Bonus Episode - A Little Bit Tasteful - Xenoblade Chronicles 2

This game makes me feel all blushy-crushy. Welcome back! Today, on
a not-such-a-surprise-if-you-listened-to-the-last-episode episode,
we’re going to be “quickly” (by our standards) running through our
thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in preparation for our upcoming
episode on Xenoblade Chronicles 3. As the third game more directly
references the previous games than any other entry in the series,
we thought it was important to have at least covered the basics of
the second game to lay the groundwork. This week we’re going to be
giving a summary of the important plot points and then giving our
impressions and takeaways. XC2 is an RPG in the same style of its
predecessors in the Chronicles series, but with an overhauled
combat system and full of complicated interactions with its main
differentiating factor, blades. Blades serve the game both as
characters and your classes, in a way, with different blades using
different weapons and having a different selection of arts to use,
which makes your interactions with them meaningful in both a
narrative and mechanical way. They are also largely embarrassingly
pornographic. There’s a lot of give and take with this game. Your
ability to stomach the more juvenile elements will probably be a
deciding factor in how much you enjoy the game, and our feelings
toward it are complicated to say the least. There is a lot more to
the game than we get into today, but it should serve as a decent
refresher and lay out what we’re going to be comparing to next time
in the sequel’s episode. Thank you for joining us for this bonus
episode this week. We intend to do a full episode on this game at
some point in the future, as the sequel being released early sort
of quashed our original plan of doing it before that game came out,
so take this one with a grain of salt. Emotions ran high and we
took it out on the Nopon. Next time we’re going to be going full
length on Xenoblade Chronicles 3, so we hope you’ll look forward to
that.