The whole "DLC is bad!1!" argument is pretty damn reductive. Like XC gets a whole ass new game for its DLCs, thats DLC done right. Like REALLY right.

It's a shame Juniper is so bad gameplay wise. They're one of my favorite character from a story perspective. Their interation with Kite is also priceless

It’s really just… not surprising at all that many of these reviews can be summed up as “I kinda stared at the game for a few minutes and formed my opinion off that.”

I love the Replay Value argument about a game revolving around the 'Endless Now'.

Everyone talking about Mio, but a better example is probably Nia. After playing this big long game you FINALLY see Nia. If you played past games or anything you are probably incredibly hyped. And Bam, immediately shot and presumably killed. This was NOT predictable. My jaw literally dropped. Now if you play xc2 you probably knew she could just heal herself, which I believe is less of a predictable complaint and more of a callback to people play xc2. Anyway, I think the worst xenoblade review is those from people NEVER touch xenoblade. It's crazy The way so many people think the Xenoblade series just a bunch of big booby girls being sexualized and a bunch horribly cringe dialogue. I have offered to my friends this series a lot and they all think it's too weeby and too sexualized and it's really sad to see so many people write the series as that. (I partially blame Dunkey)

While there is predictability in the broad strokes of XC3, such as oh there's going to be some way in which we don't lose Mio as a party member, that Noah and N are connected or that there is something more to the queens than what is first shown, its the nuance of these things that make them interesting. I was expecting some sort of last second save with Mio but I wasn't expecting a permanent body swap and Noah is one of the most interesting character because counter to what a lot of people want to think he and N are exactly the same save their circumstance. They share all the same traits, its just how they are expressed that is different. They are both control freaks with a manipulative streak, it is just less destructive with Noah than N for example.

I can kinda understand not liking the game's ending on a first playthrough, but like just about everything in this game, even the tiniest amount of reflection on it, makes it abundantly evident what the game's going for and why it works so flawlessly. But more broadly, I've found the VAST majority of Xc3's harsher critiques have born from a complete lack of any real reflection or introspection. XC3 has become what I consider to be one of the most intelligently written games, probably of all time. Every aspect of it, no matter how minute or seemingly irrelevant is packed full of insane symbolic meaning. Noah and Mio's names alone are used to several layers of symbology, from the placement of M and N in the alphabet, to the biblical reference, to the connection with Nia, to even the way Z, A, and N the principle characters of the game are all the letters in Zanza's name, with Z and A being the first and last letters and N the direct middle, directly inverting the order of the alphabet and bringing Z's nature as the first moebius, and A's nature as the one who proclaims the beginning and the end full circle, as well as Zanza's whole origin, motivations and philosophy. I only recently noticed that in the final boss, X, Y and Z are all colored Purple, Green and Red respectively. IE: the Trinity processor's colors. That's just a tiny fraction of how deep all the symbolism goes.

OnlyOneHere is a legendary metacritic reviewer, they only like games if they have a car and/or multiplayer. And Bayonetta for some reason.

The 7th Hero not only gives you more options but at the end they join you in the final fight when your Ouroboros get separated. It's random but still.

The first article gives me serious AI vibes. Ive seen many articles doing rankings like that where the ranking and explanations felt like either they were done by an AI or by someone who hasnt actually played the game before. Also, Im glad to see someone else who shares my thoughts regarding the plot twists of 3. While I still dont think the twists in 3 are as good as what was in 1, I think way too many people treat "N/M and Noah/Mio are the same person" or "soldiers are actually bred in tubes" as though theyre the big twists of the game, like how Metal Face is Mumkhar. In reality, the big twists (to me, at least) are that M and Mio swapped bodies and that the Queens are fake (I know it was speculated just from trailers that Melia was a robot due to how robotic her movements are, but I think you need to pay VERY close attention to pick up on that). I also think that the dramatic irony helps play into what Takahashi said was the theme of 3: Life. Specifically, taking life for granted. We get to see just how wild and screwed up the world of Aionios is in a way that the main characters are blind to. We take the cycle of life for granted, but then get to see the perspective of characters who dont even know whats babies or old people are.

