Game really needs to be ported to a more popular system.
My feelings: lovely world and art design, fun and addicting combat. Though 1st Xenoblade overall is better, just more focused and, while containing many anime clichés, contained 100% less Tatsu. And had a better story.
Great premise but the actual story, from what I played (about 25 hrs) seemed weak.
Freakin' potato-alien-thing Tatsu is very nearly a game-ruining character. Him and the 13 yr old Engineer girl, Lin, who is always making sick jokes about cooking him for dinner... Uggggggh.
Hated having to track down my party members to swap them out of the party. That and the random positioning of the loyalty mission markers really burned me. And not being able to turn off the repetitive town music...
The annoyances were enough to put me off after a while. But this is a huge and beautiful game, all things considered.