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[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

On 9/29/2018 at 1:21 PM, Haroon said:

If you find Mario Kart repetitive then it’s the same as Splatoon 2, they both have a few modes and the main fun is playing online, but even though you’re playing the same maps and modes it’s still fun because each match is different  

Octopath Traveler has a lot of hours too and it’s my game of the year so far  I haven’t played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but it’s got positive reviews and a lot of hours if @ZacharyMonster‘s play activity is anything to go by

heeeeeeeeey

its addicting 

[River 117,090]

1 hour ago, ZacharyMonster said:

heeeeeeeeey

its addicting 

Can you explain Xenoblade 2 for me please? how many hours? collectibles? post game? etc.

I saw the game play video, so from what I understood, it's an open world, like Zelda and you walk and doing stuff, but then the battle mode was messy, I didn't understand anything, I think it's turn based but with some extra..

 

[Florian 19,974]

7 hours ago, DiegoMonster said:

Having the game for MONTHS and only having “around two hours”.. 

Tbh I'm sure If played way more than that in the plane from Canada to France  Maybe they messed up with the different timezone I was crossing

7 hours ago, Haroon said:

So I was interested in unlocking new outfits for characters in Mario Tennis Aces so I’m trying the new ‘Co-op Challenge’ and it’s actually a lot of fun

I’m surprised you were able to put it down so easily after just starting it. Once I started I couldn’t stop for ages 

LOOOOOOOOL   

The worst is that I actually enjoy the game  But I just don't find time when I'm like "oh let's play Zelda"  Also I think I'm blocked somewhere

[Haroon 49,685]

6 hours ago, River said:

I went straight to the hot Prince Sidon

He's smile was everything, I was staring at him for a few minutes every time he showed up lol

What i really like is the mix between the nature and technology, it's really well done.

I just didn't like drones, I hated them actually..

LOL  Yeah first dungeon I did was the Zora’s Domain one too, working myself anti-clockwise from there.

Totally agree with liking the mix of technology and nature. Like there’s greenery and nature everywhere and then you hit parts with all this ancient technology and it doesn’t stick out in a bad way, it works somehow  I liked going around killing the Guardians with just shield parties at the beginning but it’d make me die quite a bit, but then after getting better gear I just started taking them out with an arrow to the eye and then chopping off all of their legs and then taking them down

4 hours ago, aaron l said:

A skinny legend coming in the skinniest place 

This is right on so many levels

3 hours ago, ZacharyMonster said:

heeeeeeeeey

its addicting 

I meant it positively  I think you explained ages ago how Xenoblade is but I was hoping you could re-educate us

[River 117,090]

44 minutes ago, Haroon said:

LOL  Yeah first dungeon I did was the Zora’s Domain one too, working myself anti-clockwise from there.

Totally agree with liking the mix of technology and nature. Like there’s greenery and nature everywhere and then you hit parts with all this ancient technology and it doesn’t stick out in a bad way, it works somehow  I liked going around killing the Guardians with just shield parties at the beginning but it’d make me die quite a bit, but then after getting better gear I just started taking them out with an arrow to the eye and then chopping off all of their legs and then taking them down

LOL yeah I love to kill them, I'm so brutal and they are somehow cute with this one eye head

oh few days ago I killed my first Lynel

But the worst are the white Bokoblin, those bitches refuse to die

 

[LADYGAGASHOOCK 3,986]

[Addison Rae 16,752]

oof im such a Nintendo STAN now. I still play ACNL daily and hacked my town to get tons of money and my fave villagers 

[Addison Rae 16,752]

Can anyone recommend me any 3DS and Wii U games too? I’m gonna get the Switch next year when they release the Animal Crossing edition 

[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

I was planning on explaining but I guess this times it right @Haroon @River

My total hours right now with the game is around 250 hours, and I have done a New Game Plus, which is basically restarting the game but with all of your stuff. 130 in my original, 110 in NG+ and 10 hours in Torna, but I'm not finished doing everything, even though I've finished the main story.

I’ll post each of the big parts of the gameplay in Spoiler Boxes, though I'll get two things out of the way right now.

And please don't kill the Baby Ardun in Gormott at the farms, it can be farmed up to level 99, provides excellent grinding for core crystals, EXP, etc as it becomes a Unique Monster and can be fought over and over again, but only if it reaches level 99.

Always save, this game does NOT auto-save and if you happen to crash/experience an error, you'll lose your save, so save FREQUENTLY (Though the game saves whenever bonding with a core crystal) and Tutorials do not appear again, so please feel free to screenshot them whenever you see one, because that's key!

