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Message: [QUOTE="What's His Face, post: 147964, member: 125725"] To really appreciate Xenoblade 2, you really should play the DLC first - Torna: The Golden Country. I mean yeah, that will remove some of the mystique from the base games' story, but it helps to explain SO MUCH of what's going on and why we should care about certain characters. Now, a few people like to decry how silly or "anime" (what does that even mean?) the game is, when in truth the story is some severely dark shit. And I mean more than [SPOILER]the pope being evil.[/SPOILER] I mean [SPOILER]depression, suicide/desiring death, mass murder, cannibalism, what defines life, being left behind/forgotten, what defines self, extreme nihilism, repercussions of war, starvation, poverty...[/SPOILER] the list goes on for pages. [SPOILER="You will want to protect this smile..."] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1742867745598.png"]48155[/ATTACH] [/SPOILER] If anything, the writers added so many silly moments to blunt the trauma the rest of the game would otherwise cause. Now, the RNG of getting the Rare Blades was utter ass, but there are easy ways to get Legendary Core Crystals to mass spam for them so it's just time consuming rather than difficult. And the battle system, when it clicks, makes the game ridiculously easy. To the point of taking on a Level 100 superboss at level 65 and [I]winning... [/I]albeit after a good 30-minutes of "why the fook ain't I dead yet?!" combat. Not to mention that with later updates you can just let the game play itself, or make it more punishing than a [I]Souls[/I] title. Or was that the third game that happened? Hmm... My first play through it took a bit for Xenoblade 2 to really [I]click [/I]for me, so I really get that from others. I think it was around Chapter 5 (of 10, mind) when I realized that, while I was playing the game right, I was [I]experiencing[/I] the game [I]wrong.[/I] We learn early-on that when the awakener of a Blade dies, so too will their Blade... only the Blade will simply revert to their base Core Crystal and, when re-awakened, will do so with no memory of their previous self (like a PC being reformatted). We also learn that the blade will take on certain personality flavorings of their Awakener, but I digress. I was so focused on the silliness of the game that I was overlooking the fact that the point of the journey was [SPOILER]for Pyra/Mythra, the Aegis and thereby an Immortal Blade, to ask The Architect to kill her so she could finally forget her life as only he had the power to return her to her base Core Crystal state allowing her to forget everyone she lost and all the people she accidentally murdered.[/SPOILER] While she had fallen in love with Rex, she also refused to admit this as [SPOILER]she was using him as a means to an end - helping her find a way to Elysium where The Architect waited.[/SPOILER] tl;dr: If you're going to play Xenoblade 2, play [I]Torna: The Golden Country[/I] first. It'll put you in the proper mindset to appreciate the full game, and provides you the proper background to understand why the entire game is really [SPOILER]Tetsuya Takahashi repeatedly kicking and stomping on your balls.[/SPOILER] If you DO opt to play Xenoblade 2... make sure you play Xenoblade Definitive Edition first. There is one monolithically important story detail that's changed between the Wii/3DS version and the Switch release that, without knowing this plot detail, will make a monolithically important plot detail not make sense. Oh, and you know that part where I said that a Blade being reduced to their Core Crystal due to the death of their awakener will cause a full reset of their memories? One of the "Heart-to-Heart" scenes with KOS-MOS serves as a neat little foreshadowing/inside-reference moment. IYKYK. [/QUOTE]

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