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Xenoblade Chronicles - *Full Game Review*

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« on: April 10, 2012, 08:53:50 pm »

Hey guys! So I saw the thread about Xenoblade Chronicles and that a lot of you guys wanted a short review of the game so seeing as I have had this game for about a little more than a year I thought i might as well do a full game review for anyone who is deciding whether or not to buy this game.

Here are the topics I will discuss in this review ( in order ) :
Storyline
Gameplay
Environment/World
Graphics
Side-Quests/Replayability
Character Customization
Sounds/Music
Dialogue/Voice Overs


Storyline

          The story behind Xenoblade Chronicles although not necessarily the freshest idea has many unique twists and turns that keep it interesting, and that paired along with the vast beautiful world and amazing battle system I can assure you if you enjoy playing RPG's this is a game you will definitely want to buy.
          The game starts off explaining how the in-game world came to be, taking some ideas from Japanese Shinto mythology it takes you through a quick summary of the battle between two giant titans, the Bionus and Mechonus, who after ages of fighting became interlocked by their swords into just corpses. Their giant bodies are the world that you and everyone else in the game has learned to call home.
          Yes there is one boy who is the worlds only hope, yes there is an all-powerful weapon that only he can wield and must be used to save the world, and yes there is an enemy race that you must defeat but aside from this many parts of the story are unique. The game centers around the age-old conflict between the Humans and Mechons, a machine-like drone race that are just evil, just evil to the core and want to destroy all humans. A few decades before the game actually takes place the Humans along with a man, Dunban,  who could wield the magical all powerful weapon which you will come to know as the Monado forced the Mechon to retreat and now they have for some reason returned. Unfortunately that man is injured now and the main character, Shulk, finds out that for some reason he is able to wield the Monado, binding him to the duty of defeating the Mechon once again. You travel the expansive world with your best friend Reyn and the love interest of the game Fiora meeting new people along the way but I don't want to give away too much.

Gameplay

          For those who have played WoW, GW, or mostly any other MMORPG it does play very much like an MMORPG. Like most RPG's it uses a town system, each of which is seperated by some terrain and monsters, one great feature of this is the use of fast travel. Certain parts of the world like towns and specific parts in the town are added to your map once you have discovered it, you can then go into the world map and basically teleport there which saves the long runtimes although I often times find myself just running anyways due to the incredible landscapes of this game ( crazy right? ). While running around you often times find small little glowing items which you simply run over to pick up. With these items you can sell them for a buncha money or you can use certain ones to create rune-type things which I will mention more in Customization.
          The battle system I think is one of the best features of this game, it employs the use of autoattacking fights, meaning that you have full control of your player when you are in combat, movement, jumping, what spells you wanna cast and when which is only limited by the cooldown of the spells all while your character is constantly using a basic autoattack. Spells in this game are ONLY limited by cooldowns, meaning unlike other RPG's instead of having a limited source of mana or energy to cast spells you only have to wait for the cooldown. Other cool features of the battle system include the fact that it does not go into a different scene when you fight but instead you fight in the same world that you run around in. Something I think they did really well was not having forced battles all over the place besides the main story ones but instead there are monsters scattered all over and you can choose whether or not to aggro. Some monsters gain aggro more easily while others kinda just sit around minding their own business. A lot of strategy was added into the battle system of this game, the main character Shulk can switch between two weapon modes as he has the all powerful Monado. When fighting regular monsters you can usually just keep it in the regular sword-like mode but when fighting mechon you have to switch it to some crazyass mode which is the only way to really do significant damage to them. Along with that certain moves will cause different ailments to the enemy which can then be proceeded by an intelligent attack to do more damage. For example one of Shulks moves has a chance of knocking over the enemy, while knocked over your teammate Reyn can use a skill that has a chance of stunning, a greater chance if they are knocked down. Stuff like that that just adds a different dimension to the power. Finally, in longer battles you can use Chain Attacks which is a chain of a few attacks from each member of your team which you choose. They are extremely helpful against bosses, for example you could attack the boss with reyn and shulk and then with fiora heal the team so you don't die. Obviously more complex chain attacks become more prevalent as you go through the game.
          One thing I really enjoyed about this game is that scattered throughout the world are rare elite bosses, some only come out at certain times, some randomely, some are always there. They go around with a bunch of their thugs and they do put up a good fight and usually have nice drops. It's fun to sometimes just go off and try and find some to kill. Come to think of it probably 3/4 of the time I spent on this game was just exploring the world, there are so many awesome environments and landscapes you won't even remember you are on wii.


*Sorry, this is taking longer than i thought but I'm sure some of you are pretty eager to buy this game so I will just keep updating it.*
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2012, 11:19:07 pm »

ill get it when its ...30 .....eh. 20 or less  Smiley seems kool. but rpgs are a drain of time!
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2012, 05:36:40 pm »

Where is part 2? lol Tongue

Anyways I'll save skeleton the trouble..... 10/10

This game is the best jrpg I've played in a long time including Pokemon.
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2012, 08:17:41 pm »

This game will drain time. My brother just beat this game a few days ago.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2012, 09:05:55 pm »

Yeah it require lots of time, but it's so worth it if u have the time. I played a little bit every now and then and barely passed like two weeks ago lol
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