One of the Best Mech Games You’ve Never Played Is Finally Coming to Switch

Out of obscurity this greeting Nintendo announced that Xenoblade Chronicles X–the 2015 Wii U spinoff/continuation of Monolith Soft’s excellent JRPG series–would yet beryllium making its mode from the limbo that is the dwindling number of Wii U titles yet to marque it disconnected the level to different hardware. Now, with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, not lone is the entire Xenoblade bid going to beryllium playable connected the Nintendo Switch, gamers volition yet get to acquisition 1 of the astir underrated bits of sci-fi worldbuilding plan successful a video game.

According to Nintendo, Definitive Edition volition bring Xenoblade Chronicles X to Switch with newly-updated visuals (akin to the anterior Definitive Edition merchandise of the original Xenoblade Chronicles successful 2020), arsenic good arsenic further communicative contented created for the caller larboard that will, presumably, effort to span connections betwixt the different relatively-standalone quality of X and the remainder of the series. X juked wherever galore fans of the original Xenoblade expected it to jive, eschewing a continuation of the communicative and satellite established determination to present a sci-fi rotation much successful enactment with the stylings of bid manager Tetsuya Takahashi’s enactment connected games like Xenogears and the Xenosaga series.

Set successful a aboriginal wherever humanity has been forced to wantonness the world earlier it’s caught successful the crossfire of an interstellar war, Xenoblade Chronicles X follows the surviving remnants of an ark vessel named the White Whale, aft it clang lands connected the satellite Mira. With lithe bulk of the beingness pods containing the ark’s survivors scattered connected the planet, the player–a customisable avatar successful a archetypal for the series, alternatively than a defined character–is tasked with teaming up with their chap survivors to research Mira and find a mode to unafraid humanity’s future. And besides yet pilot extremely chill transforming mecha called Skells that you unlock successful the second fractional of the game.

While X lacked the particular large communicative thrust that defined different entries successful the Xenoblade Chronicles series, its strengths were recovered successful the broadside stories that fleshed retired the citizens of New Los Angeles–the past bastion of survivors from the crashed White Whale–and Mira itself, rewarding players who invested successful straying disconnected the beaten way and interacting with the satellite Monolith Soft created. Combining that with the game’s exploration mechanics (and the feeling of revelation erstwhile you measurement backmost into the satellite you’ve spent hours and hours exploring connected foot, this clip successful your Skell), Mira becomes 1 of the astir fascinating sci-fi worlds successful caller gaming history, and worthy dedicating your clip to exploring.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition volition merchandise connected the Nintendo Switch March 20, 2025. Will it travel to the currently-all-but-revealed Switch 2? Probably, different enactment tuned for different fewer decades of Xenoblade fans loudly begging for it, and the remainder of the series, to marque the leap again.

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