I better see an hour long of Xenoblade 2 Discourse

The only thing I agreed with on the Gameinformer Review is probably how the world is designed, but even then the game's world design still fits what they were going for. A world that is on the brink of destruction, with culture unable to actually build because everyone is stuck fighting this endless war. The empty level design makes sense, given that humans didn't really build much outside of the colonies. I do wish we would have been able to explore more landmarks though. Stuff like the Bionis head seemed like it would have been interesting. I liked how Future Redeemed designed it's playable area, and wish more of the game had areas like that.

The frustratingly obvious plot twist is probably that Moebius is the enemy. Which is subverted when the game makes it clear that there is moebius in all of us and that is why it is so powerful.

I love these videos! In the Xenoblade community, there are plenty of people who don't understand the stories, so for an outsider trying to get their review out before the game releases, they end up writing reviews like this. Also, I'd love to see a Xenoblade 2 reviews video, even though that one probably has the worst takes. It does seem like you already read one at 27:11 though! Did that guy just not like the idea of Xenoblade and gave XC3 that review to get the score down? The sexist take has always been kinda wrong anyways, but I guess thats more of an opinion than a fact.

*OnCe YoU bEaT tHe GaMe, ItS oVeR. wHaTs ThE pOiNt?* If i was drinking something when i heard that it would have come right out of my nose😂😂😂😂

I had a first-run switch (before even things like battery life updates) and play exclusively in handheld mode. I had WAY more performance issues w/ XC2 than 3- everytime I launched 2, it took a couple minutes for all the textures to pop in. XC3 ran completely fine.

It’s sad that in character/writing vs. class/gameplay that Hero rankings would be very different. Juniper wouldn’t have to be bottom and they’d probably at least in middle range, since nyan-binary isn’t just to be what annoying people complain is “woke”, like it is rooted in their Colony's isolation and reflective of island cultures developing genders beyond the binary in their tradition; but also as a way less likely theory maybe there is the vibes of good ol' Earth there in Maktha, which is Makna Forest + Land of Morytha, part-Earth ruins. Like in appeal, they're attractive and charming enough to make Kite move faster than Jin for and evaporate his xenophobia.

Ever... read reviews? Negative reviews? Angry reviews? Ah well, most people forget as soon as they move on. No harm done. But guess what... *they're all completely true!*

Sometimes I watch a video on KZfaq that makes me feel like a stupidhead for liking the games I like, lol.

The sad part of game reviews is that in a lot of ways its a race for websites to get theirs out. Creating a need for the reviewers to really rush through things to get things out so they can actually get a decent pay. I dont really blame the reviewers themselves but moreso the nature of writing reviews for a website.

I have had a few frame drops, but the biggger issue is the music randomly cutting out, it never happened on my first playthrough which is bizarre

I would love to see a thirs video where you look at XC2 bad takes, I guess there will be a lot more on that one from people who haven't played the game or didn't pass the two hour mark. The reviews seen in this video truly are something else, I guess some of them didn't understand a lot ofnthe game. For me, the ending is some of the best in the series, and FR just enhanced it

I have an older switch and I do get the occasional frame drop on xenoblade 3, but only in super large areas. I’ve never had a resolution drop though. It happens so infrequently that it’s nothing to really complain about, and even when I do drop frames it’s still playable, just a little laggy.

21:16 maybe this is a hindsight is 20-20 moment but i think some people could put 2 and 2 together about the mio swap because moments before learning about M’s power, we see her use that power with the spherical projection expanding out and then right after the swap mio, now in m’s body cries a single tear. I did notice that it was probably something important but then I forgot. Also maybe it was the fast pacing that makes you not realize what happened

Real ones know the signifer vs signifier battle what side are you on

I don't know who is particularly good or bad but I do know that Fiona is damn busted with her stat buff arts.

I got my switch on release back in 2017 and the game ran fine. It had a few tiny hicupps through the game but it rqn basically perfectly.

