Xenoblade Chronicles X Remaster Headed for Nintendo Switch

By Elijah Gonzalez  |  October 29, 2024 | 1:50pm
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Xenoblade Chronicles X Remaster Headed for Nintendo Switch
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After years of pleading from fans, a highly requested port just got a release date for the Nintendo Switch. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is headed for the console on March 20, 2025. According to the Nintendo store listing, the new version of the game will have visual enhancements alongside “newly added story elements and more.”

Originally released for the Wii U, Chronicles X came out roughly a decade ago to a generally positive reception. It’s a spin-off of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, and although it has little direct narrative overlap with that trilogy of games, there are quite a few gameplay and aesthetic similarities: RPG combat, robots, aliens, and all.

It was developed by Monolift Soft, a studio that cut its teeth on the Xenosaga series, which was a spiritual successor to Square’s Xenogears. Their Xenoblade games are known for sprawling narratives, expansive vistas full of out-of-this-world flora and fauna, and a particular brand of MMO-inspired combat.

As for Chronicles X specifically, it takes place in the future after the remnants of humanity narrowly survived an alien invasion by fleeing to the stars. One of the escaped spaceships, the White Whale, crashes on a new planet called Mira, and its survivors establish the city of New Los Angeles. And then a bunch of very complicated stuff occurs involving robot surrogates, the nature of consciousness, and other big swing narrative turns—you know, Xenoblade stuff. With the release of Chronicles X on the Switch, every game in the series will be playable on the console. The original game in the series first came out in 2010 on the Wii, but it was previously re-released on the Switch as Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition in 2020.

Xenoblade Chronicles X joins a large lineup of other Wii U games that have made their way from one of Nintendo’s least successful consoles to one of its most successful, such as Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Bayonetta 2, and more. Here’s hoping that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD will make the jump next.

You can check out the announcement trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition below.

 
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