Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Is Eating Up Views On YouTube

Yep guilty myself.
Never played that one (dont know why) my first entry was the last one on the switch.
Been watching the youtube videos (WiiU) and watched this trailer many times lol.

I mean the announcement of Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition wasn't in a Direct and the original Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition was, (which means many people already saw the trailer in the Direct instead of watching separately) so of course it has more views. Surprised this isn't a 'random' article.

@PikminMarioKirby
Was thinking the same thing. This shadow dropped out of nowhere, X1DE was bundled in a Direct. This also means that XCX isn't competing for attention in the press cycle alongside other announcements.

Hopefully, this will translate in the sales. While I prefer fantasy focused games, I feel society prefer science fiction games. It made me believe this remaster could become one of the best selling games of the franchise. It sold around 800K units on a console that sold 13.5 millions units, so it's certain to become a million seller! While it's my least favorite Xenoblade game, I still consider it a masterpiece and hope this second chance will boost this game popularity. I just hope the text will be visible this time, it was because the text was so tiny that I never finished the original...

@Dazman As opposed to Mario and Zelda that look like they were designed to impress little kids?

See how dumb this sounds? Your comment is idiotic.

And it’s well deserved. The WiiU trailers were pretty good back in the day. XCX is on the top of the franchise (debatable as I love 1&3)
Hell this IP is one of the most consistent regarding quality.

Between DQIII, Mario & Luigi and this- I've finally got my desire to game again back.

Xenoblade chronicles x is the best game I haven't finished. It's becouse of the controller's short battery life.

@NintendoNoLifer I hate to break it to you, but not everybody wants to play games designed for teenage boys.

@Dazman Yeah, you want to play games for kids.

I think it might have more views in the same amount of time than Metroid Prime 4

@RupeeClock Thanks for sharing, and yeah, it makes total sense that the remake of game on WiiU designed for teenage boys is (potentially) going to be popular with twenty to thirty years olds - they've aged a bit since playing the original.

This is the funniest argument I've ever walked in on, lol.

@Minako-Meleph same man, I'm excited to play X again and I hope it does well, but at the same time I'm low-key praying the next Xeno game is another fantasy style one lol. The varied takes the mainline games have on the concept of the titan landmasses is still so cool to me. I'm sure Monolith has some more crazy world designs in the works

Yes but will this excitement translate to sales numbers?

The game has been wanted so much but I still think they should have waited for Switch 2 because it could have looked so much better

@Dazman Excited enough to comment though

Would someone kindly tell me if the story in X has any relation to the mainline series? I know they’re all separate stories with the most loose of connections but I’m interested nonetheless.
Not that it matters, I will still be buying!

@Dazman You do know you're talking about a Wii U game, right? And about nobody bought this game on Wii U for that reason... right?

Besides, what's wrong with playing something that is both mature and youthful at the same time? Ya know the secret to maturity is knowing how to be a kid?

@Neckcrane With X launched, we were kind of on the verge of Xenoblade becoming yet another anthology series.

X doesn't contain any baggage of Chronicles I will say that much based on prior experience. It leans more heavily into sci-fi a la Gundam rather than science fantasy.

I do hope we’ll be able to disable the vocals in the background music. It ruined the experience for me and otherwise it would be one of my favourite games ever made.

XCX DE is going to be huge and potentially bigger than all previous Xeno games. The art style still looks fantastic and still pairs up with stuff coming out today. The game blew me away backing in 2015, I almost caved and got a Wii U for that and Smash 4. It's also a great starting point in the series for people who don't want to dive into the trilogy.

Only reason I havent preordered it is because I kind of want a Switch 2 first. Depending on when that system release Ill pick up this game accordingly.

@Ham-n-jam Ho, I totally agree! I prefer fantasy style with deep story, but thinking about the community as a whole, X and a sequel would bring more people on board and bring more people to the numbered games after that. But only Monolith Soft know what will happen next!

@BIG3 the fact that the game isn't being delayed for a switch 2 release makes me think good things about the switch 2's ability to upgrade switch games.

