I felt the same way when i played the first one, and I wondered how it got so many good review scores
I'm only about 2 hours in and I don't dislike it as much as you do...but it kind of gives me the feeling that a lot of more generic JRPGs from last gen did. It feels extremely straightforward to the point of being bland, at least in the early hours. Coming off of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, where every chapter built up to exciting and shocking moments, and the combat required a ton of thought and strategy, this doesn't seem to scratch the same itch right away.
I'm playing XBC2 directly after this one, can't wait.
Oh no.. that's not good to hear, lol. I don't have much room or space right now so I don't really plan on taking it out for a while. I hope I won't have as much trouble when I attempt it myself. I imagine the Papercraft Display thing will be pretty complicated as well. So those two will sit in the box for a while I guess, lol.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. Thank fucking god. Came into this thread to share my impressions and this is basically what I was going to say. I'm 3.5 hours in or so, around the same as you, just started chapter 3. I want to hold on until I get to the skirmishes, side quests, and kingdom building, because there is literally nothing so far that is at all compelling. I'm not even sure those could save the game for me, I hate it so much. Musou random enemies take longer to beat than the encounters in this game. Bosses included. The story is shit, the music is repetitive to the point of being downright annoying (part of it is because you're constantly getting in and out of battles and thus resetting the music every fucking time, part of it being the reuse of dungeon music for seemingly every dungeon thus far), the exploration in both dungeons and the world map is poorly designed hot garbage, shitty annoying puzzles, graphics aren't even as impressive as the first game... this game has it all. I had pretty low expectations coming into this, but hoo boy, it blew right past them in the wrong direction.
Oh fuck me, I got 5-7 more hours of this shit?!?!!?!?!? I'm not sure I can hold on that long, to be honest.
Thank fuck for Amazon Prime. I got it for 20% off, thus I can very easily make my money back or close to it by reselling it.
Yup, this game was obviously rushed. The character intro thing (5 second voiced cutscene then the rest unvoiced dialogue in-game) reminds me of Lunar, which is an over 25 year old game. Except for Lunar, the reason for the short anime intros for each character was because they literally could not afford the disc space to do much more at the time because it was on a CD. This has no fucking excuse other than a lack of budget/time.
