What is the worst Nintendo game?

[starseeker300]

The combat wasn't the worst I've ever played, and yes, it was better in Torna, and I thought the actual level design and how you can find stuff in these little nooks and crannies was well enough done. Everything else, though. went from passable to liquid feces. I usually try to do as much as I can in a game before finishing it so I can get the fullest experience, but this is one of the few games that I just gave up on with that. Having to swap my party around to do anything, in combination with the whole rng based crystal system and having to grind so much to get rare blades with specific skills was so god damn tedious and horrible to the point where I just went absolute ape shit at one point and started yelling at the screen. I completely agree with the writing, too. It's mid as fuck, and other than maybe the whole concept of Blades, everything it tries to do I have seen done better in other pieces of fiction. But I think the absolute most damning thing for the story and characters is the voice acting. There is not one performance where I thought to myself "Shit, they actually did decent for this game", no, it was all dull as a wooden plank. Even with mediocre writing, a good, passionate performance can win me over, but this game has neither good writing nor voice acting.

I was willing to defend this game at first, and my opinion wasn't influenced by some youtube video or some shit saying that it was bad. Actually, it was quite the opposite. I was told it sucked by a guy I trust while I was still very early in the game, but I still kept a positive view on it despite that. Then I heard it a masterpiece by so many people, and my hopes got even higher. I was told it gets good later, but it never did, and I only got more and more sick of the game's bullshit. I get the whole "decent gameplay but great story" bit, trust me, my second favorite game is Red Dead 2, BUT BOTH HALVES OF XENOBLADE 2 ARE DOG WATER. I've had such a god awful experience with this game that I have little to no interest in playing 3, despite it being downloaded on my Switch for half a year by now.

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Sorry for the absolute wall of text, but Jesus fucking Christman, man, this game...

no thank you for explaining your reasoning, ive played xc1, future connected, xc2, and torna. and i gotta say the series so far has been preety hit or miss.

XC1: phenominal story probally one of the best ive seen in fiction, but all the actually game parts of the game suck major dookie, slow boring combat, it feels liek im giving the character im controlling suggextions rather than actually playing as them in battle, and literally every single side quest except one is a fetch quest

Future Connected: Fixes some issues with the gameplay but not the major ones such the combat overall being too slow and uninteractive still, the specials are better now. due to its shorter length the problems dont grate as much but they are still there

XC2: gameplay is much more interactive and it feels like I'm actually playing as the character now instead of just giving a simulation suggestions, i really like the blade combo system. but man that story is so cringe, and rex, mythra, and tora(if i here "meh" one more time im gonna crash out like samuel l jackson in pulp fiction) are some of the most unpleasant characters ive ever had to deal with. pyra and zeke are inoffensive but one note, nia(outside of the crush on rex) and morag have some interesting things going on but I agree it has been done better elsewhere.

Torna: Is the only one id say so far is genuinely good overall, a great story about how jin became a villain with an even better version of the blade combo system that lets you do more than just specific ones. im still gonna play xc3 and xcx because of torna though probably not soon

overall the biggest problem with the series is that they tried to reinvent the wheel when they didnt need to with the combat, they tried to combine an mmo combat system with a traditional turn based one and ended up with the worst of both worlds in the original, if they dropped what they have now for an action rpg but still somehow worked the elemental combos in the series could reach its full potential in my opinion