Oh neat you're playing Zero Escape? 999 and VLA have quickly become some of my favorite games, hope you enjoy them!!!

Seems like I'm just overthinking things.
It'll probably be another few weeks/months before I actually play it but i'm looking forward to it a bit more, thanks to you.

Thanks for your answers!
I'm glad that you can keep some stuff in a NG+ but it still sounds like beating all routes will be a pain.
I dunno... I've had no problems with playing through all routes in Fates. I think the school part hasn't really convinced me yet.

I'm planning on playing through the three (and a half) story routes of FE:TH myself at some point and I have two questions about it:
1. Is it possible to 'jump back' to the decision point for the church route, or do you have to create a second save file right before the decision?
2. Does NG+ offer anything to accelerate the second and third playthroughs? I'm not exactly looking forward to play the school part three times...

That's exactly one of the reasons why I'm not eager to play New Game+. T-elos alone is going to be a huge pain in the arse.

Fuck my life, I didn't know about that. Oh well, the probability of me doing a new game+ run was always rather low to begin with...
The bonus EXP is only one of the reasons why I'm overleveled, since I tend to run all over the titans picking a fight with everything and everyone. If I lose: So be it. But if I win I'll gain some nice loot and EXP which level me up some more, after which I can fight more powerful monsters. It's a vicious circle.

It's not bad, but there was a really obvious attempt to make the game more like Dark Souls. Problem is, Dark Souls is intentionally slow and methodical, and Darksiders uses that Platinum style of fast combat, and the two styles really do clash. Boss fights in particular are less about strategy and reflexes and more often turn into wars of attrition.

It also takes the interconnected world and lack of map from Dark Souls, but the world isn't nearly as easy to navigate, so it ends up being tricky figuring out where to go next, even with waypoints. There's no reason this game shouldn't have a map.

So yeah, not a bad game but it really does have an identity (maybe a confidence) problem. Maybe they've just been away for too long.

Honestly: It could go either way. The first XC is one of my all-time favourites while Xenoblade Chronicles X was a HUGE disappointment.
But XC2 isn't just a sequel in name but uses many things from XC1 which is a godsend. Of course I don't like everything about it, like the sidequests which are a bit too fetch questy, or that the game forces you to train all kinds of different blades if you want to get all treasures and see the whole map.
But I already like the characters and the story and that is the most important thing in an RPG (for me at least).
Yeah, the game taught me about chain attacks yesterday and it decimated the boss I was using it against. I don't even want to know what happens when you have nine blades and endgame characters.

Really cool Danganronpa set you have! (Especially Kyoko, she's my personal favorite.)

Even though I think you're right I just can't stop to play. This game has a strange effect on me.