These giant battle suits enhance your ability to reach hard to get to places and their vehicle transformations speed you even faster on your way. One of the biggest selling points for many are the game's mechs, called Skells in the Western version. Then, eventually, you gain control of giant robots and a whole new range of movement opens up the world even more. While precision jumping takes some practice and a little manipulation of the camera distance, it is very satisfying to bound gazelle-like across the gap in a mountain or dive fearlessly off the top of a cliff that soars hundreds of feet into the air. Characters can leap great distances, as if Mira were a low gravity planet. There's even an auto-run option that can make those long exploratory swims into the ocean easier to bare. Your characters can run at a sprightly clip and swim quickly. Of course, how you explore is as important as what you explore, and this too feels just right. Mira is a majestic place without boundaries keeping you from going to whatever point you can see (and the incredible draw distance allows you to see very far indeed), whether it means swimming across an ocean or leaping to the highest peak of a mountain. The landscapes are fantastic yet maintain a very real, very grounded feel. What kind of ecosystem could create the eerie elegance of Sylvalum? What are the massive structures in Oblivia? Who lived in the monolithic ruins of Cauldros? Even NLA, the lively city that crash landed on Mira offers many an interesting nook and cranny. The environments themselves evoke story telling.
The creativity of the environments and the alien animals that populate this world is a treat for the imagination. It is vast, beautiful, dangerous, intriguing, exciting, and just fun to run around in. Mira provides the best sightseeing trip you could want. Thankfully, when Monolith Soft set out to create this massive world where the player can truly travel to any point they can see, they succeeded in spades. Plot-wise, you are a pioneering refugee stranded on an alien planet, and learning about that planet is the primary thing you do in this game. However, the Story section of the critique does have spoilers so fair warning.Įxploration is central to the XenoX experience.
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Most of this critique is spoiler free and safe reading for those who have yet to play the game, and I highly recommend playing this game. That said, I have quite a few criticisms of the game as well, especially in regards to the story.
My fascination with XenoX approached obsession for a good while and it is easily on the top tier of my all time favorite games. December 4th finally arrived, and I played almost nothing but this game for the next 2 months, finishing the final chapter at 230 hours and continuing on afterward for 300 plus.
While I was disappointed since I loved the story of the first Xenoblade, it didn't really do much to dampen my desire to get a hold of this game, and so I counted down the days to the US release. It was a tempered anticipation – I followed the reactions to the Japanese release and thus knew about the MMORPG flavor and less focus on story. In the year 2015 I anticipated no game as much as Xenoblade Chronicles X.
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