Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch

Be careful to Just play a few hours Daily because the History is gonna turn so good.

It’s such a magnificent game. It may have originated on GameCube, but great design never looks obsolete.

I never had the chance to play this on the Wii. I am glad it was ported over to the switch for multiple reasons, but the primary being that it is now a portable game. Xenoblade Chronicles offers a moderately in depth aspect to a really easy to play storyline with a different feel. It has some great Character development and you can get lost in the sidequests for hours. Which leads to the only thing I do not like, that is the huge maps that you have to spend hours running across to complete the sidequests early on. But if you are looking for a time wasting post apocalyptic world to live in, Get this game! ESRB rating is Teen.

I played this game for the first time on Wii about six years ago and it instantly became one of my all time favorites. The setting, story, world design, characters, music, art direction, and combat system all came together to make it one of those games that you will always remember. The only really negative things I can say about a now 10 yr. old Wii game are the SD graphics look bad in some places, especially the character models, and the very basic quest log can make some sidequests a pain. If the graphics and quest structure were the only things to get major overhauls for this Definitive Edition release I would have been satisfied with that. I considered the game near perfect as it was. They aren't though. Extra epilogue content was added, loading times are way faster, menus are cleaner, the user interface is improved. They even took what was one of my favorite video game soundtracks ever and remastered it with mostly amazing results. Put simply, they took an already classic game and made it better. Buy it. If you enjoy games beyond the casual Mario Kart with friends but you've never played it, it deserves your attention. Even if you have played it I consider the upgrade big enough to rediscover why this game is rightfully held up as a cult classic.

Now a lot of people have debated whether this is considered a remake or not. I can tell you that many agree that it is. Character models and textures were redone with the Xenoblade 2 engine. With better refinement that addressed the issues the engine had. Many people have been making a big deal about the lower resolutions in handheld mode. Yeah, it dips but it’s not nearly as bad as everyone is making it seem. It’s not nearly as bad as 2 was in handheld mode. A bunch of pointless drama that was brought up for YouTube clickbait/views. If you have a Switch lite, the higher ppi makes it look great in handheld mode. So that would be the most ideal way to play it in handheld if you want it to look as good as possible.

I never played this when it was on the Wii so I decided to pick it up for the Switch. While some of the monster models have less details vs. a more recent game such as Xenoblade 2 the graphics are still quite good. The scale of the game is massive and the gameplay despite being 10 yrs old fits right in with the games today. Finally got around to playing it and 30 hrs in it has me hooked. I would recommend this to anyone who loves RPGs.

It is a very good game with a very good story! If you like anime you will like this game a lot but if you don’t it will be a bit or miss.It has standard jrpg troupes and concepts but they do them really well and it is enjoyable . Gameplay is very addictive and the enimes are very hard most of the times . That or I just suck at the game . But over all 9/10 olny thing I didn’t like was the resolution in handheld mode It was fuzzy .

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition is the best version of one of the best JRPGs of all time. The game is remade from the ground up with newer models along with its soundtrack. A lovable cast of characters part of a grand story with numerous twists that make you dying to play. With over hundreds of hours of gameplay, the game is more than worth your $60.