@RupeeClock

To add onto this the origional Wii release of Xenoblade Chronicles was a limited release. For a long time it was a rare gem of a Wii title. So it had a cult following rather than massive sales.

So the franchise didn't really gain traction until Xenoblade chronicles 2 on the Switch and the DE edition of the first game.
So the majority of fans didn't even get into the series until after the Wii U.

So this is a game most had only vagly heard of and even some Wii U owners probably didn't play it simply because it was still relatively uknown.

@Tyranexx Also XCX takes place is a sci-fi future version of OUR world. Like actual IRL cities are referenced. So rather than an entirely fantasy setting with sci-fi elements it goes really hard on the sci-fi.

@Axecon "Bigger than previous ones" is probably an exageration.

Don't get me wrong I am hyped for it. But XCX is known for being lighter on the story and being really a lot like a single player MMO.

While that style has some fans it's not entirely what JRPG fans like the most. Most XC fans will probably get the game anyway, but it's questionable how many outside that circle will take an interest in it.

I have already played the game myself so I will not be double dipping. I didn't particularly care for the game, and I was one of the people that bought the collector's edition. This is fantastic for newcomers though!

I love the game, and it's got great music and a HUGE world that feels in step with the rest of the series' grand scale, but I have one particular nitpick.
RPGs are known throughout history for repetitive music themes for standard combat, but that problem is frequently exacerbated in the ones that have lyrics. If the game has challenging, long-lasting bouts, it doesn't grate so much, as long as the track is well written.
Black Tar is pretty well written, as songs go (it could be called "bargain bin Limp Bizkit", but the whole game is quirky and cheesy enough, I'll allow it, IMO), but for RPG fight music it doesn't work, because the battle is usually over before the first loop of the prechorus. That will get the first 3-5 lines of the song permanently carved into your memory for weeks after a single hour. Blah!

Nintendo was smart to save this port of the game this long for Switch cause had it came out sooner after the Wii U version, I doubt it will get the same interest that it had right now since most will just get the Wii U version instead at that point. Nintendo made everyone thought it's not coming and then when more people started to lose hope they finally open the gates to Mira.

@Dazman seriously........(Facepalm)

I'm 100% prepared to buy this game, especially the "Definitive Edition" to resolve the censorship in the American version that was on the Wii U!

@Cronodoug fingers crossed. Nintendo has been very non censorship with the Switch but it's possible they'll just default to applying the same censors they did before.

Hopefully not but we'll have to wait and see to be sure.

@Dazman Sir, you forgot your Schizo medicine.

@Samalik @Tyranexx thank you both for explaining! I’m very excited about the release

I may have contributed 30 of those views to the overall count. lol

@PinderSchloss The vocals are the best part and what set it apart from the other games.

I've already wish-listed it and will digitally pre-order closer to the release date. This game is absolutely day one, second one.

Guys, don't feed the trolls.

We need the rest of Operation Rainfall ported/upgraded/remade to/for Switch!

PLEASE!
PLEASE!
PLEASE!
FIX the Audio Controls!
Dialog should NOT be drowned out by Music and Sound Effects!

@Dazman are you ok? What’s this obsession with attacking a game as “designed for teenage boys”? You’ve said it in three posts. It’s such a weird hill to die on and makes you seem unwell.

I just know it's huge if I'm buying this a second time. Thank goodness for character customization.

Hopefully the text size is better.

Love Xeno 1 and 3. 2 is uhhhh okay. As for X, i don't really care for the tatics. Parties need dedicated healers, tanks and dps, not a battle heal. So unless they alter it someway battle wise i will not reacquire it.

@abbyhitter Something with the lyrics ‘Not to sound cliché but this world sucks’ is a ‘best part’ of something?
I didn’t need to hear that in every single battle. It was a crazy choice. Usually battle themes change throughout the game or they’re designed to not become repetitive.
Battle themes are always cut off somewhere in the middle, when the battle is over. You don’t use lyrics for something with that function. It’s weird and annoying.

I’m also talking about the option to remove the vocals, so you can still hear that musical masterpiece as often as you want.

