Finished Xenoblade X. I did chapter 9 and then quickly finished maxing all classes and reaching max level. Afterwards, I was laser focused on the story. I initially planned to continue side quests afterwards, I was sitting at just under 50% completion for Mira as a whole, but Chapter 13 was such a let-down, I quit afterwards. I wrote more about the new story in the monthly JRPG thread.
(TL;DR: I preferred not having any answers over the ones we got.)
Now, I've just started Star Ocean Second Story R. I've only played Divine Force before and weirdly loved it, despite people mostly hating on it. I don't have any opinion on Second Story R yet.
A lot of the combat comes down to whether or not you like tweaking your build over and over. There are so many things you can change - active and passive skills, equipment, equipment augments, Skell equipment and Skell augments - all for up to 4 characters, although you have quite a bit more freedom over your main character. If you're not into that, the combat can feel slow and like you don't make much of a difference.
However, there's a new feature in the Switch version that does help with that. You now have a sort of MP bar you can spend to re-use skill without waiting for their cooldown. It's quite generous, automatically refills for each battle and can be increased even further.
That being said, you don't have this feature for Skells until you beat the entire story. Skell are overall the worst part for me to be honest. Once you unlock them, nothing else really matters in casual play. They are leagues above your ability to fight without them, but they don't scale at all with your level or any stats. Just their equipment and augments, which are more limited than for ground combat. The only thing your level does is unlocking more Skells at Lv 50 and 60. The Ares 90 - the last one I unlocked - is so strong, I basically one-shotted everything in the last chapter without even changing anything.
Wenn man die ganze Liste im Artikel liest sind einige Namen leider passend für die Narative der AfD. 'Ausländische Namen' sind überrepräsentiert, verglichen mit einer generellen Liste der häufigsten Namen im Land. Z.B. Ali ist hier auf Platz 8, insgesamt aber nur auf Platz 122. (Erstbestes Suchmaschinenergebnis; Sogar nach Geschlechter getrennt, anders als die Liste aus dem Artikel.)
Reicht zur Hetze. Ignoriert natürlich auch komplett, dass diesen Leuten systematisch Steine in den Weg gelegt werden.
Die einizig korrekte Sache wäre es gewesen den Drecksverein zu ignorieren bzw. auf den Datenschutz zu verweisen.
I've got good news for both you and people physically close to you!
I've only seen them in Germany, but they've got at least all three Kanto starters, Pikachu and Mewtwo for shower gels and Charizard, Lapras and Jigglypuff for bath additives!
We even have a Pikachu toothbrush and Pokemon themed tooth paste. All available at your average grocery stores around here.
Spent the whole month playing Xenoblade X DE, which I finished just two days ago. I quite enjoyed the original release and did enjoy my time with this one as well. Knowing the game already, it was fun to kind of break it. I maxed both my level and all classes around chapter 9 out of 13 and got the best Skell available. However, the new content kind of took the wind out of my sails. I originally wanted to do all side quests after the story, but now I feel like I'm done. I knew the new lore could never hold up to expectations and theories I held for such a long time, but I still didn't feel it.
Now, none of that is true. You could still claim that Mira is a metaphor for Purgatory, but it's a physical space in the multiverse which one can escape from. And in fact, we do - after the whole of Mira is destroyed.
I know all the new things fit right into the other Xeno games and their overarching themes, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Something I've never felt after a Xeno game. Although X3 came close, for similar reasons.
Many of the original mysteries didn't even get an answer in the new chapter.
Lastly, I don't like Al. At all. And he's even implied to be part of L - note the similar names -, which was seemingly created by Al merging with Void. Which I found to be a bad conclusion for the character.
TL;DR: Xenoblade X was better without the added content. Sometimes open mysteries are more satisfying than bad answers.
There is a big difference between Ryza and the other two. Up until Ryza came out, the games used a traditional turn based battle system. With Ryza, they introduced action elements into the gameplay.
Personally, I'd recommend the later. Atelier, to me, is mostly about the crafting. I want to abuse the crafting system, which is somewhat different in each sub-series, to create gear so strong I basically don't have to think about combat. With the new system, once you achieve that, battles are a lot faster. But it's fun too, not just faster.
Other than that, you can take whichever you feel like. I haven't played an Atelier I didn't enjoy. They all have enjoyable characters. Keep in mind, the early games have time limits. I don't quite remember if Sophie or Ayesha have them, but Ryza doesn't.
Oh and I've heard the newest one is quite weak. But you didn't mention it anyway. Apparently they gutted the crafting...
The original one probably doesn't know, but I'd consider myself functionally immortal for as long as there are other vampires who didn't age for a couple hundred years more than I did.
As the original one, however, I'd never stop checking for new signs of aging. Well, at least until I've had enough of life altogether.
Das rote Flanellseil wird wohl auch die Brandmauer genannt.
Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt.
Thank you! Keeping up with other stuff in my life, I'd be looking at about 5 to 10 years. By then, the list is probably wildly different. Maybe it would be a fun plan for retirement, if I ever get there.