I just pre-ordered Xenosaga2
Having completed the import last year, I recommend all RPG fans to wait for reviews on this side of the pond before making any decision. And Gamefaqs reviews tend to be done by fans, so will be biased.
To keep things short, Xenosaga2 is:
(a) half-complete rubbish product
(b) crippled combat system. Techniques are useless compared to combos, so why don't the dev team just ditch the pretty but worthless eye-candy and focus resources on correcting (a) instead.
(c) Retarded G-campaign system. Sounds good in PR, garbage in implementation. After x events talk to 30 NPCs distributed over 10 locations to figure out which 10 has new quests. After y events talk to 60 NPCs(including previous 30) distributed over 15 locations(including previous 5) to find which 5 more has new quests. After z events talk to 90 NPCs(including previous 60) distributed over 25 locations(including previous 15) to find out which 10 more has new quests. It goes on and on, and there is no indication of when new quests are available, so the player makes a guess and hopes that all the running around talking to the same !@#$ 90 NPCs in the same !@#$ 25 locations again isn't in vain. Oh, and quite a number of the brain-dead quests are the 'find this thing/person somewhere in the world' variety, and said 'thing/person' only materializes after said quest is received. So player will be running around talking to the same *&^% 90 NPCs in the same *&^% 25 locations again and again.