Story

Spoiler

I won’t dig too much into the story, buts it starts off plain and simple. You’re Rex, a 15(?) year old salvager living in the world of Alrest, with your Titan companion, Gramps. You do some “things” and blah blah, and become the Driver of the Aegis and you’ll get your first blade that way. It takes many turns and explains themes of friendship, bonds, trust, and trying to make a better world out of a corrupt one. It’s a positive story that is explained through cutscenes, which are 13 Hours long. And there are 10 chapters in the story, with some being incredibly long, and some very short.

Battle System

Spoiler

In the battle system, it’s mostly contained of auto attacks for your standard way of attack. But, you have driver arts, which are powered through a line between the driver and blade, when connected, driver arts are more powerful (and if you upgrade them with points earned from beating an enemy) and blade arts (which can be upgraded with Weapon Points the more you use a blade and it’s weapon). When you use a driver art, it leads to a blade art. Each vary in level, but are devestating attacks than can put different status effects on enemies. But the most important aspect of this  is building blade combos. (A feature introduced later once you get 3 party members) which are combos that are used when using a blade art (Level 1 - Level 2 - Level 3) and have specific elememtal patterns to build elemental orbs. (Say fire - fire - light) (water - water - Dark). These orbs can be used in chain attacks (introduced later) which are activated once the three bars at the top left of the screen are filled. (These are also used to revive fallen team members, so find a balance) And once activated a chain attack, each party member will use any blade in their pool of three blades ready in combat to try to break the orbs. (Fire - Water, Ice - Wind, Electric - Ground, Light - Dark and vise versa, these are how you do a lot of damage to an orb and basic type advantages) Once you break an orb, you get a second round of attacks, and the blade art used to break an orb increases to level 2. Once you break around 5~ orbs, a full burst occurs, where the driver unleashed a level 4 blade art (forgot to mention, lvl 4 blade arts are available once a driver and blade reach max affinity, the blue line turns gold, and the level 3 increases to 4) to finish off the chain attack. That’s the basics of combat, and always try to use blades to cover their advantages and disadvantages in your party. Each driver in battle can have 3 blades! And you also have the driver combos, which is Break - Topple - Launch - Smash. This is done by doing driver arts to complete the combos, and once done, it'll launch loot earned from the enemy (gold, chips, crystals, etc.)

Blades 

Spoiler

Blades are special as they are unlocked by bonding a driver to a Core Crystal scattered across Alrest. There are different types of blades, Attack Blades, Healer Blades, and Tank blades, each with different weapon classes and such. There are common blades, but there are also Rare Blades, and these are the ones to aim for. They are stronger than a common blade and have multiple uses in combat and field skills. Field skills are just roadblocks and you must use a blade and their skills to get past it. To level these up, the blades Affinity Chart comes into play. You can increase trust with your blade, which unlocks a new section in the chart to increase level of certain abilities, skills, blade arts, passives, etc. And increasing trust level also increases auto attack level, but you could also just use core chips, a chip that increases/decreases the effectiveness of a blades weapon. These can be bought at shops or found in chests. Either/or. Maxing out a blades affinity chart can nab sweet rewards! Blades also have quests to do for their charts and heart to hearts to view, so please check them out.

Drivers

Spoiler

The playable characters, there are 5 drivers optional to play as. Rex, Nia, Tora, 4 and 5. (4 and 5 kept secret for spoiler reasons) Each one has a basic “class” (you don’t have to stick to that though!) Rex - Attack Nia - Healer Tora - Tank (his third blade is an attack but I’ll explain Poppi later.) 4 - Tank 5- Attack. Drivers have driver arts which are leveled up by another thing of points earned from battles, which have a max level of 5, and each driver has 4 arts [only three in battle] per weapon class, and each weapon art differs from driver to driver) which make it useful for delivering hard hitting attacks. Drivers also have "affinity" charts that use ANOTHER set of points to level up. These boost your HP, defense, attack, luck, speed, cancel ability, driver art recharge, etc! Drivers also level up, and they can level up just by gaining EXP from battle, or extra EXP earned from quests and sleep at inns to cash it in. Drivers also can use pouch items (food, art, instruments, etc) to boost stats for a certain amount of time, and these will boost Blades as well. They also have gear slots, which can be expanded with Pouch Expansions found throughout the game.

