u/KangarooRIOT

How on earth can this game be this big in scope and be so gorgeous ? And technically be a wiiU game!? I am not a graphics guy. I couldn’t care less. However, this is gorgeous in the most artistic way I can describe.

I don’t need a hyper realistic game or 400 FPS or whatever.

This is amazing and gorgeous because every piece of it gels together so perfect.

The music, the totally different areas teeming with their own creatures and ecosystems, the color contrast and … the scale! The game makes me feel big and small at the same time lol.

XCX is an honest to god instrumental joy in my life right now 😁

Anyway… time to unpause and keep finding more FN Sites to place data probes !!

That’s all. I am just now doing the missions to get my Skell. I am 47h in (maybe 20% if that is idle time?) and I absolutely freaking love this game. I’ve played Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3 and I like 2 the most. Though all are masterpieces. But, X may be becoming my perfect game. It mixes all of the best parts of XC main series and all of what I loved about Phantasy Star Online. I even think and play XCX like an MMO most times. I log in do whatever quest I see and just wander around because I just love the world and scale and monsters and just running over random loot. The game is MASSIVE. Going to NLA city district and it feeling and reminding me of GTA or True Crimes (… without the GTA or crime 😂) is just so epic and fun to me.

I love the planet, music, aliens/ monsters, the classic and engaging Xenoblade combat system, and lore. I love there’s an entire division just for exploring. And of course that’s what I chose. And I just learned that I can customize the barracks ! I changed the colors and added cool stuff to make it mine!

I even love watching the intro cinematic on the title screen because it reminds me of my favorite book of all time - Enders Game - which shows the starting lore of the game!

In fact the ONLY THING I wish the game had that XC2 has is an ability to rewatch the cinematic in order again. Mostly because I AM taking my sweet time and even though X has far less story and narrative - I wish I could rewatch them at times and adding that feature would be so easy to do.

TLDR - I just freaking love this game so freaking much and it makes me happy. I’m 47h in and just now doing my skell proficiency exams. I’m loving it! That’s all 😁.