X case is unique that it’s not comparable to how 1, 2, or 3 reveal dropped on Switch

Majority of people didn’t watch this off a Nintendo stream like usual. It was off random YouTube video drop which means it will get more traffic then usual. Not to mention reveal was dropped on its own and not with an entire Direct worth of games.

Factor in this is the supposed “dead” period for Switch it makes X engage more discussion because there isn’t much other Nintendo games to talk about right now. I mean what? Talk about the new Prime game?

The second reveal trailer of the Wii U original is still one of my favourite videogame moments.

I mean, how can you not love that?
https://youtu.be/6GxUMMGyZcM?si=cMZIbXYDUsKZdeRt&t=33

@RupeeClock I’m in my early 40s and I used to own the game for the WiiU and I am definitely repurchasing it for the Switch. I now have no reason to consider a WiiU now as all of my WiiU titles have made it to the switch except for Windwaker but we can only hope for a Switch 2 release along with Mario Galaxy 2.

@Neckcrane This game is why I keep my WiiU going. To answer your question, it has some mechanical similarities to the other games in the series, especially the combat system. Who knows how much that may be adjusted. Personally I’d like to see combat made more like XBC3. XCX is more similar in general to the Monolithsoft team’s earlier series, Xenosaga, which is sci-fi with mechs. XBX has an incredibly good open world for a game that released a decade ago on the WiiU of all platforms.

@Neckcrane No, Xenoblade Chronicles X does not connect to any of the other Xenoblade games, it merely used the Xenoblade brand cause of its using the same mechanics as those games. If you ask me it feels more like the sci-fi successor to game like Xenogears where mech like vehicles are utilize. Also Xenoblade Chronicles, the series itself was once suppose to be a totally different series. The original Xenoblade Chronicles was going to be called Monado: Beginning of the World, had Nintendo stuck with that naming then Xenoblade Chronicles 2 & 3 would had been called Monado 2: Conflict of the World and Monado 3: End of the World respectively. The actual Xenoblade Chronicles would had been used for Xenoblade Chronicles X instead.

Also Xenoblade Chronicles are more animated and medievel similar to Zelda and Fire Emblem whereas Xenoblade Chronicles X is more realistic and sci-fi similar to Star Fox and Metroid. If Xenoblade Chronicles X world had a connection to the actual world of other Nintendo series than likely Xenoblade Chronicles X could take place in the middle between the Super Mario era (the modern time) and the F-Zero era (the cyberpunk time). The fact that the base town that Xenoblade Chronicles X is model after is Los Angeles means the story settings use to take place on Earth which means the folks who are on Mira now are descendants of Mario and Luigi who lived on Earth in the past. If there's a New Los Angeles in Mira then likely there's a New New York or a New Tokyo or New Sydney somewhere in another planet and we won't get to see em until Xenoblade Chronicles X2 or X3.

@Serpenterror @8bit4Life legends, thanks for the info dump! I got a feeling following quite possibly some massive sales for XCX, we may see those New Tokyo’s and New New York’s in future instalments. Very exciting times to be a Monolith Soft Fan!

To Skell and back again!

Can't wait to play. I'll be there Day One.

Just a respond to what I've read here. For those thinking Xenoblade Chronicles X is insignificant and just a write-off for a certain age group. I disagree.

X is probably more popular then the first game.

Chronicles sold a bit over 900k on the Wii. Half as much on the 3DS and the Definitive Edition sold 2x as much on the Switch.

X almost sold 850k on the Wii U alone.

Just for comparison sake, Breath of the Wild sold 1.7m on the Wii U so if the Switch version was never released, we would think no one wants open-world Zelda and that it was...a flop.

Oh, and Monolith Soft used a lot of what they learnt from X to help create Breath of the Wild so the game is by no means insignificant in contribution.

As for story, I think X is related but not yet explained and the DE will do just that. Afterall, it is describe in Chronicles that the people live on two giants fighting each other. In X, two "alien species" fought against each other and caused the destruction of Earth. So the story could be tired together in some way, either as alternative dimension/perspectives of a retelling of the same history.