Gameplay

Spoiler

The gameplay is basic RPG, exploration is a heavy focus, and there are ton of chests, baddies, and quests to do. 88 regular side quests, 9 main story quests, and 28 blade quests. There are also Unique Monsters to fight, which are mini bosses that drop good rewards upon defeat, but are extremely difficult. The exploration is a key factor as there are a ton of Titans to visit, each with their own landmarks (warp points), towns, shops, people, etc to see. So exploration is heavily recommended to see all of Alrest! Rex also has Salvaging, in which he can use a cylinder (Normal, Silver, Gold, Premium) to fetch up treasure chests containing gold, gear and such to help make better items or to sell. You can also go to Collection Points to find items (Blades have abilities to help dig up more items in Collection Points, so these can boost the amount of things you find and can help make more items for your Drivers). You can always warp back to certain areas and farm these items with the landmarks, so keep that in mind if you're needing a certain item. Postgame is basically the same, but it saves before the final fight and you'll just pick up from there. And now you should be able to farm up for the Superbosses which provide the best stuff in the game, and you'll be broken as all hell. NG+ I sorta explained at the start but now you have all your stuff, and there are vendors for you to go to and exchange bonus EXP for rewards at certain inns, like ether crystals, overdrive protocols (the only way to change the blade from one driver to another, but these are EXTREMELY limited in the game, so be wise about it!), Ultimate Weaponry (A way to boost the points for a certain weapon on a certain driver to upgrade it faster), legendary core crystals, Poppi Parts, etc.

Poppi

Spoiler

Okay so Tora can't actually bond with core crystals, and instead uses an artificial blade called Poppi. Poppi is special as she doesn't work like normal blades. You can change the element of Poppi Alpha, QT and QTPi (Quick tip, QTPi doesn't come from story, it's a separate side quest you must do to unlock her, so if needed I'll post a link to the quest location), her class, stats, and such by building parts w/ ether crystals. Ether crystals are earned by playing Tiger Tiger, and an easy way to farm these is by doing stage one on easy as you can slip through walls and collect the chests to get better rewards faster, take less damage and such to help get more crystals. Though quick notice, some parts don't work on Alpha and QT, as they're restricted to certain elements, so keep that in mind, while QTPi does not.

DLC

Spoiler

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a season pass that costs 30 dollars, and comes with a ton of stuff, including Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna: The Golden Country, which is entirely different from the main game, so if needed I'll post an explanation of that game, but for now I'll post all the stuff available in the DLC.

https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com/dlc/

If you have anymore questions, please let me know. Thanks!

[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

oop double post

[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

1 hour ago, Dolce Vita said:

Can anyone recommend me any 3DS and Wii U games too? I’m gonna get the Switch next year when they release the Animal Crossing edition 

Definitely the following:

3Ds: Super Smash Bros for 3Ds, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Mario Kart 7, Pokemon (any will suffice lol), Kid Icarus: Uprising, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

Wii U: Super Smash Bros for Wii U (same as 3Ds, just pick which you'd rather play), Super Mario 3D World, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD/ The Windwaker HD, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Yoshi's Woolly World, Super Mario Maker,  (Mario Kart 8, Pokken Tournament, Bayonetta 2 Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, New Super Mario Bros U and such have been ported to Switch so it's a hard sell buying these games now, as they are better on Switch)

[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

23 hours ago, YourWhiskyMouth said:

Also I have Super Mario Party on preorder

and Lets go Pikachu, and Smash Ultimate my bank account’s not far from the shallow now 

I just pre-ordered Smash Ultimate, the Gamecube Controller and Adapter for 116 dollars. LOL

[River 117,090]

56 minutes ago, ZacharyMonster said:

I was planning on explaining but I guess this times it right @Haroon @River

I’ll post each of the big parts of the gameplay in Spoiler Boxes

Story

  Reveal hidden contents

I won’t dig too much into the story, buts it starts off plain and simple. You’re Rex, a 15(?) year old salvager living in the world of Alrest, with your Titan companion, Gramps. You do some “things” and blah blah, and become the Driver of the Aegis and you’ll get your first blade that way. It takes many turns and explains themes of friendship, bonds, trust, and trying to make a better world out of a corrupt one. It’s a positive story that is explained through cutscenes, which are 13 Hours long. And there are 10 chapters in the story, with some being incredibly long, and some very short.

Battle System

  Reveal hidden contents

In the battle system, it’s mostly contained of auto attacks for your standard way of attack. But, you have driver arts, which are powered through a line between the driver and blade, when connected, driver arts are more powerful (and if you upgrade them with points earned from beating an enemy) and blade arts (which can be upgraded with Weapon Points the more you use a blade and it’s weapon). When you use a driver art, it leads to a blade art. Each vary in level, but are devestating attacks than can put different status effects on enemies. But the most important aspect of this  is building blade combos. (A feature introduced later once you get 3 party members) which are combos that are used when using a blade art (Level 1 - Level 2 - Level 3) and have specific elememtal patterns to build elemental orbs. (Say fire - fire - light) (water - water - Dark). These orbs can be used in chain attacks (introduced later) which are activated once the three bars at the top left of the screen are filled. (These are also used to revive fallen team members, so find a balance) And once activated a chain attack, each party member will use any blade in their pool of three blades ready in combat to try to break the orbs. (Fire - Water, Ice - Wind, Electric - Ground, Light - Dark and vise versa, these are how you do a lot of damage to an orb and basic type advantages) Once you break an orb, you get a second round of attacks, and the blade art used to break an orb increases to level 2. Once you break around 5~ orbs, a full burst occurs, where the driver unleashed a level 4 blade art (forgot to mention, lvl 4 blade arts are available once a driver and blade reach max affinity, the blue line turns gold, and the level 3 increases to 4) to finish off the chain attack. That’s the basics of combat, and always try to use blades to cover their advantages and disadvantages in your party. Each driver in battle can have 3 blades!

