, Vandham, Nia, and the Torna characters. I do feel like the rare blade designs can be kind of hit-or-miss, though. On one hand, there are a lot of designs that I think are really cool, like Wulfric, Percival, and Adenine, but there are also a fair number of designs that I’m not a huge fan of.
As for the characters themselves, while I don’t think I like the cast quite as much as I like the first games cast, I still ended up quite enjoying them. I particularly liked Morag, Zeke, and Nia, with both Jin and Malos being quite memorable antagonists.
Of course, since it’s Xenoblade, the soundtrack is quite amazing. I do find it a bit hard to narrow down my absolute favorite tracks in the game, a few of my favorites are The Empire of Mor Ardain, You Will Recall Our Names, Death Match with Torna, Drifting Soul, and Still, Move Forward! The world of this game was also really cool. I think my favorites might have been Mor Ardain and Uraya.
Onto the gameplay itself, I have quite a lot of things to talk about.
To start off, I’m not a huge fan of how the movement of the game is in battle. I don’t like that you have to stand still in order to auto attack, as well as how slow your movement speed is in battle, compared to how it was in the original and X. It does feel like it manages to make the combat feel slower than it needs to be. Healing is something that I’m kind of mixed on as well. Namely, the fact the HP potions spawn all over where you’re fighting. Granted, I feel it isn’t too big of a problem in most regular fights, and there are arts that heal on hit and some that just heal (I think they heal more but I’m not so sure), but in certain boss fights, since you also move slower than you did in previous games, it can be quite annoying.
Aside from that stuff though, I don’t really have many other problems with the battle system. Really, the only other thing that I don’t like about it is something that I don’t really understand, and that’s that sometimes when I’m playing as a tank character, they don’t seem to be drawing the aggro properly, and instead Nia gets targeted. It’s something that I don’t really know the cause for, but I guess there’s probably a way to avoid it.
As for what I enjoy about the battle system, there is quite a lot. In general, I really liked the amount of depth the combat had, with auto attacks leading into drver arts, which lead into blade specials, which lead into blade combos, which fill up the party gauge and lead to chain attacks. Your blade combos do feel a little bit limited early on (for most of chapters 3 and 4 I just stuck with Water → Earth → Wind), but once you start to gain access to more blades and more party members, you get a lot more options for more and more different blade combos.
I think I might also prefer the way that chain attacks work in this game. It feels like extending them is less luck-based, as long as you can build up elemental orbs before then. It’s also quite satisfying to overkill a boss and get better rewards from them (although, I only know that it gives you more experience. I don’t know the other benefits), especially if you can do a Full Burst.
Break → Topple → Launch → Smash → felt a little weird. Mostly because I didn’t have anyone who could use Launch for quite a while. I like it, and feels quite satisfying when you can pull off a full Driver combo, but I kind of prefer Break → Topple → Daze from the first game, since it was more consistent.
I’m not a huge fan of the whole blade summoning aspect. While I did manage to get quite a few blades I liked (Boreas was one of the first Blades I pulled, and I managed to get Percival a decent way through the game), I don’t like how you can possibly screw yourself over if you don’t get certain Blades on the “correct” character, as well as the fact that you need an Overdrive Protocol if that’s the case, and those are quite rare. Although, I only used an Overdrive Protocol twice in the game: Moving Percival from Zeke to Morag, and moving Adenine from Morag to Nia. Last time I checked, I had 8 Overdrive Protocols, and I might have received more before finishing up the game.
I did enjoy that Sidequests gave optional exp. It makes it easier to not be overleveled, sicne I never wanted to use all of my bonus exp. at once.
And now for nothing but spoilers:
Overall, I loved the game and it’s definitely one of my favorite Switch games, if not my absolute favorite game on the Switch. It was one of my most anticipated games of last year, so I was not disappointed. I don’t think I liked it quite as much as the original Xenoblade Chronicles, but it was an experience that I won’t forget any time soon.
- I kind of wish Vandham had been able to survive longer in the story or somehow come back. I still enjoyed his final moments though.
- I do wish Roc and Aegeon had gotten more screen time in the story, since they were pretty cool blades. I guess not everyone is going to use them though, even if I used them from the moment I got them all the way to the end of the game.
- Blade Nia seemed like a pretty cool blade to use, but since doing so not only has you lose your dedicated healer, but also reduces the amount of blades you can have out at a time, I never used her. I know she’s one of the best healers, but I kind of wish you could just have her engaged to herself, like how the Torna characters did in some of their fights.
- While I’m not a huge fan of his regular design, I love the redesign Rex gets from late chapter 7 onwards.
- I don’t know where Malos got his Monado from, but the fact that he has one at all is really cool.
Malos in Smash as a Shulk Echo when?- Pneuma is so overpowered lol. And that’s what I like about using her. She makes Full Bursts so much easier to achieve.
- Being able to actually control Jin for the beginning of chapter 8 was so cool. I just wish you could use him more. But I guess Torna: The Golden Country exists, so . . .
- I kind of wish we had actually gotten the names of the Titans that sank beneath the clouds. Hopefully we find that out in the Torna DLC.
- I love so much of what happens in the plot from Chapter 6 onwards on to the endgame. I mean, I quite liked the story before then, everything from that point onwards is just . . . wow.
- After Amalthus showed his true colors, part of me was expecting him to be the last fight in the game. I guess I was only one chapter off though.
- And now, I want to talk about the end of the game. As mentioned before, I absolutely love the second half of the story, but chapter 10 might just have been my favorite chapter in the entire game, as far as story goes. Finding about the origin of the world, learning about The Architect, learning about how both Alrest and the world from the first game are connected, etc. Given how both XC1 and XC2 are occurring at the same time, part of me is thinking that the world created at the end of the original Xenoblade Chronicles and the new Elysium created at the end of XC2 are one and the same. I could be wrong, but I want to think that’s the case. I also think that “Ontos” might actually be Alvis from the first game. But those are just theories.
