Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Direct 11.7.2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hb0KmH2WBQ
Nice to finally find out what the deal is with Angela Balzac, but I'm kinda disappointed that she's neither a rival character's Blade nor a Blade that can also Driverself. Kinda confirms that the cast distribution is pretty reminiscent of Shining Tears with how much females exist as walking macguffins versus characters with agency, and this disappoints me greatly (I think the named midboss is also female, but aside from her and Catgrrl, its dudes and their waifus all the way down). Still likely to be better about it than Star Ocean 5 was or anything Level 5 ever put out at least.
I did enjoy the Splatoon style retro-minigame bit and hope that other characters have fairly involved upgrade mechanics that help to further distinguish themselves.
Changing landscapes seem nice, but it'll remain to be seen just how well it gets implemented (also, lol at literally swimming through the clouds).
Potential Spoilers Edit:
So I was looking at the title card art and some of the web site when I put 2 and 2 together. There's going to be six Drivers for your party. With the direct spelling out 4 of them (Rex, Cat Grrl, Nopon, Eye Patch), the other two are the Midboss Lady (kinda obvious really, especially since her Blade isn't Dominatrix enough to be an antagonist) and a yet-to-be-shown Pompadour Beast Dude complete with a Hawk Blade (a LadyHawke perhaps?).
Fucking FINALLY Edit: As of the Direct, the CE finally went up for sale in B&M (they could've done a better job of denoting that it hadn't gone up prior to yesterday).