Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Review - IGN

A satisfying RPG in which story, combat, and exploration all deliver.

[Neonridr]

glad to see this game is getting good scores. Really excited to try it out.

[ABizzel1]

Actually the scores are all over the place, and I'm a bit surprised. The majority of reviews seem to be a strong 8+, but there are several 7's floating around, and even a few 6's. But there are some 9's out there too for counter balance.

Seems like a solid game overall if you're into JRPGs, and a good close to the Switch for the holidays.

[Neonridr]

sounds like a normal game then.. :P

you like it or you don't.

[The 10th Rider]

They're not really allover the place. On Metacritic you've only got like eight at 91 or higher and nine at 79 or lower. There's thirty-seven at 80-90. That's actually pretty consistent.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Well I'm not really that surprised as their past game some sort of review this way but personally I would actually ignore that.

The xenosaga games all reviewed pretty poorly and they're literally some of the best Japanese RPG games released on the PlayStation 2.

So.... I don't know, I would actually disregard most of the reviews about this game especially if you like jrpgs, it's not like we have a flood of them coming of high-quality. They're seriously is only a very small handful of development Studios that are of great quality regarding jrpgs. Put it this way if you like this company's games, you do not even need a review to tell you to buy this lol

I remember reading so many bad reviews of xenosaga in me being a fan of Xenogears really wanted it but so many of the reviews completely slammed the game I didn't end up playing xenosaga until maybe 4 years after it released, turns out to one of my favorite jrpgs on the PlayStation 2, right next to Final Fantasy 10 ,Persona 3 and 4 and I ended up buying xenosaga 2 and 3.

Sometimes you can't just listen to someone else tell you about what you're going to like. Especially with jrpgs.

Are the stories convoluted? Sure probably can they get pretty terrible? They probably are going to get there but at the end of the day some of the best jrpgs sometimes have some of the crappiest stories lol

Till this day I couldn't tell you what the straight-faced what's xenosaga was really about, but the actual gameplay and how the narrative was told was done so well I could not recommend it enough.

It's why even I could tell you it had a terrible story and some clunky controls at times but still tell you to actually play it for yourself to decide.

If I listen to any of those reviews I would have never known just how great that series was.

[Servbot41]

As long as it's more like Xenoblade Chronicles and a lot less like Xenoblade X then I'm happy.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Well isn't this the sequel to Chronicles? Spiritually anyway.

I only played a little bit of Xenoblade X and I actually didn't really like it even though I was kind of excited for it when it originally came out.

I would actually hope for a sequel in the future to correct a lot of that.

[Neonridr]

X was an off-shoot set in the same universe. I didn't like it as much as XC1 because they were trying too hard. Game looked visually pretty good but the world was pretty barren at times.

[PlayableGamez-]

It's okay....
Sitting at 84 on Metacritic
92 for the first game.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

To be fair, there are a lot of reviews that are still pending for it that will affect the end score in the coming week or so.
Plus there's still user reviews to concern ourselves over, if we even want to be concerned instead of just enjoying the game for what it is regardless of scores.XD

[theeze0504]

It's a JRPG, some don't like it, some dont.

Metacritic means nothing, I hope you're not judging the game entirely based on metacritic.

It could be scored lower because it's the same type of game, doesn't mean it's bad, it could be that some outgrew turn based combat. 84 is apparently bad these days?

[deafdani]

@monkey

The pending reviews aren't going to affect the score drastically. It's going to add or substract one or two points, at most (and usually scores go down as more reviews are added, not up).

As for the user reviews, they're worthless.

[guywazeldatatt]

I think they gave the same to Xenoblade X, though a different reviewer. Regardless, I trust my own judgement before the likes of IGN and other major outlets.

[Neonridr]

well from the looks of the other sites out there, this game is getting great scores.

[WOLFofWALLSTREET]

Another reason to own a switch.

[Nintentional]

“Too many titans” -ign

[criticalkare]

Is this game difficult like the souls game?

[leoms]

waiting on edge to give this a 10/10

[3-4-5]

JRPG's are a bit more niche so I don't usually judge them as harshly because a lot of reviews are mainstream gamers who aren't actually good at games, they just like to talk about them and anything.

That being said, I think anything in the 8.0-9.0 is probably more close to realistic than anything 90+ or in the 70's.

Reviewers need to give a score based on how good that game is for what it is attempting to do, and then a separate personal score based on their own tastes/opinion.

Example: I can't stand heavy metal music......but I recognize the talent it takes to make said music. I couldn't review it like it was liquid drum n bass....I'd have to review it for what it is...heavy metal.