Nintendo announces Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition for Switch
Nintendo has announced that a remaster of Xenoblade Chronicles X will arrive on Switch next year, with updated visuals and additional story content.
The details:
The game's Definitive Edition was announced on Tuesday with a new trailer, giving fans their first look at the makeover that Monolith Soft's 2015 title has received. Not much is known about the remaster, but the official store page states that it will include "newly added story elements and more," similar to previous Xenoblade re-releases.
X, seen as a spiritual successor to the original Xenoblade Chronicles, tells a standalone story set during an alien war in 2054, with players taking on the role of a member of a group known as BLADE. “The year is 2054. Earth has been destroyed by an intergalactic war between two alien races, and humanity is on the brink of annihilation,” the description reads. “A small number of survivors, aboard the USS White Whale, crash land on the vast and untamed planet Mira—and now it falls to you, as a member of BLADE, to help bring humanity back from the edge of extinction…with the aid of powerful giant robots called Skells!”
With the re-release of X, all Xenoblade titles are now available on Switch, and the action RPG franchise has quickly become popular among Nintendo fans since its Wii debut. Tetsuya Takahashi, the series' creator, previously stated that he would like to bring X to the Switch as, like many other Wii U games, it was overlooked due to the console's commercial failure, but cited concerns regarding the budget a remaster would require due to the game’s large size.
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