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Reviews are coming in for Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition.
 
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starborn427614 said:
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Reviews are coming in for Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition.
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I finished it over the weekend in an unhealthy binge. The new ending is literally Xenosaga 3 part 2 and its obviously setting up a sequel. Also they don't even hide or attempt to censor biblical references anymore, directly saying capital G God exists, quote Revelations, and find out Heaven is real, maybe they finally cracked down on Treehouse being retarded I can only hope.
 
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The Croc remaster is dropping on the same day as the Switch 2 Direct.


Soggy Floppa said:
I finished it over the weekend in an unhealthy binge. The new ending is literally Xenosaga 3 part 2 and its obviously setting up a sequel. Also they don't even hide or attempt to censor biblical references anymore, directly saying capital G God exists, quote Revelations, and find out Heaven is real, maybe they finally cracked down on Treehouse being retarded I can only hope.
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How was it overall? I never really got chance to play it back in the day, but all the new QOL additions seem great.
 

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starborn427614 said:
How was it overall? I never really got chance to play it back in the day, but all the new QOL additions seem great.
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I already played it back in the day so I was just trying to get to the new stuff. It's really cleaned up, like its amazing how all it took was some minor changes. New UI I'm a bit iffy on since I liked having character level progress visible at all times while grinding, and you don't get the duplicate TP and HP bar on the arts tray anymore, so doing overdrive makes you have to look up to the party and back, which is annoying.

Other than that all, the actual gameplay changes are extremely minor like adding a new quick art button that lets you skip art charge at the cost of energy, and the bar only refills outside of combat, so it really speeds the combat up a lot, no more downtime, you unlock it for Skells too after you complete the new ending. They removed BLADE levels entirely, so you can open any field treasure or FN site without needing to grind or come back later (outside a couple that needed field skill 5 in the original, which I guess the quest still exists), and the field treasure isn't button mash anymore, just hold A. New UI lets you access everything from anywhere now, although you still need to return to the barracks to get your Skell back if it dies. Quest tracker is copied from Xenoblade 3 essentially, and now it tracks world collectables for you which is nice. Lastly level cap is uncapped to 99, no longer 60, but the game is still balanced around level 60 cap, so EXP scaling reflects that, and the new final boss is level 60.

They added 4 new party members with new Arts and storylines; NielNail, the Qlurian archeologist, the Skell test pilot who I was convinced would be a they/them given Treehouse's track record but she isn't, Ga Jiarg, and Al the lone hero from the intro and the main character of the new chapters. Essentially all the new stuff was in the Japanese artbook in the unused/classified materials section, so its extremely likely they've had this all planned from the start but ran into development troubles and or hardware limitations on the Wii U.

New music is really good, better than a lot of the original tracks, they got Sawano back for it, alongside a new composer, Misaki Umase. Sawano did some arrangements of old tracks, and to me it sounds like once you reach the new chapters its entirely Umase's stuff, and its really good, very Xenosaga-esque in a lot of ways.

Overall it's really good, X was always my favorite so my bias is shining through, but its honestly the best playing game Monolith has made in my opinion, and the new story harkens back to Xenosaga along with a lot of big lore drops, although they are done via exposition and animatics, presumably budget related and them needing the story told for the sequel, which I'm 99% sure is whats happening next. Don't rush to chapter 13 after finishing chapter 12 (the original ending), play the rest of the game first, its very much an epilogue meant for when you are all done, and it locks you out of the rest of the game until you finish it, where it then throws you back to after chapter 12 on a postgame save.
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
Does this remastered edition have the censorships of western original release on WiiU? I remember people made a point about that years ago. @Soggy Floppa
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Unfortunately yes, on all regions, but the extent of censorship is only the removal of the breast slider and the alteration of skimpy outfits on Lin (the 13 year old) and alteration of the Six Stars Ritual Wear on all characters (add white shorts instead of naked ass). They didn't undo anything, and that also means religious references have still been removed in the translation of the base game (such as Testaments to Reclaimers) and you get name changes of things and general localizer fanfiction. Fortunately it seems like with the new content either Monolith stepped in or Treehouse learned their place since it doesn't hold anything back and like I said before talks about God, the biblical apocalypse and quotes Revelations directly, although they never name the Bible, but G is capitalized. Though I can't confirm if they altered anything in the English version or not yet, but to me it seemed a lot better, less cringy localizer dialogue and the tone was more serious, very big whiplash when you get to new stuff next to the 2015 lol quirky Treehouse stuff.
 
