How does this look so kino when literally everything about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was unbearably cringe?

Shulk is less of a blatant self insert fantasy twink faggot.

It also helps that his sword is a fucking sword and not two waifus slobbering over his dick.

2 was just a bad game with 4 acts worth of uninteresting writing and kinda bad characters. it picks up towards the end, but the starting 30 hours or so are so bad that i cannot recommend anyone play it in good conscience

Rex is the biggest simp alive. He'd die for Pyra five minutes after meeting her. Technically he already did.

And when the story gets interesting, the level design becomes a corridor instead.

That's why he's not such a blatant self insert power fantasy.

>The amount of fights that you win but job in the cutscene anyway
At least in Xenoblade 1 there weren't as many and you actually lost in gameplay.

The artstyle still shits on the world and original artstyle. There's something very strange about seeing these perfectly clean and cel shaded characters against such detailed and dirty looking backdrops. I think the ugliness of the Wii version fit it more.

Coming from last thread

>you only take 80% of Jin's life
I thought you can take 100% of his life if you managed to abuse the Chain Combo attack system

It's been a common practice in jrpgs for ages. I think it looks fine.

this, that shit in 2 completely took me out of it when 1 actually had encounters and cutscenes that had the party legitimately almost get their shit kicked in

The only fanservice in XBC2 is the hot spring cutscene and Poppi (basically), calm the fuck down.

In XBC you couldn't even hurt the bosses half the time, it let you feel how frustrated the characters would be in the situation.

Xenoblade 2 was pure kino soul, everyone who played know this. Please keep your MUH NADO

>tfw watching cutscenes from XBC2 right now
I agree user.

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Because Rex's character design is pizzacutter tier

To each their own I guess, I always thought the original had an artstyle more akin to something like Shadow of the Colossus which might explain why I don't like the new one as much.

Xenoblade 2 had some bad artstyle mismatching too, you could tell which characters were designed from Tetsuya Nomura because instead of trying to make them look like the rest of the characters they tried to make them look like his artstyle which just made them stick out like a sore thumb.

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>infighting

just be happy :)

>more akin to something like Shadow of the Colossus which might explain why I don't like the new one as much.
I do agree with you, but I feel like this isn't one of those cases.
The original SoTC didn't need incredibly variable expressions and the remake sought to fix something that wasn't broken. The characters in the remaster feel just right being more expressive. There are some people that feel like the original textures are bad, but I disagree, although I do feel like the DE properly makes the characters more likable by making them accurately show what they are feeling.

if they were going for that they failed miserably. I'd prefer something more realistic, but that would take too much money, and this is just easier to market to neckbeards, so it's the path they took.

I like this though, I hope Monolith Soft returns to the idea of having different artists design characters. You make a valid point, but I don't see it exactly as a negative.

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they should've gone with this artstyle.

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>mfw birth of a universe

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Dinner Dinner

XC2's story was shit throughout. XC1's story only went to shit after Prison Island.

>Aaaaaaaaaaaaariyah!

uh huh, uh huh, yeah sure.

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They hired a hentai artist and the writer wanted to do a children's anime.
That's why there was shitty SoL scenes, dumb jokes, and lack of blood.

I love how XC2oomers claim only Shulkfags start shit, and then you claim post like these are just falseflaggers.

Enjoy XC1DE stringing up your threads.

XC2's story is shit then turns kino at Morytha
XC1's story is kino then turns shit at Prison Island

It's also bad because Nomura actually knows how to draw characters that look like people, and not noseless lipless moeblobs, so you see 10/10 character design next to 2/10s, and the 2/10s are the main fucking characters.

>Kino
Stopped reading there, anyone that unironically uses this buzzword is underage.

This is some Teen Titans Go level of kikery. Holy shit.. they ruined my mans design lmfao.

Are all the XC2 fags asleep? Thread yesterday was filled with mostly people saying that XC2 > XC1 in every way. There is dangerous amount of XC2 criticism going on in this thread for when they wake up.

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Didn't you get banned yesterday?

>prison island
which time?

Are we playing the boogeyman game now? Why do you guys always assume everyone is the same person? No other fanbase does this.

Yeah but Nomura's designs were easily the best in the game. Say what you will about him as a director but he's a good character designer.

Hate how people like op keep trying to start fanbase wars for (yous). Every xeno game has fanservice and shit.

for 2? yeah, it's funny it has art by Yasuomi Umetsu, who directed a OVA with tons of violence and graphic rape scenes.

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>Morytha
You mean Temperantia
>Prison Island
You mean Sword Valley

You say that as if prison island didn't happen.

It's not an inherently bad idea, but next time tell artists to vary the designs. It's like you're having a party and don't specify what everyone should bring, and you wind up with 40 bowls of potato salad.

Thank god they updated the character models. The jpg pictures plastered on top of the character models in the original version was so bad.

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>sharla: "um, shulk, honey, what are you doing?"
>shulk: "oh, uh, you know, just.... just striking cool poses with my monado and... and stuff."
>sharla: "........"

>Every xeno game has fanservice and shit
Why is it so hard for you to understand that having fanservice isn't why people are so against Xenoblade 2? It's excessive fanservice is only a part of why people are turned off to it, the main characters being cliche, the more modern generic anime artstyle, the writing having lolsorandum moments one moment, and serious death scenes the next.

It's certainly not just because of the waifubait and fanservice, Persona also does it, and P5 is one of the most popular JRPG of the generation, but it has a unique style, something XC2 lacks. You got a massive first impression from a game like Persona 5, regardless of it's later quality, when you start XC2, you have to make it though hours of scenes where literally nothing happens, and stuff like "Rex-kun touch my boobies", and even after all that, the game up until the very end refuses to let you enjoy it, it acts like an overprotective mother, constantly reminding you to play the game the right way through tutorials and roadblocks, if you legit think that people are only upset about the fanservice in a subpar follow up to XC1, a game that hit everything out of the park, you're not being honest with yourself and are blinded by your own bias.

There's a XC2 thread open right now, please go there.

>Supposed to be the happy big sister type
>Is Mythra's emotional shield. All the bad things that happened in the game aimed at Mythra actually touched Pyra instead
>Actually wants to go to Elysium to ask her father to end her life
>Only seen as the big happy big sister type by people that never played her game

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And Mythra is a horrible person that would be considered a villain in most games, but because she's waifubait the game treats her as a hero.

Having a tragic backstory doesn't make up for a character being bland and boring 99% of the time.

Pyra has no personality
She and Rex are boring trash characters
Mythra is great in Torna, pretty much pointless in the main game
Rest of the xb2 gang are cool though.

>the collectors edition includes a vinyl disc with the soundtrack

Damnit. I told myself i wouldn't buy any more Collector editions, but this will be the last.

>Liking both Xenoblade Chronicles games and able to appreciate the different positive aspects of them while seeing the negatives
Feels good, bros

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Based

Why are Xeno threads on Yas Forums such absolute garbage?

>Big artbook and a cool vinyl
Well worth the £90, despite me owning a Switch with CFW, gotta support Monolith

>Both
You gotta play X dude, it's a wonderfully flawed game

Well aren't we a grumpy Gus?
I think you meant to say go back to r eddit.

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That's fine, it's a shame the grand majority of XC2fags think it's the 2nd coming of JRPGs, I'm sorry you get put in the same boat as them.

>not acknowledging X's existence

good.