It's Reyn time!

So finally finished Xenoblade Chronicles and I must say this is the largest, biggest most epic RPG I've played. The story is in depth and the character development is brilliant. In my opinion it isn't one of the most interesting stories I've played in my RPG experiences, although, there are enough twists to keep you want to progressing. The British voice acting is very much a matter of opinion, a friend said it was one of the worst he had come across whereas Hubby loved the cockney accents. Personally I got use to the voices and kind of liked the fact that they were accents from jolly old Britain!
The story is based on two giant robot kind of guys, frozen in battle...apparently gods, and your just a little man that lives on his foot, not like clinging on, the Mechonis and Bionis are huge and have working ecosystems. The Mechon guys attack the Humans and cue giant adventure of revenge and intrigue. 
The leading man in this story is Shulk, a quiet science guy more at home in his lab then swinging a sword.Not my cup of tea for a leading man but character development insured he didn't fail to have some bad ass moments. Reyn is a clumsy guy who is good at being the tank, he has more muscles then brains but in a loveable way. He is probably one of my faves out the lot. Sharla grated on me quite a bit and until the very end seemed to be oblivious to Reyn's love for her. Between Gadoit and Juju she didn't seem to have much of her own personality. More annoying then Sharla was Fiora but only in human form, she is such a dick at the very start and then end of the game. I'm surprised they went through turning her into one of the most rocking awesome fighters into that whingy girl again. She had first dibs on Shulk and lost them to Melia! Then she swans back in to steal him away, poor Melia. Melia is the typical magic girl of the group. I liked her and Shulk together, bit gutting when it was taken away. She had one of the best character development story-lines and I felt the most emotion for the character. Dunban is badass, the end. Rikki started annoying but somehow I turned out liking his humour quite a lot.
The game took me 85 hours to complete and I finished at level 82, so if you are looking for a quick RPG to blast through at the weekend then this is not the game for you....I think I started this game in May or June.
My fave thing in a game is sidequests and so was pleasantly surprised when I had too many! Seriously they were everywhere. Think I must have done over 200 of them but they were all good fun. The visuals in this game are epic and although the close up character models are a bit old school the endless scenery is beautiful.
This is one of the biggest games I have played that is not a MMO and so it is a good game to get your teeth into if you are waiting for the next monolith game.