Blades 

  Reveal hidden contents

Blades are special as they are unlocked by bonding a driver to a Core Crystal scattered across Alrest. There are different types of blades, Attack Blades, Healer Blades, and Tank blades, each with different weapon classes and such. There are common blades, but there are also Rare Blades, and these are the ones to aim for. They are stronger than a common blade and have multiple uses in combat and field skills. Field skills are just roadblocks and you must use a blade and their skills to get past it. To level these up, the blades Affinity Chart comes into play. You can increase trust with your blade, which unlocks a new section in the chart to increase level of certain abilities, skills, blade arts, passives, etc. And increasing trust level also increases auto attack level, but you could also just use core chips, a chip that increases/decreases the effectiveness of a blades weapon. These can be bought at shops or found in chests. Either/or. Maxing out a blades affinity chart can nab sweet rewards!

Drivers

  Reveal hidden contents

The playable characters, there are 5 drivers optional to play as. Rex, Nia, Tora, 4 and 5. (4 and 5 kept secret for spoiler reasons) Each one has a basic “class” (you don’t have to stick to that though!) Rex - Attack Nia - Healer Tora - Tank (his third blade is an attack but I’ll explain Poppi later.) 4 - Tank 5- Attack. Drivers have driver arts which are leveled up by 

Lemme finish on a computer hang on lol.

Thank you so much for this, it sounds very interesting and a game that can give a few months of playing, you made me wanna buy it haha

btw are there collectibles and things to achieve? I saw that there are many animals there to fight, do you collect them or something?

Can you change armor like in Zelda?

I guess I just need to get used to the battle system because it confused me a lot in the videos

[PrinceOfTheStorm 5,904]

8 minutes ago, River said:

Thank you so much for this, it sounds very interesting and a game that can give a few months of playing, you made me wanna buy it haha

btw are there collectibles and things to achieve? I saw that there are many animals there to fight, do you collect them or something?

Can you change armor like in Zelda?

 

Armor is a no go, gear is the only option. However in the DLC, you get access to this Challenge Area where you can earn different reskins and swimsuits of the outfits earned, though they take a pouch spot.

Collectibles are ehhhh, I don't know how to put it, but you can earn Key Items to help with side quests and blade quests, and different items can be collected through collection points, so sorta, but not something like major, at least with my experience with the game, although, Blades are probably the biggest "collectible" in the game. There are 38 total
20 random, 12 from story, 4 from quests, 1 from buying a core, 1 from salvaging and the NG+ blades which are obtainable through cores except one, and a new blade obtainable from beating the game. The biggest treasure is KOS-MOS, a stupidly broken blade which only has less than a 1% drop rate from cores, and becomes harder to get the more rare blades you have, but don't release blades thinking that'll increase your chances.

Forgot to mention there is 6 DLC blades, woops!

[River 117,090]

Just now, ZacharyMonster said:

Armor is a no go, gear is the only option. However in the DLC, you get access to this Challenge Area where you can earn different reskins and swimsuits of the outfits earned, though they take a pouch spot.

Collectibles are ehhhh, I don't know how to put it, but you can earn Key Items to help with side quests and blade quests, and different items can be collected through collection points, so sorta, but not something like major, at least with my experience with the game, although, Blades are probably the biggest "collectible" in the game. There are 38 total
20 random, 12 from story, 4 from quests, 1 from buying a core, 1 from salvaging and the NG+ blades which are obtainable through cores except one, and a new blade obtainable from beating the game. The biggest treasure is KOS-MOS, a stupidly broken blade which only has less than a 1% drop rate from cores, and becomes harder to get the more rare blades you have, but don't release blades thinking that'll increase your chances.

Is the DLC necessary from the beginning or can I wait until I finish the main story regualry? I yet to buy the Zelda dlc because I still have many things to do lol

It sounds like a totally different experience from Zelda and even FF, I'm buying it!

This is actually what I want, wow thank you so much!

And the art is so fantastic from what I saw and it's a major thing for me, I love to be mesmerized by games..