Why does Xenoblade 2 divide Yas Forums so much?

I mean it makes more sense to play the best game in a series first. It's why Persona 5 is the best introduction to the series and then you play 3 and then 4

I always say how XC1 is for people who love JRPGs while XC2 is for people who really love anime.

Because it used to be a good game that was anime but not too much. Now they turned it into incredibly over the top animeshit with tons of cheap fapbait "blades" letting the game look like animegame shovelware #9834754398. Which is frustrating because its still a nice game that didnt need that pandering. At least the Torna DLC mora than made up for it. Lora was a likable character with a good design, the party was great and the gameplay was much better than the clusterfuck that was Xenoblade 2.

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He said it in the same post. Why would you play the lowest ranking one first and be potentially turned off by the series? He doesn't want people to think that Xenoblade is just another generic shonnen waifu gacha collecting series

Xenoblade 1 is actually the one that almost turned me off from the franchise due to its boring MMO hotbar gameplay.

>story is the weakest
I'll give you the generic part, but the game game with the weakest story is by far XBX