Monolith Soft's upcoming Wii U JRPG might not have a title just yet, but based on the game's mech-filled trailer, it's undoubtedly a new entry in the Xeno franchise. There's no word yet on any sort of release date, and we're hoping we won't have to fight to see a Western release as we did for Xenoblade Chronicles.
So, what do we know about the unnamed game? Well, lots of things, actually, the most important of them being that it might be an MMO. After rewatching the trailer several times, GamesRadar has highlighted every last interesting detail they could find. Here's what they have come up with...
Xenoblade Chronicles series composer Manami Kiyota has possibly finished the final orchestra recording for the next Monolith Soft title.
Makes sense. It's been nearly 3 years since the DLC for 3 came out. The next Xenoblade or whatever they end up calling it will probably come out next year.
NE: "Today, we're taking on the difficult task of ranking every single game in the Xenoblade Chronicles series from best to least best."
For me, Xenoblade 2 and 3 and Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth are the best JRPGs or RPGs in general ever made. Yes, they even surpassed Expedition 33 in my honest opinion. Before, the Tales series was among my favorites, but I was very disappointed with their last game, Tales of Arise. Its world has become linear and not as expansive as their previous games. Fortunately, its battle gameplay is still very good. I hope that in the next Tales game, they will expand the game even more.
Hoping for a new Xenoblade game from Monolith Soft in this year's Nintendo General Direct. And it should be a Switch 2 exclusive.
Yeah, Xenoblade 2 and 3 are amazing. I would have put Xenoblade 2 in first and 3 in second if I was ranking them.
The "worst" Xenoblade game is still better than 95% of games out there. Xenoblade 2 is my favorite rpg ever. All the Xenoblade games have incredible characters, soundtracks, voice acting, stories, world design and combat (save for Xenoblade 1 whose combat, while good, is not incredible).
Nintendo wants Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft to have a central role in the development of the next Legend of Zelda game.
They had a central role in developing Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
Probably. After how well those 2 games sold I doubt they'll ever go back to the more traditional style games. Doesn't matter to me which one they make.
Wasn’t it always? Ocarina of time was also open world no? Was there any zelda game that was linear?
They didn't. Literally read the article, or anything about the interview posted in the past couple days.
Mono had minimal involvement in Skyward Sword, joined into BOTW halfway during production, and only TOTK is where they were actually there from the start.
They proved they can do both. The made two new Xenoblades on the Switch and ported over two older entries. While helping with two Zelda games. Which will never not be insane to me.
for sure :) I want them to announce their new RPG for SW2! Xenoblade is one of my favorite series of all time
Maybe I will enjoy Zelda games once more if they take over and remake the series into an RPG
An MMO...?
Well, as long as it can be played off line, doesn't require a subscription.
That was a great breakdown analysis. There was quite alot going on in the video and some stuff I missed, like the aerial attacks and the Mech name "Doll". I cant wait, this game is going to be really amazing. Now all we need is to find out what Retro and Mistwalker are working on and the hype train will be in full effect.
"Everything we know about Monolith Soft's Wii U JRPG"
It looks friggin amazing!!!.
Seriously though we know very little atm, but I think we can all agree if its anything like Xenoblade chronicles it's going to be awesome.
Looks more like Monster Hunter than an MMO to me. Hopefully its the former because i dont think that people want an MMO thats plagued with micro transactions or subscription fees.
Whats impressive about the video is the draw distance i never seen anything like that on the last generation of consoles.
i knew i recgonized the style of music on the trailer
hiroyuki sawano made the OST of team medical dragon, which is awesome!
http://youtu.be/EGpWny29ilA
PS: it would be cool is shulk is in it, but you know what would be cooler? dunban and "7th"