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As I began wading into Xenoblade Chronicles – perhaps the finest RPG ever to be released for Nintendo Wii, and now available for New Nintendo 3DS – for a second time in three years, I immediately began to remember what I liked so much about the original.
When it was first released, Monolith Soft’s epic RPG represented a long overdue – and smashingly successful – merging of Japanese RPG style with Western RPG sensibilities. It had colourful characters and clothes, an incredibly complex combat system, massive open environments, and seemingly limitless quests. Basically, it’s what you’d get if the folks at Square Enix teamed up with designers at Bethesda Softworks.
Alex S. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "I want to take yet another opportunity to talk about why I love Xenoblade so much. And this time, I’m focusing on the original protagonist. Here’s why I think Shulk is one of Nintendo’s best characters."
Half-Glass Gaming: "Production of the 3DS has been discontinued as of September of 2020, but there’s definitely an argument to be made for adopting the system in 2021, especially if you just really like playing awesome video games."
Xenoblade is Better Than Final Fantasy - While Final Fantasy has a storied history, Xenoblade, as a franchise, has surpased it in in quality over the years.
Xenoblade 1 and xenoblade 2 had better quality than ff13 and its sequels as well as ff15. Lol. Such rubbish. Xenoblade 2 especially is utter rubbish with bad graphics and performance issues
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So yeah, biased fanboy trash.
Agreed. Probably the worst graphics I have ever seen and the 2nd game is a cringy fan service fest. Don't get me started on the combat and English voice acting.
Not the classics though. In this and the previous generation, yes unless ff7r is a great game.
They are two wildly different experiences. Those that say that Xenoblade is better are just fanboys who want to excessively praise something that is already great (in this case, Xenoblade).
Those that say that it is not even close are just haters that don't want to admit how good the Xenoblade games are. Probably because it is a Nintendo owned IP.
Fact is, classic FF and Xenoblade are both great RPGs, but play totally different. You will find some that like both, and others that prefer one over the other. To claim either excessive praise or pointless downplay is just foolish in both cases TBH.
The series started to chug for me when 13 came out, and 14 was a big disappointment to me. But even FF12 is still a great game and most of the previous games were stellar. FF might not be what it once was, but few series stack up against it, much less surpass it. I can't really say the Xenoblade is one of those.
Psht! So many RPGs are better than FF!
Even FFVII, which was a good game, isn't better than many other RPGs
I've played them all. As for the recent ones, Xenoblade Chronicles has an impressive world, story, and characters, but some of the worst side quests. Wasn't fond of the battle engine. XC2 was just bad imo. X was pretty good, but not as good as the original. The original could be described as better than some of the worst FF games, but the series as a whole? Not a chance.
Of course, opinions are opinions.
Xenoblade 2 is not even on the same level of FF 12. LOL nice try tho.
Replies(1)The FF IP needs to be concluded and a new IP needs to replace it.
Oh... and JRPGs are overrated and most often are cliched and seriously suck!
