Strongest Blade in the Empire; completely worthless if the humidity is a bit high. When your kryptonite is the most common molecule on the planet, you're pretty garbage.
Strongest Blade in the Empire; completely worthless if the humidity is a bit high. When your kryptonite is the most common molecule on the planet, you're pretty garbage.
Its not that bad if she was kept for defense, given how arid the Empire's titan is.
It's just, she goes out and about while the more versatile Aegeon is kept at home for defense. Despite the Empire's enemy living in a titan that LIVES UNDERWATER.
Its not that bad if she was kept for defense, given how arid the Empire's titan is.
It's just, she goes out and about while the more versatile Aegeon is kept at home for defense. Despite the Empire's enemy living in a titan that LIVES UNDERWATER.
I'm just getting into the game, and building up your protagonist by having him humiliate a charismatic female antagonist by dumping a bucket of water on her is not the way to win me over. It turns her into a joke and makes him look like a punk.
So far Tora is the best character. He's fun and quirky and feels alot more useful than Rex.
I'm just getting into the game, and building up your protagonist by having him humiliate a charismatic female antagonist by dumping a bucket of water on her is not the way to win me over. It turns her into a joke and makes him look like a punk.
So far Tora is the best character. He's fun and quirky and feels alot more useful than Rex.
Poppi - and by extension Tora -is incredibly versatile in the early game but once your other Drivers start leveling, binding better Blades, and getting better equipment Poppi can quickly lose her utility. She takes so much work to build up through Tiger! Tiger! and that progression is locked to story completion. If you're willing to push yourself a bit you can tackle higher level enemies and start collecting much better loot for your other Blades then Popi will ever have access to at any given point in the game before the end.
Thankfully New Game+ helps alleviate this by allowing players to exchange XP for ether crystals. This cuts out so much of the work as it's exponentially easier to earn XP. You'll still have to grind Tiger! Tiger! drops for her best mods but those are hardly necessary. The worst part is that for the convenience to be worth much of anything you basically have to ignore her throughout your first play through after you get your Fourth Driver.
The other characters come into their own in time. Rex is a great all-rounder, especially later in the game. Pyra in particular gains a story-related power-up that when built and geared appropriately can make her and Rex nearly unstoppable. Nia's the best healer in the game and an excellent fit for ether cannons. The Fourth Driver makes for a nearly untouchable evasion tank with katanas, though that takes time and the proper Blades to work. The Fifth Driver is an incomparable melee powerhouse and also an excellent block tank with shield hammers. They're even more powerful in New Game+ with their new Affinity Chart.
Now if you're talking narratively then most of the characters don't develop very much over the course of the story. They're largely the same by the end as they were at the beginning. Monolith Soft unfortunately misses a number of opportunities to meaningfully build upon their characters in Xenoblade 2, but for what they're worth I still found them enjoyable.