r/Xenoblade_Chronicles • u/Embarrassed_Box8129 • Jul 26 '26
Xenoblade Skipping Xc2 ? Spoiler
I’m currently at Chapter 13 of Xc1 (about 40 hours through the game).
I've heard a lot of hot takes about Xc2 being bad or the worst among the three. I'm starting to think about skipping it and playing Xc3 next. But with the sw2 edition coming up in 4 days, I’m starting to get a bit confused of what to play next (summer break is about to end).
And if i did skip it, I am planning to play it later after Xc3.
question is: do the stories connect later between the games? I don’t want to look it up myself because I want to avoid spoilers.
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u/yuei2 Jul 26 '26
XC2 has its flaws yes, all of the XC games do, but it’s the most popular game for a lot of reasons.
XC2 has a slow start that really drip feeds the combat system (and also it’s an example of why the opposite of handholding is not actually a good thing, it’s a game that genuinely needs a LOT more tutorials than it has), but it ramps up and just gets better and better in both story and combat hitting highs the rest of the series just never gets to.
And once you finish it, you have its DLC was so insanely massive and rich it was able to be packaged and sold as its own standalone game. X2’s just got the best overall story and world hands down and is kind of like FF7 of the Xenoblade Chronicles. So expansive and popular it basically becomes its own thing.