oprainfall writes:
"Shulk tilted the Monado, and ever so gently lowered the blade into his palm. He applied a little force; nothing happened. The Monado can’t cut people. He remembered saying exactly that to Reyn only a month before. Can it cut other living things, though? Shulk had never tried, and nor did he want to; he wished Dickson or Dunban were here, as they had so much more experience with the Monado than he did.
Shulk leaned forwards to examine the symbol contained within one of the sword’s circles of glass. So many twisted lines… Shulk longed to learn what they meant. It was, he noted, the same symbol that the Monado displayed when casting Enchant. It’s almost like… The Monado always has Enchant activated. That would make sense, and explain why the sword was able to cut through Mechon armour. But where does it draw its anti-Mechon power from? And what about all the other layers of glass…?
Shulk sighed and continued to turn the Monado over in his hands."
Xenoblade Chronicles composer Kenji Hiramatsu reflects on his work and feels that it's "time for a fresh start."
Tetsuya Takahashi has revealed his plan to make the next Xenoblade vastly different from previous games.
I liked the Xenoblade X formula. It takes awhile, but opening up Mechs was amazing. Especially once you can fly them, and use them in battle. You have to put some time into the game to do it, but it's worth it!
Also, the graphics were more realistic than the other games. Still looks good today, just a lot more pop-in than is acceptable today, hell even too much for back then. It wasn't game breaking though.
Xenoblade 1-3 and X are so great. That said, I'm ready for them to do a big change up.
Some of the best Switch JRPG games out there include the epic Xenoblade Chronicles to the hard-as-nails Dark Souls Remastered.
Me being a Playstation guy and a huge JRPG fan, I can say that the only franchises I actually miss that are on Switch are The Fire Emblem series and The Xenoblade Chronicles series. I've played neither but I've heard good things. I've seen people play Xenoblade Chronicles games on youtube, and it seems like they think it's a big deal so I'm curious.
I agree with top 1, for me xenoblade chronicles 3(and 2) is one of the greatest jrpg to date. It's like the feeling of playing ff7 on ps1 for the first time again. Imagine if XC3 was done with ps5 graphics, that will be magical. I might get the xc remaster before the year ends or after I got the platinum trophy of GoW ragnarok.