Tom Phillips: "My time with the game gave me the basics of battling but still felt like nothing more than a picture postcard of the overall experience. What dialogue I encountered - from the main quest and a side-mission I picked up along the way - suggested a translation which was typically on point from the experienced hands at Nintendo of Europe, with characters chatting in charming and witty asides. The wider story, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2's wider world, remains shrouded in mystery - but I'm looking forward to another lesson in what more the game has to offer."
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).
NE: "We look at each Xenoblade Chronicles game's performance on Nintendo Switch and how each one would be impacted by a Switch 2 Edition or patch."
What makes it even sadder is that if you jailbreak your Switch 1, it actually runs those games better than the Switch 2. Since you can, on the fly, change the rendering resolution and overclock the device to handle it.
I’m currently playing Xenoblade X like that and it’s great, no FPS drops, and even in handheld mode, the game looks very clear. Though, I have to say, I’m still a bit divided on whether I like or dislike the changes they made from the Wii U version. On one hand, everything looks cleaner and the models feel more alive, but on the other hand, it looks less unique.
Saying X looks less unique is not something I ever expected to read. I think the character models look quite a bit better in the Switch version (not that I thought they looked bad in the Wii U version). The world and monster design are some of the best I've ever seen in video games though I'll still give a slight edge to Xenoblade 2's world design. Leftherian Archipelago is my favorite location in any video game from a visual standpoint followed closely by endgame of Xenoblade 1.
If you think the Switch version models look unique, I have dozens of anime titles to sell to you.
I was talking about the world and monster design being unique, not the character models. Guess I should have made that clearer.
Monolith Soft may be hinting at a remaster of its action role-playing game, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, for the Nintendo Switch 2.
They should update these games for the switch 2 hardware, might as well as we wait for the next new xenoblade game.
2 is my favorite in the series even though it's the one I have the most issues with.
So outside of a side by side comparison you would never notice a difference between the original title and the remaster?
It’s depressing how many people want to keep buying the SAME GAME on a new platform.
Because Disgaea 5 wasn't a thing?
Don't get me wrong, I'm more excited for Xenoblade 2 than for pretty much anything else RPG-related that has hit the system so far, but let's not forget that there are other RPG's on Switch that deserve mention, okay?
Wish I could play the first one on my Switch.