Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country - Nintendo Switch

I highly suggest this jrpg! If you haven’t played xenoblade Chronicles 2 then you should try this one out to see how amazing the games story is!

Xanoblade Chronicles is one of the best games played this year.

Torna the Golden country is easily the best expansion to a game I've ever played. It truly stands as a full prequel versus simple DLC. It refines and changes many aspects of the main Xenoblade Chronicles 2 game (which was my favorite switch game so far, and I've played most all games released on the system). It tells a truly riveting story with great, fast paced combat and a deep RPG system. I can't recommend it enough, especially for the price

Excellent prequel to Xenoblade Chronicles 2! This game easily clocks in at 20-40 hours of gameplay, depending on how you like to play your games. I highly recommend, as it contains a new battle system, relatable characters, and a story that adds even more depth to characters appearing and/or referenced in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country is a must own for the Switch!

Torna the Golden Country is an expansion of the Action RPG Xenoblade Chronicles 2, that tells of the story of what became of Torna and explains how all the events lead to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Compared to Xenoblade Chronicles 2, this expansion has a more refined story that focuses more on the characters than the epic story in the original game, to explain what happened to them and what their motives are in the future. The story brings out more personality of each character with witty and enjoyable dialog so that you can understand the characters traits and characteristics. Where in the original some characters may have felt left aside for the main story, especially with the huge amount of rare blades to collect. The combat is more refined with more focused roles for each character and more team attacks in combination with your character and their blades. It loses some flexibility since you cannot equip any blade to your characters, but in exchange feels more active and allows you to create new combinations when switching blades during combat. Overall this is a great expansion that fills in the gaps of the story in the original game, and was a more enjoyable experience to play with it's focused story and gameplay.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and I didn't think an expansion could improve upon the gameplay of the base game so much. The expansion took me about 20 to 25 hours to beat with doing a decent amount of side activities. The story was great, as to be expected from a Xenoblade Chronicles game. The music remixes made by Yasunori Mitsuda and the other composers are a wonderful addition, especially the jazzy Gormott theme. They improved on the gameplay in nearly every way, from the vanguard switch to harvest points showing what type of material you would recieve. Torna improves upon the mechanics of the base game in every way. Torna can be played seperately from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but I would recommend playing it after beating the base game to have a better understanding of the characters and the world. It is a solid recommendation for me and is one of my favorite games of the year.

You do not need to own Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in order to play this. It's its own physical game. However, if you do own XC2 but didn't buy the Season Pass, this game gives you a code to get all the released Season Pass goodies. So if you choose to get XC2 after completing this it's a nice bonus. That's pretty cool. The story itself isn't as strong as XC2, but it gives the perfect amount of backstory that sets up the events of XC2. And I greatly appreciate these characters. Especially seeing how they were shaped by this backstory. Gameplay wise, it's such a huge step forward. The QoL updates are hugely appreciated. So much so that I hope they add them to the main game. Combat is so much better and smoother. Sadly healing seems to have gone the wrong way. It relies almost solely on switching between characters. There are moments when the AI creates healing potions when I don't need them. But when I desperately need them, the AI ignores it. So I either have to main healer or risk not getting any heals. One of the rare games where I feel being overleveled is needed. Crafting on the go is huge. You can jump to any campfire on the map and make all kinds of items. Granted you collected enough materials while exploring. My only gripe about this is that I wish making key items was faster. It takes footwork to get the materials and is free. Compared to XC2 where you need to buy all the items from a shop before key items are unlocked. Do you need to buy this expansion? I'd say 50/50. If you own XC2 and just want the extra backstory, sure. While it's not required, it's a good bonus to have. Don't have XC2 but want to get into it? Sure. Ultimately it's up to you.

XC2 was an amazing game. Not too far into this game but the combat is just as fun and enjoying the story that took place before the main game. It is a stand-alone game so having the XC2 is not necessary!