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Xenoblade Chronicles 2
North American cover art
Developer(s)Monolith Soft
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)
  • Koh Kojima
  • Genki Yokota
Producer(s)
  • Koh Kojima
  • Hitoshi Yamagami
Designer(s)Koji Hayashi
Programmer(s)Toshiaki Yajima
Artist(s)
  • Eiji Takahashi
  • Masatsugu Saito
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
SeriesXeno
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
Release
  • WW: December 1, 2017
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Xenoblade Chronicles 2[a] is an action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch video game console. The game is part of the Xeno series, serving as a sequel to the first Xenoblade Chronicles, and was released worldwide on December 1, 2017.

Plot

While it is a sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles, it features a new world and cast of characters.[1] It stars protagonist Rex and his new friend Pyra, who are searching the world for Elysium, the ultimate paradise for humanity.[2] The main protagonist Rex lives on a Titan he calls "Gramps".[3] One day, Bana, the Nopon chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild, refers Rex to a high-paying job offered by a masked man named Jin, and Jin's subordinates Malos, Nia, and Nia's White Tiger-like Blade Dromarch. The five unearth a massive ship from the depths of the Cloud Sea where inside the find a woman with an emerald core crystal on her chest and a red sword. When Rex touches the sword out of curiosity Jin responds by putting his sword through Rex's heart, much to Nia's horror. Rex soon awakens in a field of grass where he encounters the woman with the emerald core cystal, who introduces herself as Pyra, a legendary blade known throughout the world of Alrest as the "Aegis". Pyra implores Rex to help her reach the land of plenty known as Elysium as her new Driver, and resurrects Rex by giving him half of her core crystal. Rex and Pyra both reawaken in the real world where they face off against Malos before escaping on Azurda with Nia and Dromarch, the two having become disillusioned with Jin.

The group crash land on the Nia's home titan of Gormott, where Azurda, mortally wounded during the escape, reverts to his larvel state. The five make their way to Gormott's largest city Torigoth in hopes of finding a ship to use to make their way to the World Tree where Elysium is rumored to be atop of. Unfortunately Nia is recognized by the military as a member of the terrorist group Torna, and the group is forced to face off against the blade Brighid. Nia and Dromarch allow themselves to be captured to give Rex and Pyra a chance to escape. Rex and Pyra manage to evade capture thanks to the aid of a Nopon inventor named Tora, who unable to naturally become a Driver, has constructed a robot to act as his blade. Rex and Pyra help Tora activate the robot, whom Tora names "Poppi" and the four head off to rescue Nia from being executed as a terrorist. While attempting to escape the group encounter Brighid again, who is accompanied by her Driver Morag, the Special Inquisitor of the Empire of Mor Ardain, as well as the elder sister of its Emperor, Niall. Morag attempt to bring in Rex and Pyra, revealing the 500 years prior, the Aegis had destroyed three continents in a conflict that would come to be known as the Aegis War. The group outwit Morag and Brighid and retrieve a ship from Tora's uncle. The group sets sail for the World Tree, but they're unable to reach it when they are attacked by a massive "Artiface" known as Ophion, who sends their ship into the path of the Titan Uraya, who swallows them whole.

Making their way through Uraya, the group is attacked by a mercenary named Vandham and his blade Roc. Vandham defeats them, revealing that the ordeal was simply a test and takes the group to his village. He and Roc joins Rex's group and accompanies them to the Urayan capital Fonsa Myma to meet with Cole, an old friend of Vandham's who knows how to get to the World Tree. Along the way they encounter a swordsman named Zeke and his blade Pandoria, who the group defeats in combat. Arriving in Fonsa Myma, they meet with Cole, whom Pyra recognizes as old associate named "Minoth", the group rest before the agreed upon time set by Cole. Meanwhile, Malos, as well as fellow Torna member Akhos, lure Pyra out by abducting Cole's granddaughter. The group find Malos and Akhos and face them in combat, where they find themselves severely outmatched by Akhos' blade's ability to manipulate ether as well as Malos' own mysterious power. Vandham attempts to allow the others to escape by channeling Roc's ether through his own body, only to be killed by Malos. Rex, enraged by Vandhams' death, tries to fight and is nearly killed by Malos, forcing Pyra to reassume her true form, Mythra. Malos and Akhos are forced to retreat when Mythra forces their blades to revert to their core crystals. Burying Vandham, Pyra reveals that Malos is in fact another Aegis whom she and her previous driver Addam fought and defeated during the Aegis War. Cole direct the group to head for the Indoline Praetorium to meet with his driver, who once climbed the World Tree and came back with Mythra and Malos' core crystals, he then reveals himself to be a "Flesh Eater", a blade infused with human cells.

The group eventually arrive on the Titan of Mor Ardain en route to Indol. There they soon find another artificial blade wreaking havoc at the titan's capital, whom Tora seems to recognize as Lila, an artificial blade created by his father and grandfather, who was stolen in an attack that cause the death of the latter and the disappearance of the former. Lila escapes and the group is forced to fight Morag and Brighid again, who believe Poppi the one responsible. The group convince them of their innocence and forge a truce to find the ones really responsible. They deduce that Lila was headed to an abandoned factory near the heart of Mor Ardain, and along the way they fight and defeat Zeke and Pandoria again. At the factory the find Bana forcing Tora's father Tatazo to mass-produce artificial blades for Torna. After defeating Lila again, Bana retaliates by taking control of a giant version of Lila named Rosa, whom Poppi defeat after Tatazo gives her access to her full power. The group intimidate Bana into halting production on the artificial blades, only to be interrupted by Torna members Patroka and Mikhail. The two are eventually forced to retreat by the intervention of Morag and Fan La Norne, blade representing the Indoline Praetorium. Mythra recognizes Fan to be Haze, a blade she fought alongside in the Aegis War, Fan being unable to remember due to her core crystal being fragmented, she also reveal that Cole's driver is Amalthus, the Praetor of Indol. Amalthus is also the driver of Malos.

