Strong start for Xenoblade Chronicles 2. That first chapter being setup for everything really drew me into the game, so I'm hoping to stick to it as the other JRPG's I played this year (Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Persona 5) didn't hook me in. Incredible music too. I had heard it was good, but I thought it'd be more in the way of like just good orchestrated stuff, which is fine, but that music doesn't excite me and get me listening to it afterwards. It's actually got some pretty rocking tunes, like the battle theme and one that showed up in the latter half of the first chapter.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes as I thought the first Chronicles was abit "Meh", I didn't play it for than a few hours, and while I played over 30 in Chronicles X, I really had a lot of issues with the game, but this feels more scaled back than what I remember of either one, which is great. Too big and grindy and it just feels like a half-assed MMO. Not sure I love the combat, the auto-style is kind of unexciting, but it feels like it actually puts you into it more this time compared to Chronicles X.