If you can stomach the annoying commentary, here is a video of the first 30 minutes of Xenoblade Chronicles X in action , obviously some heavy spoilers for those who want to be completely in the dark.
For those who don't want to watch the video, here are some highlights:
The story begins when two alien empires begin a war with each other in the Sol System, one battle directly above Earth causes massive damage to the surface and mankind is forced to flee which causes them to get mixed up in the conflict. Only two known Ark Ships make it off the planet in one piece but one of them gets damaged and crash lands on a nearby planet. The main colony component survives but the various members of the population in hyperspace have been tossed about the planet in the various wreckage or killed. The game begins when the Elma finds the cryosleep capsule of the MC.
The MC is completely created by the player and appears to be a silent protagonist. You get to choose their gender, hair color, face, and voice in the beginning of the game. The video kind of brushes quickly over this feature but Monolith Soft says it is pretty robust.
Weapon attacks are split from long and short range attacks. The player character starts with a rifle and and blade. Using attacks build up TP which can be used to power up a characters Arts. Short range (risky) attacks raise TP faster than long range.
The player now has the ability to give out orders to their A.I. partners for specific actions like concentrated fire and so forth.
Though it's vague in the video, it looks like the player has the ability to charge Arts to get more powerful effects like extra bonuses for using the Shield ability or add special properties to attacks.
There are two sets of stats in the game, Character and Class. Character is based on their personal stats and gear whereas Class is based on which of the games classes you are using.
There is a class system, the player starts as a Drifter and then can access new classes on the class tree system which gives various roles similar to the roles of the various characters from Xenoblade. The player can change their class on the fly and doesn't have to just stick to one.
The main city is called Neo Los Angeles and in the beginning, only military personal are awake and running it. The player will have to track down other survivors lost in the wreckage like themselves to build up the city. This sounds like a more robust version of the Colony 6 sidequest from Xenoblade.
Game still uses the day/night cycle and has the various weather effects like Xenoblade.
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