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Soggy Floppa said:
Unfortunately yes, on all regions, but the extent of censorship is only the removal of the breast slider and the alteration of skimpy outfits on Lin (the 13 year old) and alteration of the Six Stars Ritual Wear on all characters (add white shorts instead of naked ass). They didn't undo anything, and that also means religious references have still been removed in the translation of the base game (such as Testaments to Reclaimers) and you get name changes of things and general localizer fanfiction. Fortunately it seems like with the new content either Monolith stepped in or Treehouse learned their place since it doesn't hold anything back and like I said before talks about God, the biblical apocalypse and quotes Revelations directly, although they never name the Bible, but G is capitalized. Though I can't confirm if they altered anything in the English version or not yet, but to me it seemed a lot better, less cringy localizer dialogue and the tone was more serious, very big whiplash when you get to new stuff next to the 2015 lol quirky Treehouse stuff.
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Hobestly, I never minded the name changes. Doesn’t make sense why people so far remived from Earth would know the actual stuff.

So it makes sense that the newly added stuff that I assume covers people more in the know would.

And honestly makes sense, I wouldn’t trust the players with all that stuff a decade ago considering Tekahashi’s history of failing thaot has only stopped with XC2. X suffered a lot for being before the game that actually took off and stuck the landing in my mind.
 
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X suffered a lot for being before the game that actually took off and stuck the landing in my mind.
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X had developmental troubles and their ambition was too big for what they could pull off, much like all his games in the past, and then it was further compounded by releasing on the Wii U that nobody had. X as a base allowed them to make Xenoblade 2 in 2 years while also having half their staff pulled for Breath of the Wild, so in the end it kickstarted them and let them get to the place they are now.
 
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Soggy Floppa said:
play the rest of the game first
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What does that included? Never completed the iriginal. I got board when I realised it would take forever to get mechs.
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X had developmental troubles and their ambition was too big for what they could pull off, much like all his games in the past, and then it was further compounded by releasing on the Wii U that nobody had.
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All of that too. Point being I think they pulled punches because ‘every time you do this it bombs’ and I can’t really fault them for it.

Strangely I think X might have needed to fail and get fixed a decade later when capability actually matched ambition for once.

And the series and Monolith is better for it.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
What does that included? Never completed the iriginal. I got board when I realised it would take forever to get mechs.
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The side content that makes up the bulk of the game, its where all the character development and world building is done, and there are a lot of things you never see if you only do the main story.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
wait.....are they gonna censor the Nazi bits? that'd be kinda hard to do, considering it's literally part of a central character's arc
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They tried that when the game originally came out in Germany and it broke the fucking game, so I hope not. But considering their shitty Blade Runner """remaster""" and how playing point and click games on consoles is retarded in the first place, just get dosbox

starborn427614 said:
The Croc remaster is dropping on the same day as the Switch 2 Direct.
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lol, I know what I'm doing that day and it's not watching niggertendo's shitty commercial
 
6MillionCoofs said:
Is that stuff obviously marked now?
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Its all the quests that appear on the map, the new map is a lot easier to read and it shows the available quests everywhere on the map. The main story is only the stuff that appears on the Barracks table and the requirements for those missions.
 
GigantorUnitron said:
Hey remember Xenoblade 2's shitty UI? What was up with that?
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2 is known for having basically no one work on it. To the point it got free updates to fix a lot of the issues and put in all the stuff they did not have time for.

I am still amazed that the control or combat reminders have to be found or bought in the game.

It does make everyone complaining about the game not telling them something very funny though.
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Over correction from X having MMO UI
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I am still miffed they went ‘clearly it is the UI and not the fact the UI is the size of an ant’

But I am very glad they moved to each attack is a separate button.
 
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