Xenoblade Chronicles 2 [¡Usad la etiqueta SPOILER!]

Nimrodel escribió:Me llama muchísimo este juego, pero nunca he jugado nada de la saga. Podría empezar con el y disfrutarlo? O se hace muy imprescindible jugar los anteriores?

Un saludo y gracias.

PAX 2017: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 May Be Exactly the Hardcore RPG Switch Needs

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is not for inexperienced RPG players. The battle system at its most intense is a tremendously complicated ballet of patience and timing that will take dozens of hours to master, and for RPG fans waiting for their fix on Switch, this should come as great news.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 follows a protagonist named Rex as he searches for a world called Elysium. Rex and his companions are known as “drivers,” and the weapons they carry have manifested into personalities called “blades.” In battle, a driver can cycle between multiple different blades to perform different types of elemental damage.

A separate meter will show whether your blade’s attacks (or “arts”) are ready to use or whether they’re currently charging between uses. Arts can be various types of attacks, HP potions, or other actions you’ll want to perform in battle, and can be selected using the Switch’s face buttons.

As you use standard arts, a more powerful elemental art will also begin to charge, beginning with level I and ranging up to IV. Using arts increases this charge meter, and as you’d expect, the higher its charge level, the stronger the attack will be. If you use it at level I, it means you get to attack sooner, but if you wait for it to be level III, you’ll have a much stronger attack. In other words, this means you have to decide whether you want to go for more frequent, weaker attacks, or hold off to use a much stronger one.

This is where things start to get complicated. Depending on the element of the blade you’re using (such as wind or flame, for example), yet another meter will begin to display a potential chain. For example, you might see three flames lined up with “Seal Self-Destruct” written next to them. This means that if you use three consecutive flame arts, you’ll get the bonus of sealing the enemy’s ability to use an attack called Self-Destruct in battle.

However, once you’ve earned this bonus, the enemy will gain resistance to flame, so your lower-level attacks will now do even less damage than they did before, unless you switch to a different blade that uses a different element that the enemy isn’t resistant to. Otherwise, you’ll have to fill yet another meter that you can use to break an enemy’s elemental resistance.

On top of all of this, your character’s actual movement in battle plays a bigger role this time around, too. Unlike in previous Xenoblade games, if you’re moving during battle, you’ll stop attacking. Instead, you’ll only attack while you’re standing still. This is because the angle you’re attacking an enemy from gives you a strategic advantage, with certain attacks dealing more damage from behind or from the side rather than head on.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the battle system, which also features a stagger system that allows you to “break” enemies and follow up with topple, launch, and smash attacks for damage bonuses. But the point of all of this is that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has massively evolved its combat to allow significant variation for players who master it.

There are lots of exciting games coming to Switch with robust experiences across multiple genres, and even Skyrim is on the way for players looking to scratch that RPG itch. But Xenoblade seems to finally be the brand new, massive hardcore RPG the system has been lacking.

As we wrote about at Gamescom, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a massive, gorgeous world to explore, and plenty of story secrets that will surely be revealed. But for anyone who’s been waiting for their next huge timesink after Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade is an incredibly exciting option that seems to be Monolith Soft’s most ambitious entry in the series yet.

Javisensei91 escribió:@Jake_dog como dice el compañero @chente1983, la camara es total mente personalizable. En el Xeno X, podias poner la cámara en primera persona o dejarla casi en vista cenital como side un RTS se tratase. Puedes configurar hasta el HUD, puedes hasta eliminarlo. Este Xeno 2 no creo que sea diferente.

Jake_dog escribió:

Javisensei91 escribió:@Jake_dog como dice el compañero @chente1983, la camara es total mente personalizable. En el Xeno X, podias poner la cámara en primera persona o dejarla casi en vista cenital como side un RTS se tratase. Puedes configurar hasta el HUD, puedes hasta eliminarlo. Este Xeno 2 no creo que sea diferente.

Entonces vendría a ser como el Xenoblade Chronicles X. De todos modos el estilo visual me genera sentimientos opuestos, porque por un lado me gusta el estilo anime de los personajes, pero en cuanto a los paisajes no encuentro esa belleza que tenía el de WiiU

Alejapo escribió:Ya puse el enlace y lo vuelvo a poner
https://youtu.be/h1LXL8YTEt4
Yo me lo calzo day one!!

Javisensei91 escribió:Soraya Saga acaba de retwitear el direct, por lo que fijo nos enseñaran algo de Xeno 2. Esperando la fecha y el trailer de exproración como en los dos juegos anteriores

Feroz El Mejor escribió:Espero que este sea como el primero, que te den libertad para continuar todo lo que quieras durante la historia, no me apetece lo mas minimo el tener que hacer ciertas misiones secundarias o subir hasta x nivel, si me destrozan los enemigos ya es cosa mia, pero no quiero que me vayan limitando como en el X y que fuera por capitulos.

Confio en que sea como pido.

danked escribió:@pakillo_ds ya tengo juego para comprarme la Switch. A ver si hay bastante stock tanto de la Switch como de la edición coleccionista por esas fechas.

danked escribió:@pakillo_ds ya... lo peor es que es un juego que le importara a poca gente y x listos saben que hay negocio en los juegos de nintendo y sus ediciones limitadas.

edit: poca gente en comparación lo que puede tener un Mario o Zelda.

Angelus666 escribió:que poquito contenido la collector, pena que no traiga una figura o algo mas.. aunque la caja esta muy guapa, de 70/80 euros no deberia de pasar trayendo lo que trae

danked escribió:@LyxRok censura al 70%. Yo tengo la coleccionista de Bravely Second y el artbook lo está

LyxRok escribió:Prefiero la caja japonesa...


PD: ¿Es la primera steelbox en un juego de Switch?