I finished Xenoblade Chronicles DE last week. Played the first few minutes of X last night. I dunno if I'm ready to give it a real serious playthrough just yet, but if they got the online features working again, I'd be much more motivated to spend time with it.
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I think even without online , I'd recommend just based on the world-building (side missions especially get greater and have game-spanning storylines), and level of freedom this game gives you is one of the best of any RPG; although online does make end game even more robust :p
Can we use online in X with pretendo? or not yet?
I played it back at launch and dropped it back then. The game gives you a lot of freedom, but it does get kinda overwhelming sometimes.