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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 22, 2015 18:56:56 GMT -5
Battle-wise, character-wise, and plot-wise?
I didn't like Xillia 1. That being said, I happened to get Xillia 2 as a gift. Is 2 worth a go, or is it more of the same?
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 22, 2015 23:30:12 GMT -5
If you got it as a gift, why not?
Anyway, I'm not exactly a technical expert when it comes to Tales (I'd call myself a technical 'something', but I'm pretty sure it'd be inappropriate), so take everything I say with a grain of salt. I've only played the game once through, but I did so on hard and completed all the content.
- Battles It's pretty much Xillia 1, except now a weakness system has been added so that you can combo bosses. It's not complicated, or at least it wasn't so complicated that I couldn't play it through on hard without trouble, but I don't want to give any false information so I'll leave it to somebody else to detail.
I will say that once you get the hang of it, it becomes so simple you can pretty much sleep through every fight in the game.
- Characters Are you talking from a story/development point of view, or a combat point of view? If it's a story/development point of view, then you should know that the main plot focuses on Ludger and Elle. You get 'character episodes', which serve as a side arc for each character. They're an interesting idea, and I wouldn't mind seeing them again, but because they are so separate from the main arc, it really makes everyone else feel like they are 'along for the ride' rather than an integral part of the story.
If it's a combat point of view, you have 9 characters now and everyone has new artes. The weakness system does make certain characters more potent than others due to these characters being able to hit more weaknesses, but to my understanding everybody is viable and much more potent than the first game.
- Plot It involves wishes and traveling to other dimensions. Abandon any hope for logic right there, and be ready to accept every plot hole that comes with that type of story. Even accepting that, the story is pretty 'whatever'. I remember quite a few people calling it 'dark', but the biggest problem is that it's too short and so many of the revelations/events are so obvious you can see it coming a mile away. The latter speaks for itself, but the former is something that would take a bit of explaining and delve into spoiler territory. In my opinion it's the kind of story that's too heavy handed in making you feel emotions.
Basically, just play along. If something makes you go, 'what?' or 'why don't they just...', let it go.
- Summary (and answering your question in a broad sense) Xillia 1 feels like only part of a game. Xillia 2 also feels like only part of a game, but for completely different reasons. I don't want to wall-of-text the daylights out of this, but Xillia 2 feels more like a step to the left than a step up. It introduces as many problems as it fixes, amounting to something that most people will find 'better', but will vary depending on what a person looks for in a game. For example, every area in the first game is re-used. If you like exploring and seeing new areas, Xillia 2 is not the game for you. So far as I can tell, you got it for free, so why not give it a shot? You don't have anything to lose.
I'm sorry if that's not detailed enough. I am insanely verbose in my typing, so I'm really trying to contain myself. Hope that helped answer some of your questions.
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Post by yajuu on Feb 23, 2015 8:15:36 GMT -5
I like X2 better than X1 in pretty much every way, but it's still Xillia. If you disliked X1 enough to drop it, I wouldn't go into X2 expecting a radically different experience (I suppose that goes without saying). Either way, if you own it you might as well pop it in for an hour or two. You're probably gonna get conflicting opinions in this topic. Likely better to give it a spin and make your own conclusions.
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Post by musaboriman2 on Feb 23, 2015 12:51:50 GMT -5
The story here is at least complete unlike the first game, and the character episodes do a decent job expanding on the characters from X1, including Gaius and Muzet who grew personalities for this game. (Seriously they had no personalities in X1, but now they're like actual people!)
Ludger (the main character) is insanely fun to play as, as is the entire rest of the cast (except for Muzet for me personally), and while the weakness system can be said to make the game formulaic at times, it is an overall improvement and prevents spamming (spamming was useful in X1, but won't get you anywhere in X2). You can actually have a fun time fighting bosses in this game. The character episodes, while significantly increasing playtime making the game overall feel like a fuller experience, aren't really tied to the main scenario, but ARE tied to the plot threads of X1 that didn't get resolved, or introduce new ones to help flesh out the X1 characters more, so I enjoyed them.
Overall, your mileage may vary, as with anything, but I consider this to be a step up from Xillia 1, but I wish that this game had more new areas than it did (only a few)
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Post by jizzle701 on Feb 23, 2015 18:40:25 GMT -5
I think xillia 2 is superior to xillia 1 in every way.
Battle Wise: The weakness system as mentioned the old cast has New artes and linked artes, Ludger has weapon switching which is very fun to use also... Chromatus.
Story wise : Also superior the character stories extend play time and flesh out all the characters the choice system can warrant multiple play throughs.
Bonus : in the EX dungeon you can get these transformations so you can look like different characters in the story kinda like the nakiri dolls (Sp) in Grace's so you can make some crazy combinations
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Post by Pássaro on Feb 23, 2015 21:28:53 GMT -5
Xillia 2 is what Xillia was suppose to be truth be told. Battle-system wise.
The stories are...well they both are self-contained.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 24, 2015 22:16:44 GMT -5
If you got it as a gift, why not? Takes me forever to complete games, what with work and all. Time's precious, and the backlog is long. I'd rather not throw 70 hours away on a game I don't particularly like No, it was very comprehensive, thanks, and actually the sort of analysis I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. Writing on the wall doesn't look good... might finish Graces as my next Tales game instead.
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