IIRC I finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 around the 100-hour mark. I killed the boss, did some perfunctory extra exploration and that was it. There was a lot I didn’t like that about that game (and a lot I did), but the biggest was having the map filled in for me already so there were no […]
Summertime blues~ Let’s round up all the games I’m playing/want to play/should be playing right now. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – It came, I’m playing it and I’m taking my sweeeeet time about it. I’m supposed to be doing [important spoiler mission] right now, but it can wait while I explore vast areas of nothingness. If […]
All right, I’ve gotten the exploration bug out of my system so it’s time to progress the story. Heh, you actually believe that? Nope, what happened was I explored and explored until Xenoblade Chronicles 3 itself intervened and stopped me with a Genshin-style “Let’s explore the area ahead later.” I laughed my head off at […]
It’s official: Complaining-On-My-Blog-no-Jutsu is the most powerful blogging technique known to man. Shortly after I noted in my last post that I wanted to explore more in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the game let go of the hard-driving reins and let me go basically wherever I wanted. Within reason, of course, since many areas are naturally […]
What it said in the title. The downside of playing a story-heavy RPG like Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is that you’re limited in where you can go and what you can do for much of the game. It isn’t a true “open world” for now, though I know for sure the whole world will open up […]