It usually infuriates me when people comment and say "Put it on PS3 and I'll buy it," but with this game (even though that's impossible) at least if it were coming to PS3, I could play it. Region locks and moronic COOs... Nintendo, we're through.

... I still love you, Nintendo... for now.

The scores for this game puzzle me a bit, ive tried it, and it feels a bit awkward.

You do battle in this game by selecting an opponent, and then choosing from a selection of skills, while your character is hacking away uncontrolled at the enemy's, all you can do is circle around the enemy and watch how the fight unfolds....

While i must admit, the plot is awesome, society's living on huge golems, fighting out a rivalry that once belonged to the golems themselves.
However the battle system seems to be very simple and lacking in control, while the areas are large, but flat and dull.

Large areas done right can be found in the Elder scroll series, where the environment is always filled with lush tree's, plants and wild life.
In Xenoblade however its just open areas with some trees or a rock here and there.
Same with the city's, all the buildings are way too far from each other, making strolling around a pain to endure.
It also gives an very empty feeling to the city's.

Ofcourse each to their own, if you enjoy this game, go for it, but to me this game doesnt feel right.

It is pretty awesome,..
@Fox ,.. It really gets a lot deeper with time,..

I would not mind to see it in HD with AA and aniso,.. /I don't even mind texture reso and low poly count as much,../ It would look just so much more beautiful with some AA and aniso,..If nothing else,.. interface would take a bit less of the screen vs gameplay, if it was higher res,..not much but still

Otherwise,.. I think leg? actually looks aesthetically better then FF13's pulse? by a mile,.. Some scenery is just breathtaking,..

I am also playing with wiimote,.. so perhaps I am half-assing it,.. because camera control without the second stick,.. is well not the best think ever made,. but the game is beautiful and really deep,..

Really well thought out game,..on so many levels,.. Apparently it is totally Ninteno's ip ,..but would not mind seeing something of this magnitude on PS Vita,..

I envy you guys who have played this game...

I only have seen awesome things about this game from gamers/reviews.

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.

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.

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).

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.