Best way to suss out a bad review is just to wait 'til they need to talk about how many polygons the switch can-or-can't push. Despite Nintendo games having looked amazing since the Gamecube, and played amazingly since forever, the audience that bad article writers will target are dumb enough to believe that Nintendo is the weakest thing ever and bad graphics = bad games.

fun fact, the one review that says "This game is a steaming pile of garbage" is actually put on a lot of games. the user "OnlyOneHere" or smth like that is like, the hater of video games and yet plays and buys every single one. some of his all time favorite games are sports games, and shooter games, and what makes a good video game to this player is multiplayer. otherwise he fucking hates the games, no matter what. it's so fucking silly I swear, go check out his account if you want a good laugh I promise you won't regret it lmao

For the first article I think gondhor is a good seventh party member. She would be in my top 5 at least, I usualy run a team with my main dps being one character specialized in crit damage and gondhor's chain order and hero order are phenomenal to garantee that the chain never ends prematurely. Maybe it's because I play wrongly but if I had to class her in the chain attack hero tier list (wich is the only reason for her to be on the team), she is definetly top 3 alongside ashera and fiona. But it's only if you consider chain attacking to finish the fight. I believe that there should be different list depending on the win condition of the party. However I think melia is too high in the list as she can mess up the chain attack and her order is not the best by a lot in my opinion considering eunie's (which has the same type as her) will already be used (which will lessen the impact of its effect) combined with the fact that the high damaging classes usualy run physical set up and not ether (thanks ultimate qigong). Furthermore everything that makes her calss unique can be learned by the main cast without using the class.

Slant Magazine seems to be media literacy deficient.

There's no chance in hell people predicted how Mio would be saved in the end. I'm extremely good at noticing details and hints and even I had no idea how they were going to get out that situation. In hindsight it's brilliantly forshadowed but a first time player is so not likely to have known.

I’ll never get over Pokémon Sword and Shield getting a higher score from IGN than Xenoblade DE

I’d argue Teach being the 10th best hero is fine, considering he has Ultimate Qigong (the best physical attacking skill) and and early game Burst source

Am I the only one who didn't catch on to N being Noah prior to M's reveal? I feel like an idiot but I genuine was caught off guard

The Game Informer writer shouldn’t just not review video games, but perhaps even fiction itself.

This was painful Great video 👍

13:55 Who is that actor please.

Cheesefingies is not happy.

Oh Xenoblade 2 articles are gonna be FUN!

Yes Grinding something I never did the entire time I played xc3 (main game) including getting to Lv. 99 bonus exp from side quests ad fighting unique monsters is more than enough to get to that level

