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Nah, X is worlds behind XC was in control and gameplay refinements. It's a very frustrating step backwards.
My character has curls though; I could see that being kind of annoying. Actually, wouldn't tight curls be easier to maintain in strong winds than long straight hair? Fuck if I know, I have generic white guy hair that does whatever. Either way I like the hair line because it gives her a bit of a sarcastic personality. Like, fighting giant monsters? Easy. Finding your favorite conditioner while stranded on an alien planet, that's the real struggle!
Also, I'm not positive on this but I don't think I've heard that line since I started wearing a helmet? Might just be confirmation bias though; I've heard that line so much that I wouldn't be surprised if I'm just mentally skipping over it.
Okay, that'll be easier than not selling anything at all.
Yeah, I haven't played much yet, but that's definitely how it seems so far.
I super don't agree. That it has an onscreen indicator of where you are facing on the enemy, as well as now holding your position when you press the attack button regardless of where the enemy faces during the animation are tremendously huge improvement.
Combat in general flows so much better and smoother than it did in the original.
I also think the raw movement is way more fun. It is do god damn much fun to run and jump 30 feet into the air. I regret a little bit how much skells completely replace that.
Questing is also a lot more certain and less guessworky.
The much more polished and advanced positioning has made the game so much infinitely more fun for me to play.
The targeting system is awful though.
Combat is mostly fine except for the stuff they never bother explaining. I'm still not sure what combos and auras are for example. And most of the arts you get in classes don't really go together at all unlike in XC which built off each other much more easily and made much more sense. I could easily make builds in XC, I don't even bother to try anymore in XX.
Most of the stuff I'm talking about tho is the rest of the game. Having to search out party members, having to search out time pass spots, the borderline randomness of the map icons, quests having location marks sometimes and sometimes not, the wonky inside - outside camera. I mean I could name a ton more that are just messy jerky design decisions that XC didn't have.
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I'm almost positive they did when you get Melia. I played her a LOT and wiped the floor with everything.
I simply can't play it with the Wiimote nor deal with the quality of the N3DS version.
You literally can't play it with the Wiimote, no. You gotta use the classic controller.
But seeing as I have no clue where my Classic Controller is, I don't see being able to play a 70 hour jurp with Wiimote and Nunchuck.
Huh, I though you had to have a classic controller for it. I'd say for all practical purposes you still do because the wiimote+nunchuck setup seems like a horror show. And I'm normally pretty on-board with Wii motion controls.
Fuck right off, Square.
I can handle them both. At the same time.
I'm flexible like that
Like, so big it doesn't even remotely deserve an article
Let's just say I won't be surprised if it slips to 2017
I hunger.
You know, the day Star Wars comes out
Wow what a strange coincidence
I'm totally sure they're not in any way related though!
The level 30 Skells are so close I can almost taste them
Once I get my first Heavy I'll start Chapter 7
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did anakin skywalker lose his heart
UH YEAH DUH
that's literally the only way his character makes any sense in the prequels
Got past a boss fight and that leveled me
Went and bought the Mastema, which comes with a 50 fuel weapon on its right shoulder that hits enemies for as much as 36k per shot and that's no bullshit. Long cooldown but if you go into cockpit mode the enemy is basically toast
Ground against... maybe 6 of the big evil Pokemon Bug/Dark monsters on the King's... falls? In Oblivia. They were level 42. They did not stand a chance.
Lin ended up getting my level 20 skell destroyed but by the time this became an issue she, Elma, and the Murderess had all hit level 30
I am suddenly in a situation where I went from having about 2 million credits and nothing to spend it on to not nearly having enough for how I want to outfit my crew. I need to pick and choose my favorites for now and save up for the others, and also set up a money-making chain of probes so I can afford heavy frames for everyone
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Also this game has dropped some heavy hints with regards to what may end up being a strange bit of plot
Visual spoilers
Fuck bagflea squashes though, seriously.
Basically - any trigger warnings for someone sensitive to that sort of thing?
I'm currently in Chapter 7, which is a little over halfway into the story, and so far there hasn't been any weird sex stuff that I've run across. There's a female villain wearing a space thong (because of course there is) and the game still has a weird gender divide when it comes to how many outfits are displayed, but the question of sex in this universe so far has been handled as kind of a distant thing, another component of life that's affected by the circumstances of characters.
Nobody acts creepy toward Lin in-game, Lin hasn't acted creepily toward anyone so far, all the characters are focused completely on things that aren't sex. There's not a Ringabel to be found in the whole cast, as far as I can tell.
I don't know because I'm only halfway in, and also I'm not an authority on what counts as triggering versus not, but so far the game has not offended in that way
it feels like something that localization made better with what they had but it's hurt by him being the only gay character
(I am also around chapter 7)
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The translation plays them as pretty much pure camp self-assurance
That is somewhat helped by the fact that Lara Nara (at least) is a super competent commander who leads internal criminal investigations and is respected enormously by all of his coworkers
It's not known if anybody in the game is gay or not, because for the majority of characters their sexuality just never comes up, but man Lara is loud and being uncomfortable with how loud he/they is/are makes perfect sense