[ShyGuy]

Been playing Xenoblade X lately, this game is seriously huge. It makes the original Xenoblade feel small and that's saying something. Honestly though the sheer amount of content and depth is kind of overwhelming. The game doesn't do a great job of explaining important gameplay details about combat, exploration, party management, etc. Even hours in I still feel like I don't really understand what I'm doing much of the time. Despite that though I'm having a great time with it just exploring the world, I'll just figure things out as I go along!

The only real disappointment with it so far is the soundtrack. It's not that it's bad or anything, but the original Xenoblade had one of my favorite game soundtracks of all time and this just doesn't really live up to it at all for me. Sawano's work is pretty divisive in general I think and tends towards either love or hate for most people. While I certainly don't hate it, I just think the work of Ace+, Yoko Shimomura, and Manami Kiyota in the original was one of the absolute highlights of the game and I would have loved to hear what they could have done for this one.