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of XC3 compared to XC1, XC2, or Torna: TGC. I've played 3 multiple times, and each time it just feels like a downgrade from how stellar 1 and 2 still are, both in gameplay and characters. Gameplay wise, the combat is just...eeeh. The time-based cooldowns take far too long, compared to their auto-attack counterparts; they could've easily chopped the timers in half to make combat more engaging. There's also how all six characters wield the same class identically, when XC2's characters had their own unique spin even when using the same weaponry - Nia has issues swinging the heavy Shield Hammer or Greataxe, while Rex is more graceful with Chroma Katanas. This even extends to the Drivers having their own unique Arts. Granted, this is explained early on into XC3, as the characters are borrowing the knowledge from each other (and the largely-optional Heroes), but nevertheless makes them all feel replaceable, like it doesn't matter who you're controlling. Gems are also *severely* scaled back compared to 1, or 2's Aux Cores, with only twenty different Gems available, and around half having mediocre effects. 1 and 2 each had hundreds of effects, allowing for far more diversity and customisability - oh, and 2 also had Core Chips to directly power up weapons, and sometimes grant special effects (like powering up crits or granting stat raises or more gold drops, etc.), which is gone in 3. Why? Food also has no effect in combat, unlike XC2's Pouch system (of which many items were food or drink), which makes food much less important but also further reduces build variety and customisability. No reducing damage taken or speeding up art recharge or similar here; nope, it's all after-battle stuff like increased Exp or money or Class Exp. No Custom difficulty or "Bringer of Chaos" difficulty either, which is a shame; Custom was amazing back in XC2. Chain Attacks are, IMO, horrendous; you cannot control which options appear, and getting the most out of it is obnoxiously difficult due to how it requires over 200% to return three characters (the max; 100%-199% returns just two, and lower just one). Compare this to XC2, where it was guaranteed that all three active Drivers would contribute per turn (provided one wasn't physically obstructed or dead), and getting more turns involved breaking elemental orbs. Speaking of the orbs, that also made XC2 combat more engaging, as it tied the Blade Combo system into Chain Attacks - at the end of a Blade Combo, an orb corresponding to the last Special's element would be created around the target, and it could be broken in a Chain Attack to increase the damage ratio and grant an extra turn, and if enough orbs were broken in a single Chain Attack any remaining would auto-burst and the ratio would jump immensely, with the final character doing their Lv. 4 Special, making it a nice reward. ALL of this is gone in XC3, which is such a shame. Not to mention how repetitive the XC3 Chain Attack theme is, and how it replaces the far-better and thematically-appropriate boss themes; ugh. Also, some of the classes are just awful, and there's far more Attackers than Defenders or Healers, and restricting revival to Healer classes (aside from a specific accessory) is just too limiting in a game where characters die so much more often - why would someone suddenly forget how to revive simply because they're not a Healer anymore? In terms of characters...most of the Moebius are one-shot petty villains, introduced when arriving at an optional Colony then forgotten about after being killed (and the Colony freed). Only a few are actually important, but since they all wear the exact same red armour they don't visually stand out amongst each other anyway. XC2's Torna had far fewer members, but they were all far more memorable due to their unique designs and personalities, along with being relevant all throughout the story XC1's villains did change as the story progressed, but not only were the Faced Mechon all visually distinct, but there were other foes that aren't robots, and they all felt very well connected to the overarching story - far more than the Moebius. Aside from Moebius, Colony Mu is just the _worst_ of the Colonies, consisting mainly of young girls and being largely separate from the war; Mu just feels so out of place here, and not one character is at all likeable. I dread this place, especially since the Signifer is among the best Classes; if it was the Stalker, then I could just ignore Mu, but nope. Don't get me started on the stupid Armu-raising bullshit, which is cryptic as hell and requires paying a Nopon to make it rain over and over. Oh, and Sena's Quest is not even really about her; instead it's about the obnoxious, rude tomboy Ghondor, and her spiteful childhood-friend-turned-Moebius Shania - and I cannot STAND Ghondor as a character, as she's way too over-the-top and way too masculine. Ugh, she's just the worst. What a rip-off Sena got.

Dear god, some of those reviews were... something Also as a person who doesn't like xenoblade 2, even I don't agree with most of the common criticisms towards the game. That video will probably be the silliest of these (though i'll admit i'm intrigued by the concept of bad xcx reviews)

...Well at least the stuff isn't as bad as the reviews of the old days. That said there are some really vapid takes amongst the examples you provided.

Hated these comments but man was it entertaining to hear it from you Xenobits!

a tragic, cheesy decision

You kind of touched on what they said here, but I don't think you really understood what they were saying. "you may ask yourself why it took nearly 40 hours [...] to get at [...] why your party members consider children and the elderly to be a "new species"" They're wondering why it took 40 hours for it to be explained, not that they had a complaint about the characters not knowing anything about young or old people. Anyway, the game only takes until Guernica for one to fully realize and absorb the knowledge that these characters have never seen children or the elderly and the game tells you all of this before you're even done with the main "tutorial" section! The real criticism for this point would be, why did it take this person 40 hours to figure this out??? What all were they doing while the cutscenes were running in the background??

Imma be reaaal honest, that whole review with the "operations" reads like it was taken from a foreign language review and shat through google translate.

