Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Nintendo’s open-world RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X is getting remastered for the Switch

by BD Banks

Image: Nintendo

Though we’re mere months away from the reveal of the Switch’s successor, Nintendo still has some unfinished business with its current hardware. Nintendo has announced that Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, a remaster of Monolith Soft’s 2015 action RPG, will launch on the Switch on March 20, 2025. According to the press release, the remaster features enhanced visuals and added story elements.

Nintendo released a new trailer to mark the occasion and its opening seconds feel hilariously on the nose. There’s something deeply ironic about the trailer for a Switch port of a ten-year old Wii U game starting with the dialogue, “Well, here we are. Not too shabby, huh?” It’s like a tongue-in-cheek joke acknowledging there’s a wealth of…

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