Xenoblade Chronicles 2 developer Monolith Soft has revealed that all players will soon be eligible to receive a selection of in-game goodies as part of a celebration for the upcoming Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country expansion.
As you'll no doubt be aware if you're a keen player of the game, the new expansion is releasing this Friday for owners of the Expansion Pass, and next Friday (21st September) for everyone else. The in-game goodies on offer come in the form of bonus items which can be used in the main game - not the expansion. The items are:
- Legendary Core Crystal x15
Pouch items:
- Char-Grilled Grumbirds x3
- Crispy Blendshake x3
- Clicky-Clacks x3
The best news is that these items aren't exclusive to those who have purchased the expansion pass, or even those who buy the DLC separately. All Xenoblade Chronicles 2 players can get their hands on the items, simply by registering the game with My Nintendo. Doing so will automatically register you into a database to receive the items, and you should find an email sitting in your inbox sometime after the 14th with a download code to redeem.
In order to receive the gift, you must do the following things:
- Redeem your points on My Nintendo. If you purchased the game through the eShop you're all set - the game will have been automatically registered. If you treated yourself to a retail copy, make sure you've manually redeemed your My Nintendo points for the title. If you haven’t done so already, hover over Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on the Home Menu and press + or – to access the Options screen. Select 'My Nintendo Rewards Programme', and click on 'Earn Points' to register.
- Make sure your Nintendo Account is set to receive emails from Nintendo. If you've activated your game, the next step is to head over to the Nintendo Account website, go to Other Settings > Emails from Nintendo, and make sure 'Recommendations about games, events, special offers, and more' is set to 'Yes'. Going to all this trouble and having your email settings turned off would be highly frustrating!
Will you be grabbing these free gifts for yourself? Let us know if you'll be keeping an eye on that inbox over the next few days - we hope these instructions are useful!
[source perfectly-nintendo.com]
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I loved the game but never bothered buying the DLC and going back to it after I beat it. The physical copy of Torna has persuaded me though.
I haven't dipped into the expansion pass yet so this is wonderful news indeed. I will be getting the physical edition, but as I'll be out of town a few months more I'm glad to hear that I can just open an email to add it to my current gaming experience.
A nice bonus if you're coming back to the game after not playing it for a while, which'll be my situation when I get the DLC on physical gamecart.
You can farm the core crystals in-game at a later point anyway and the blade-rolling mechanics are fairly well understood at this point.
whoop
@Spectra
Yep! Either that or you and I have the worst luck in the world
@BenAV
I agree and am in the same boat since I learned this is a standalone game. I seldom do DLC, plus I've been too busy with all manner of other games since I beat vanilla XC2.
So, wait...does that mean that, as someone who bought a used copy of the game for which points had already been redeemed, I won’t be able to access the freebies? Bummer...
is it me or does shulks design look really effing stupid
@boop22 Probably you, because he looks really good in Xenoblade 2's artstyle. This is the same guy who designed characters for Xenogears, Xenosaga I and II, and Xenoblade X as well as redesigning KOS-MOS, Fiora, and Elma for Xenoblade 2.
@Jezebel95 No. Every new file can use these items. If you start a new game, you can get the items again.
If you start NG+, you won't. But by then you can get Legendary Cores out the ass.
@EvilLucario but the article says you need to register the game with My Nintendo to get a code for this stuff via email. How can they do that if their used copy is registered via a different email address?
@EvilLucario Not if those points have been redeemed already. You can only redeem them once. (I'm about 99% sure of this).
Aside from that, this is a sweet bonus - even if I will undoubtedly get nothing but common blades out of it. 😣
Ah, I admittedly skimmed through and assumed it would be handled like the DLC. Sorry.
Regardless, if you miss it you miss it, no big deal.
Interesting, so this in a way works similar to how the Smash 3DS demo was given out back in 2014. Must be soon time for Nintendo Life Smash demo code begging round 2
I bought my copy used. I will have to confirm I was able to register it.
but will I finally get KOS-MOS after 200 hours?
Could have some overdrive protocols in...
Not too sure I can get back into this game again. I finished it twice and, well, I think that's more than enough Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for me.
Plus, I have seven more stories in Octopath to finish up. Just finished Primrose's story earlier tonight.
I would prefere some items for poppy... Even after 10+ hours of TigerTiger I still don't have all the mods...
@mazzel why are you still playing tigertiger? NG+ has traders that give you 20000 crystals for relatively little (by lvl 99 standards) bexp. AFAIK if you have the dlc tigertiger isn't needed for anything but one of the poppi's affinity trees
@Monado_III
I didn´t start NG+ because I wanted to start it with a complete save... Anyway, can I buy EVERYTHING for poppy with the christals? I remember in the normal game I could only get the following items by TigerTiger:
Elemental Core: Light
Master Tank Mod
Master Evasion Mod
Master Muscle Mod
Master Strike Mod
Master Ether Mod
Master Luck Mod
I don´t care so much about the Master Mods, but I want to have all the elemental cores...
@Spectra Dang, you beat me to it.
Cool, I'm at the endgame of my current (non-NG+) playthrough, not quite there on being able to farm legendary core crystals yet, so +15 is a nice little bonus for now. There's a couple reasonably-common rare blades I'm still missing so hopefully that'll help me grab at least one of those (but no big deal if not, I've still got like 30 others to complete affinity charts for!)
There has been so many addition to the game since the vanilla version... It feels like it is getting better every month.
I left it half way through the NG+ and It'll be awesome to get back to it in a few months
@mazzel You 100% can get the light core in NG+ with Bexp as well as the master mods, there are different npcs for those though
Ehhhh, this bonus is ok, but overall kind of meh.
I'd recommend the automatic Arduran set up, which gives you like 15-20 ledgendary core crystals anyways at end game every 30 minutes for doing nothing input-wise. Only time I see this being helpful is early in the game. Otherwise, why bother?
@JasmineDragon That is likely 100% incorrect. The download code allows you to download a DLC entry from the Eshop, like the "New Items" pack, "New Quests" pack, or "Challenge Mode" pack. Then when that new DLC title is downloaded, the game will detect it when you have loaded the game and should allow your save file to claim the bonus. I have gotten my code and downloaded it already and cannot figure out how to claim the items however, the items were not automatically given to me and they do not show up in the Expansion Pass menu.
I haven't received any code for this content. Please help
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