The joke about eating Tatsu wasn't funny when i first heard it and after the fiftieth time it isn't any funnier, and the other helium aliens are somehow almost as annoying as that furball. Oh right, fucking Tatsu and the other aliens, if something can make you a xenophobe it's these guys. And is it just me or is the text just too small? It would be okay if i was playing the game on pc and sitting in front of the monitor, but from the sofa i can barely see what the text says most of the time. That's way too much shit you need to shift through to do something as simple as to level up. For an example, just to level up one of your skills you need to open the pause menu, hit the party tab, scroll down to arts and not skills open that one, wait for a screen to pop up, select a character and then either open up Arts palette or list and find the skill you want to level up and hit X. Then there are the menu screens, i can't remember the last rpg that had them as bad as this one, they could have used the WiiU gamepad to make navigating the menus a bit better but no, everything is hidden in subcategories. Only redeeming thing in the combat is that you can create your own builds, but even that when the combat takes fairly long doesn't help a lot. The damage rubberbanding is also ridiculous in the battles, i decided to try out knocking an enemy of a cliff to see if it would die and it dropped to the bottom and started attacking me through solid ground killing my whole party because i couldn't attack it back. The problems started basically right after creating the character, the game has horrible pacing missions might contain low level enemies up until the boss encounter which suddenly ramps up in level and difficulty forcing you to start grinding levels until you gain enough stats to be able to deal enough damage to bosses.

Xenoblade chronicles x level grinding