Finally, after years of waiting & asking, Nintendo’s Xenoblade Chronicles is releasing on Nintendo Wii & delivers one of the finest Japanese RPG experiences of the generation.
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).
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.
I have to correct some things.
"There was once a time when the Japanese RPG was a major & key genre to the video game industry."
Now more than ever.........
" A title like Square Enix’s Final Fantasy would give a home console an advantage as the franchise would draw fans & help push hardware sales."
Square enix is not the only company for japanese rpgs, unlike western rpgs were you can count the devs on 1 hand..........there's over 20 devs who make japanese rpgs........, and now with portables being more popular than consoles ever where this gen square enix has put out more japanese rpgs THAN EVER this gen..........way more than they ever did, they spread the wealth now.
" However, over the years, the Japanese RPG has begun to fall out of favor in the western market as Western RPGs begin to dominate with franchises like Elder Scrolls taking helm as the dominate RPG series."
Not even remotely true......lets put this in perspective...........ff 13 outsold mass effect 1 and 2 combined.......mass effect 3 hasn't even sold more 13-2 so do you really want to go there? Pokemon black white worldwide has CRUSHED, worldwide elder scrolls sales, most particularly in the US...........
"Though Final Fantasy still retains relevance in today’s market, other Japanese RPGs have not fared as well. New titles like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, or White Knight Chronicles have failed to achieve high acclaim amongst gamers for varying reasons."
Actually all 3 have.........
blue dragon was so popular it got 3 sequels, same with white knight chronicles.......lost oddessy continues to be a cult classic.