#11266633, By famous_roy Xenoblade Chronicles X

famous_roy 28 Dec 2015 23:15:22 4,126 posts
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I read the online manual, poked around for info and tips on here and reddit, played about 8 hours, and just feeling a whole heap of nope.

On paper this game is everything I love. I was a huge FFXII fan, the landscapes are beyond gorgeous and the battle system is kind of intriguing, but the pacing and the structure... YEESH!

I've more or less given up having to take on yet another mechanic, the probe changing garbage, have to go back and forth to some knobhead in shades called Katie, running through crystals to seem to amount to nothing. Finding 'treasure' to mash X against that produce rewards I have to go right up to the TV to see only to discover it's 200 credits or something.

Is there something I'm missing? Am I still working through the 'hump'? I know people love it, and it clearly has had a lot of effort put into it, but it just feels like a mess of mechanics and terrible UI, the devs needed to focus so badly.