Xenoblade X Art Designers Created the Game's Armor Sets with Samurai in Mind

Samurai and Ninja are interchangeable now?

@Tsuchinoko If you mean pop-culture Ninjas, than yes

I think calling these armor sets Ninja or Samurai is a tad far fetched. If anything, they draw more influence what pop-culture calls a "cyborg Ninja".
Basically the same route WarFrame went.

But all in all, i like the art direction this game took. Armor in Xenoblade was all over the place in terms of style and never really had an overarching theme. You went from native american to space marine to swim gear and back to hiking gear all the time.

@Tsuchinoko Haha, apparently! The first thing I thought of when I saw that art was Raiden from Platinum's Metal Gear game, so I went with it! I still really hope that gets a sequel...

I've had a personal rule when playing video games ever since I was a dumb little kid: "when choosing a character/vehicle/outfit/whatever in a video game, functionality is irrelevant. ALWAYS choose the coolest-looking one."

Now that I'm a dumb adult playing Xenoblade X, my party is totally decked out in badass-yet-probably-not-at-all-effective gear, and I couldn't be happier!

I like the design style of Xenoblade, there was much awesome done by the Monolith designers

There is SO much to do in Xenoblade Chronicles X it is immensely staggering to think about. I'm 20 hours in and on chapter 4, level 20 and hardly even scratched the surface. It's kind of difficult to pinpoint something to work towards with so many options. I kind of miss the strong characters like the first game had. Silent protagonist is awkward.

@Zach777 I agree, definitely felt the plot was a weak point in this game. Just forgettable, Sci-fi B-movie stuff. But, apparently that was intentional, so the team could focus more on improving the gameplay.

@kurtasbestos I thought I heard this game gives you the option to appear in one armor set while using the stats from another one. Any truth to that? I'd love to be able to have the female characters run around in bikinis all day while still being able to tank hits like they're in full armor.

EDIT: Oh, Tsurii space ninja'd me.

@Tsurii What's wrong with typical shounen archetypes? Sometimes things are popular not because they're cliché but because they work.

This game is fantastic. I've played 30 hours since Friday. That is insane when I think about it.

Wait you can use another armor as fashion? Ugh, now I feel even worse for accidentally selling Elma's starting shirt.

Kinda makes me think of Gray Fox in MGS1 like cyborg ninja style.

@BulbasaurusRex u read my mind! I remember when vaguely reading through the manual u could set fashion armor that uses the same look but different stats of other armour. Cutscenes with bikinis is what I want to see.

Fashion gear for the win! I do sometimes remove the fashion armour to give them the "armour" look but now you can make them seem like wearing anything while actually having stats of your best armour.

From swimsuits, to punk style, anything goes. Or just make them roll with their original armour throughout the game. Or the special equipment like the School Blazer, or the full suit as one of the quest rewards.

Currently I am going with Team Swag

@AVahne

I already sold everyone's starting equipment as well. I do think however that you might eventually get a palette swap or a very similar piece of equipment later on in the game appearance wise. Same thing happened near the end of Xenoblade with a lot of armour being similar in appearance to the originals they had.

IIRC, the armor from that pic is in the game, just not the weapon. If the armor isn't in the game, something very similar is.

@kurtasbestos Same, I'd rather have the game be a little harder than have my characters look dorky. In SMT IV, I used the black demonica, the standard beginning armor, for the entire game, cause I didn't like the look of anything else...

Space Ninjas I'm in.

@Tsurii No I'm not joking, I thought the characters in Xenoblade Chronicles were great (well except Riki, and the nopon clan); Just because someone has a different opinion than you regarding characters and how they are written doesn't mean you have to light into them. Calm down , man. I liked the game as did many others; some didn't (so what?). The game was good enough in my opinion to warrant purchasing the Wii version and playing through it twice, and later the New 3DS version and playing through that again. Different people like different things.

@Yorumi
Thank you. Now I'll know what to do. But do you hit X with the fashion armor equipped and choose the stat armor, or do you hit X with the stat armor equipped and choose the fashion?

@JaxonH. When you are in the party ground hear menu, pick a character and an armor piece and press X. You will have several options, one being set fashion hear, something like that. When that's selected you will have the menu to select what you want your appearance to look like.