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''Xenoblade Chronicles X'', a spiritual successor to the original game, was initially teased as "X" by Monolith Soft as their next project in early 2013. The successor's title was finalized during the 2014 E3 Digital Event and released for [[Wii U]] in Japan on April 29th, 2015 and on December 4th, 2015 for the Americas, Europe and Australia. ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' is set on the planet Mira, an alien-populated world where humans have established their home after the Earth was undesirably destroyed in a war between two opposing alien factions. Players can customize their main character's appearance and voice with a wide array of options. The game features battle mechanics similar to the original ''Xenoblade Chronicles'', with emphasis on its Arts system and interactions with party members. Characters can use both melee and ranged weapons and can pilot humanoid mechs called Skells to fight and traverse the game's enormous world, complete with smaller supplementary tools to aid in exploration and discovery. ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' is the largest game on the Wii U, weighing in at over 23 gigabytes digitally and at one point almost needing a second disc to fit in all of its content. The game was generally praised by critics for its freedom and wider tools for exploration, but fans were more divided at the drastic shift from a focus on story as well as its soundtrack and UI. | ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'', a spiritual successor to the original game, was initially teased as "X" by Monolith Soft as their next project in early 2013. The successor's title was finalized during the 2014 E3 Digital Event and released for [[Wii U]] in Japan on April 29th, 2015 and on December 4th, 2015 for the Americas, Europe and Australia. ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' is set on the planet Mira, an alien-populated world where humans have established their home after the Earth was undesirably destroyed in a war between two opposing alien factions. Players can customize their main character's appearance and voice with a wide array of options. The game features battle mechanics similar to the original ''Xenoblade Chronicles'', with emphasis on its Arts system and interactions with party members. Characters can use both melee and ranged weapons and can pilot humanoid mechs called Skells to fight and traverse the game's enormous world, complete with smaller supplementary tools to aid in exploration and discovery. ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' is the largest game on the Wii U, weighing in at over 23 gigabytes digitally and at one point almost needing a second disc to fit in all of its content. The game was generally praised by critics for its freedom and wider tools for exploration, but fans were more divided at the drastic shift from a focus on story as well as its soundtrack and UI. | ||
''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'', a new game in the series, was revealed during the Nintendo Switch presentation in January 2017. Tetsuya Takahashi understood the criticisms | ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'', a new game in the series, was revealed during the Nintendo Switch presentation in January 2017. Tetsuya Takahashi understood the criticisms that fans had about the previous entry on Wii U regarding the shift away from a rich story among other complaints, and thus he strove to address them in this title. The game features heavily anime-inspired character designs as opposed to the more realistic styles in ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' and ''Xenoblade Chronicles X''. Similarly to the former, the game takes place on the backs of gargantuan beings called Titans in a new world called Alrest. The story follows a young hot-blooded salvager named [[Rex]] as he sets out to take his friend Pyra home to Elysium, a paradise where humans lived in harmony with their divine father, the Architect, at the genesis of the world. The gameplay features a new party member dynamic where party members are either Drivers or Blades. Blades imbue Drivers with powers and weapons, while Drivers deploy said powers and weapons. Players can conjure new Blades by finding and touching Core Crystals, each with its own elemental and weapon typings. ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' was globally released for the Nintendo Switch on December 1, 2017. The game was lauded for bringing the focus back to a pure fantasy setting, a complex story filled with twists and turns, a return to the music score of the original game, a diverse voice cast, and a party of likable original characters along with the quality-of-life gameplay improvements to personalize the experience. An Expansion Pass would be developed and release its contents throughout 2018, including additional side quests, more options to customize the difficultly, familiar ''Xeno'' series characters as recruitable Blades, and an entire prequel campaign known as ''Torna: The Golden Country''. To commemorate the game’s launch, Rex’s Salvager Armor was also release as free equipment for Link in ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild''. | ||
==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''== | ==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''== | ||