Capcom: not spending money on quality translations since Breath of Fire II.

Having already played and beaten Xenoblade to near completion (all sidequests, a lot of the field items), I find it hard to feel convinced by a reviewer who "Powered my way through much of the game—including quite a few side quests—in around 35 hours." My end game time was somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 hours.

I started Outland a little earlier today, but I think I'm done with it after 2 bosses. I rarely leave games unfinished, but Outland just does nothing for me. The bosses are fun, and while the visuals are pretty, they're not very interesting, and the gameplay just feels repetitive. For me, it's like if Metroid, Prince…

@lambdacore Between tortoises and turtles, 12.

Owning a number of tortoises, I can guarantee you won't want to know what a Koopa smell like.

I played Odin Sphere to completion years ago, but the only thing I ever took away from it was how terribly repetitive it was. I never thought it was very hard, and I can't remember the story for the life of me, but I remember groaning halfway through because each character went through the same stages over and over…