Tales of Xillia 2 Discussion (mark spoilers!!)

Radge · Joined: 14 Dec 2012 Posts: 989 Location: Town of Duwang

From hearing how awesome and manly this Sanger Zonvolt is from PXZ discussions, I'd buy it.

BTW, haven't they tormented Leia enough? She already gets a costume for the girl who has the biggest rack, AKA Mami from Madoka, and you want to give her a costume that purposely shows underboobage, (when she only has average sized ones)?!

Laughing

I'd still buy it.
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JiCi · Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 308

Question: does the game encourage constant party formation swapping?

I'm aware that the game had a tag-team mecanic (which doesn't seem to be mentioned or used that often in videos), but the game might not put a lot of emphasis on it.

I'm asking this because I played Graces F a lot and what I come to like was that the game encouraged me to rotate my party members. I tried just about every party formation possible in the game, and believe it or not, I liked that. Yes, it was because active party members received more points for their titles, but I didn't feel forced to change my formation. Ok, I'm using Asbel (big shock) with Sophie, Hubert and Cheria, then I swap for Pascal and Malik while keeping Cheria, then I swap Sophie back for Pascal, then I swap Hubert for Cheria, etc...

It feels kinda good to try different formations throughout the game. I'd like to know if Xillia 2 encourages you to try every character in the game in many formation. Do you feel "compelled" to use the same formation over and over?

Zacewing · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:44 pm Post subject:

Xillia 2 doesn't have in-battle party member swapping anymore cause you can only take 4 party members with you when you leave town. The game forces you to take certain party members along for the different storyline events and character episodes, as far as I know, so you're going to be using every party member at some point.

This is just going by what I've seen in videos/streams, so somebody can correct me if I'm wrong?
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Accelerator · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 6991

that's correct. It's only during the mid-episode breaks and final chapter that you can freely choose your party.
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Zacewing · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:43 am Post subject:

They're all fully functioning party members.
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Lloyzerdk #2 · Joined: 05 Jan 2013 Posts: 153

Did Fujishima and Inomata design any new characters in Xillia 2 besides the returning Xillia chars?

pflaume · Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 847

No, only new costumes for old characters. The prominent new characters were done by Okumura.

JiCi · Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 308

froexen · Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 366

Nope

They did it because of that Party cap. limit (4). Thus such gimmick would've been useless

JiCi · Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 308

I see...

BTW, I'm trying to find these images:
- All 9 characters MA cut-ins (single and dual)
- Gaius's and Musee's status images

Did anyone find those? I've check a bunch of web sites, including Abyssal Chronicles and Aselia Wiki... and no luck.

Colour · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 1518

There was an Xillia 2 popularity poll:
1. Ludger
2. Julius
3. Jude
4. Gaius
5. Milla
6. Alt!Milla
7. Leia
8. Alvin
9. Victor
10. Elize

What does Japan see in Julius? He wasn't a bad character by any means, but he wasn't a particularly interesting one either.
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Ruin · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:04 am Post subject:

Rowen's not even there

supreme sadface
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Zacewing · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:24 am Post subject:

why is victor even there

he gets like 5 minutes of screentime in the entire game
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