Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii U VC) Discussion.

I was gifted a copy of XC3D over the holidays and finally finished it over the weekend. After hundreds of side quests I got the itch to push the story forward and ended up completing the game at 141 hours.

Wow, this game was incredible! After a rather rote RPG beginning dozen hours the game starts to give you twist after twist in the plot that really lends a unique feel to the story. Once the twists start coming, they don't really slow down all that much either, I felt. Despite all of the sidequests, of which I put tens of hours into completing, the main quest never felt terribly far removed from what I was doing.

The gameplay too was refreshing for me, as I've never been the biggest JRPG fan. There's got to be a real hook in turn based games, and a lot of variety in more real-time action based affairs to get me to perk up and pay attention. Xenoblade had that in spades. From the varied cast of characters' arts and the strategy needed in any given team to take down big baddies, battles usually felt fun rather than grindy.

I could go on and on about how much I enjoyed this, but I think my 141 hours speaks for itself.

While the straight-up anime character designs seen in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 do absolutely nothing for me, if the gameplay and story are on par with the first then I'll be interested.

i recently downloaded xenoblade chronicles on my wii u and have this issue that when i move forward shulk moves for a bit and the turns around and starts walking backwards, i have tried to uninstall and reinstall but i don't know how to fix it. Does anyone else have this problem and do you know how to fix it? Thanks

Have you ruled out the analog stick by playing a different game to see if it functions correctly there, or by using a different controller to see if the same issue happens?

A controller issue is most likely. Hard to think up another explanation. If it is the controller, I hope for your sake it's a nunchuk that went bad and not the Wii U gamepad's own analog stick (Should be supported for the digital version, since this game had Classic Controller support).

I don't have a point of reference because this is my first playthrough, but I have noticed some significant stuttering I wouldn't expect to be natural in such an esteemed game.

My recommendation is to install the game that you are currently playing on the internal memory if possible or an external USB flash drive. Yes, Wii U recognises external HDDs and that's extremely useful but if you have a USB flash drive copy the game and save file and try it.

Can Xenoblade Chronicles be played exclusively on the gamepad?

@LinktotheFuture Yes

@gcunit Great, thanks!