>>47013241>I feel like XB2 totally wastes its characters, the story is utterly generic.To be fair, it is just Takahashi doing that one story again, which can be tiresome. You might not like the direction Xenoblade is going, because Future Connected implies some Xenosaga shit, so if you're tired of that too you won't be too happy with it.
>They went the shonen anime route when a more ground, character-driven story could have been so much more interesting.It's a little borderline, yeah. But a lot of the character stuff can be subtle to the point of not even noticing it, case in point...
>Morag does LITERALLY nothingHer story is technically about finding her reason to exist, but it's definitely backgrounded compared to the rest of the team and all the antagonists. I guess that's what you mean by wasted characters.
>totally tacked-on mobile game mechanics like locking Blades behind pseudo-gachaRandom drops of weapons with different stats is pretty unusual for most JRPGs, but not for RPGs in general. Although I guess that's more Roguelike than anything?
>the map being shittyI actually really like the map design, or do you mean the minimap or fast travel stuff? I think they patched that and it's still sub-optimal, so I get where you're coming from.
>field skills being retardedMuch like HMs in Pokemon, if there was less of a requirement it would be leagues better. As it stands, I far prefer it to the original HM system but I've got better ideas.
Basically I get you on all that, I don't consider a lot of the problems you had to be major, alike I've been saying the game is slightly scuffed (they had to send their menu guy to work on BotW I think, so that's not the best in general either) but overall I think it's pretty good. It's not my favorite game, or even RPG, but I think it's pretty good. I imagine if I had a slightly different outlook the frustrations would get to me too, I've hated games for less (Bravely Default 2 comes to mind).