Despite the reviews. XC3 is the first Xenoblade I did not finish. Not that the games fault but maybe my expectations didn't align with this one. I thought they would build upon 2 but they went the other way and that's too bad.

27:08 they accidentally wrote a review for xenoblade 2 on the xenoblade 3 page, I see

You can always trust The Gamer being part of any worst content. They are bottom of the barrel gaming journos that had the nerve to criticise iconic classic look Cammy for being sexist :-)

Complimating every hero Who were down Juniper And then made 3 lines for her🤣🤣

If someone did guess the M and Mio swap, with the only hint being the music, then they are the smartest gamer in the world. I feel some of these reviews are definitely from those who simply dislike JRPGs. That Hero ranking is completely based. I'm sorry to all of the Ethel and Cammuravi shippers.

Yeah the hero list was mostly BS. Here is my personal hero ranking. #1: Asherah - Absurdly OP Chain Art. Enough said. #2: Fiona - Buff spam + OP Chain Art + reviving privileges = one of the best heroes. #3: Grey - Insane damage and a very strong chain art, especially early on since he's one of the first heroes you can get. #4: Nia - Best healer in the game for pure healing. #5: Alexandria - Good chain art and very high damage. #6: Valdi - The best healer in the game for pure healing until postgame, and it helps that you get him incredibly early. #7: Miabi - Kinda overrated. Her class combos well with Fiona's and gives you burst access which is incredibly useful, but otherwise is just kind of mid. Her damage output is particularly low. #8: Camuravi - Second highest damage output after grey, but is limited by his low defense. #9: Isurd - Pretty good healer that can dish out a decent amount of damage as well. #10: Melia - Good damage but not really that great with anything else. #11: Riku and Manana - Are really only good for their access to break. Otherwise they're pretty mediocre. #12: Monica - An okay tank, but is heavily overshadowed by Asherah who you gain access to quite a bit earlier. #13: Gonhdor - Part 1 of 2 for underwhelming attacker heroes. #14: Ethel - Part 2 of 2 for underwhelming attacker heroes. Her class is REALLY good but her availability is the worst in the game BY FAR. #15: Zeon - Really not as bad as people say, but far from the best. You're better off sticking to Valdi at the point where he could potentially be useful. #16: Ino - Part 1 of 2 of underwhelming DLC characters. #17: Marva - Part 2 of 2 of underwhelming DLC characters. I guess Monolith heard the criticism of the XB2 DLC blades like Corvin, Crossette, Fiora, and Elma being too OP and made the XB3 DLC heroes intentionally lackluster in terms of power? IDK. #18: Segiri - Is pretty bad and forgettable overall, but at least her quest was great and was basically Sena's REAL ascension quest. Sucks that you're pretty much required to do her massive quest chain to get all the origin metal in Chapter 7 because one of the metals is past a poison swamp with overleveled enemies and her field skill is the only way to reasonably reach it. #19: Teach - Awful hero and awful class with low healing potential AND low damage. His chain art isn't anything to write home about either. #20: Juniper - Slow attacks, awful arts, and extremely mediocre chain art makes them one of the worst heroes. #21: Triton - Awful chain art that does more harm than good and pitiful arts and stats. Edit: Fixed pronouns.

😂XORD be like: 4:15 😂

When you said bad review do you actually think about captain astronaut reviews on xenoblade 2. There is plenty of incoherence like I understand we don't need an other shulk then compare Rex to Shulk. Forget that despite having boo-boo Pyra mythra are great character, compared 2 moment planned to be dramatic (xc1 and x) with a moment planned to be funny (xc2,)There is more but its a on-line creator I respect so if you planned to do his video be respectful. Also he simp for morag despite hating weeb behaviors.

You should respond to me even though I dont have a channel membership anymore

literally this game's graphics are only good in comparison to other switch games, maybe nintendo should start making good hardware. there's only so much monolithsoft can do in that regard but denying the low points in the dynamic res of the game and occasional frame drops makes me wonder if you ever do play games that run well. like if you only play games on switch maybe it doesnt feel too bad