XCOM Chimera Squad's Tutorial Mission

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

The Introductory tutorial mission for XCOM Chimera Squad is better designed than bothe XCOM EU/EW's and XCOM 2's put together.

XCOM EU/EW's tutorial was linear and hand heldy yes but at least it was NOT integral to the game's "Story". It introduces us to the game's mechanics of course but it didn't contain any elements directly tied to the game's story.

XCOM 2's was again too linear and hand holdy but this time it also adds a few story details that you'd miss once you play the game unaided. Things like introducing Jane Kelly to us, an important detail for Chimera Squad. At least the Devs further developed Jane's character as well as the two other lambs to the slaughter in XCOM 2's tutorial with the TLP DLC pack.

Then comes Chimera Squad and its better tutorial which although still linear, at least wasn't holding the player's hand too much and doesn't introduce any story details you might miss when you don't enable the tutorial. Once you start the game in no tutorial mode the game starts you off right after the mayor gets killed and the ingame cinematics starts off with the APC returning to HQ. Once in base the player is briefed on the situation dropping important details but swaps the explanation to Chimera Squad's failure in the tutorail for 31PD's instead so you don't miss out on important details.


Again back to XCOM 2. With the tutorial off the game still starts you off on the tutorial's cut scenes includong the Skyranger scene with both Ossei and his partner, the two soldiers you lose in the tutorial. It would've made better sense had that scene been removed for a non tutorial start eliminating a story continuity anomaly. Also it is a bit jarring for the cutscene to show the mission to acquire the commander when our no tutorial start gives us a mission to blow something up, unless the no tutorial mission WAS SUPPOSED TO BE a diversion to confuse ADVENT as his team rescues the commander. In which case recquired the player to come up to that conclusion *facepalm*