There is, in general, very little for Wii U owners to be excited about. Just about everything that was scheduled for release in the holiday period was moved in to the new year, with the only big first party Nintendo title being a Mario Tennis game. And not a good one, either.
Thankfully, there’s some reprieve for Wii U owners starving for something not just good, but great to play on their systems. And it comes tomorrow – in the form of Xenoblade Chronicles X. According to reviews thus far, it’s an amazing game, with outlets dispensing hyperbole left right and centre in favour of the Japanese RPG.
“I have enjoyed Xenoblade Chronicles X so much that I am planning to start it all over again from the beginning, so I can really take my time with this absolutely gargantuan adventure, and I rarely feel that way about any game, let alone one I’ve been playing almost non-stop for a month,” say the chaps from God is a Geek. “This is an essential purchase for all Wii U owners who love the JRPG genre.“
The guys from Eurogamer were equally enthralled.
“Nevertheless, this is contemporary Japanese RPG-making at its boldest and most imaginative in years,” they say. “For every cliché – the helium-voiced furry mascot who totters along behind your group, the incongruous, schizophrenic rock-cum-rap soundtrack – there’s an invention that hauls the open-world JRPG into the present, and then another that shunts it breezily into the future. Perhaps the game’s greatest achievement is that, over the course of this journey, you settle into Mira and, in that mystical way of all video game greats, Mira settles into you.”
Gosh. That’s deep, man. Xenoblade Chronicles X is the sort of game to own a Wii U for; the sort that makes you stop and stare and loudly exclaim “Woah, is this really on the Wii U?” It’s out tomorrow, offering hundreds of hours of breath-taking gameplay. Here then is its launch trailer.
Last Updated: December 3, 2015
Umar
December 3, 2015 at 10:40
“Woah, is this really on the Wii U?”
Happens about every 5 minutes.
Admiral Chief - CHAAARGE!
December 3, 2015 at 10:56
OFCOURSE YOU WOULD COMMENT FIRST
Hammersteyn
December 3, 2015 at 10:57
Like you do on Warframe articles?
😛
Umar
December 3, 2015 at 11:06
😀 😀 If it were Deus Ex or FTL you would be all up in that comments
Admiral Chief - CHAAARGE!
December 3, 2015 at 11:34
OR Warframe or XCOM
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2015 at 10:46
That looks pretty cool. Just suffers from the same problem I have with many JRPGs – that cutesy kiddie vibe. That annoys me so much. Thundercats were cool when I was a kid, now I’d rather gouge my eyes out.
Umar
December 3, 2015 at 10:49
Yeah, this annoys me as well. Play a game called Eternal Sonata and then tell me how you feel. Irritating children in JRPGs are the worst. You should try playing a Shin Megami Tensei game. SMT 3’s final boss is Lucifer. No kiddies allowed 😀
Nuvendil
December 5, 2015 at 12:24
I assure you the overall tone of this is *not* kiddie. At all. There’s humor and levity and some silly bits but those are to lighten things between things like the whole earth being destroyed, aliens trying to annihilate the human race, and other such things.
DiegoZicoB
December 3, 2015 at 13:12
I contemplated getting the Wii U bundle with this game but tried to justify the purchase by looking at the other games available for the Wii U and I can’t justify it : (
The games are either available on other consoles, the older RPG exclusives like Last Story & the 1st Xenoblade aren’t available to buy and the other exclusives like Pokemon and Mario don’t appeal to me. So I’m hoping this sequel makes its way to 3DS like the 1st one did.