Morag and Brighid fully ally themselves with Rex's group, and at the direction of Fan they makes their way to the Leftherian Archipelago to take a titan to Indol. The group make their way to Rex's village of Fonsett, where Rex shows Pyra his parent's graves and Pyra privately laments to Rex's adoptive aunt Corrine that she believe that Rex would ultimately be better off without her in his life. Making their way to the Leftherian port, the group face off against Zeke and Pandoria once again, the former of whom Morag recognizes as the Prince of the Kingdom of Tantal. The group defeat Zeke, who reveals that he was acting at the behest of Amalthus to test Rex's group, he and Pandoria subsequently join them. After arriving in Indol they meet Amalthus, who decides to aid Rex in reaching Elysium as retribution for activating Malos. Meanwhile, Jin heads for the ruined titan Temperantia and takes control of an old Ardainian titan weapon and fires at the Urayan forces stationed there. With the tensions between Mor Ardain and Uraya about to erupt, Amalthus sends Rex's group to Temperantia to stop Jin. They disable the titan weapon and face Jin, who Mythra reveals is also a Blade who fought with her in the Aegis War, and that he and Fan had the same driver, a woman named Lora. Jin defends his alliance with Malos and blames Mythra for the destruction of Old Torna and Lora's death. Jin makes his escape but not before killing Fan.

After holding Fan's funeral, Amalthus attempt to negotiate peace talks between Mor Ardain and Uraya, meanwhile Rex's group uncover a terrorist plot to kill the leaders of Mor Ardain and Uraya and spark war between the two countries. After chasing a false lead, Rex's group find the person behind the plot to be Bana, who attempts to kill them with an improved version of Rosa. After being defeated, Bana attempts to blow himself up and take everyone with him. Emperor Niall's blade Aegeaon protects everyone from the blast, but Niall is killed trying to stop Bana. However, Nia, revealed to be a blade, discreetly heals Niall. The group being unable to make it to the World Tree without getting past Ophion, Amalthus directs them to Tantal to retrieve the Omega Fetter, the device that would allow Pyra to regain control of Ophion. Arriving in Tantal they meet Zeke's father King Eulogimenos. Eulogimenos, upon learning that Pyra is the Aegis, has her detained and the rest of Rex's group, save Zeke and Pandoria, arrested. Poppi breaks the group out of their cell and regroup with Zeke and Pandoria, and rush to stop Eulogimenos from destroying Pyra with a massive ether cannon. Rex's group divert the cannons aim away from Pyra as it fires. The blast severs Pandoria's ability to communicate with the Tantalese titan Genbu, who begins diving into the cloud sea. Eulogimenos apologizes to Pyra after she gives him Addam's last message to people of Old Torna, whose surviving citizens founded Tantal. To prevent Tantal from being destroyed by the pressure of the cloud sea, Eulogimenos directs them to where the Omega Fetter is being kept. Mythra repairs the Omega Fetter and absorbs it into her being, allowing Pandoria to communicate with Genbu again. The group are then confronted by Akhos, Patroka, and Mikhail, who reveal themselves to be Flesh Eaters. After defeating htme the group are confronted by Jin who reveals that Old Torna was actually destroyed after the Aegis War on Amalthus' orders, who, unaware of Addam and Mythra's disappearance, ordered the country of fear of her retribution. Jin's driver Lora was mortally wounded and Jin, unwilling to lose his memories of her, survived by consuming Lora's heart. He then reveals that he intends to make it to Elysium to kill the Architect for designing blades to be servants to humanity. He assumes his true form and bests the group in combat with his unimaginable speed and ability to control particles. He then threatens to kill Rex if Pyra does not hand herself over to Torna, even when Pyra threatens to kill herself using the artiface Siren. Pyra ultimately complies and is taken away by Jin as Rex watches.

Rex becomes despondent after being unable to stop Jin and contemplate giving up on his quest, but Nia convince him to stay and rescue Pyra. Eulogimenos tell the group that after the Aegis War, Addam went off to find the rumored third Aegis Sword, one that apparently even he was unable to control. Azurda reveals that he knows the location of the sword, having been tasked to guard it by Addam. The group make their way back to Fonsett village where Azurda directs them to the Spirit Crucible Elpys, making their way through the caves Nia, Dromarch, Brigid, and Pandoria are severely weakened by the high ether level within the caves, with Nia still hiding her true identity brush off as illness. Zeke is also affected to due being implanted with a portion of Pandoria core crystal, revealing himself to be a "Blade-Eater". Arriving at the bottom of the caves they're confronted by several phantoms in the image of Addam. Nia, finally learning to move on from her past, reveals herself to be a Flesh-Eater and allows Rex to become her driver. After defeating the phantoms Rex finds himself back in the memory of Elysium where he meets Addam's spirit, who names Rex the true driver of the Aegis. Back in the real world, Rex touches the third Aegis sword and sees a vision of the future. The rest of the group become hopeless when the sword turns to dust in Rex's hands, but Rex is unfazed, knowing that Torna is holding Pyra on the rotting titan at the Cliffs of Morytha.

Meanwhile at the Cliffs, Malos uses Pyra to restore his powers to their full potential and takes control of Ophion. When Rex's group arrives he challeges them with his ability to destroy anything he comes into contact with. However, Nia matches him with her ability to restore what he destroys and throws him off the Cliffs, although he quickly makes his way back up. Rex's group finds Jin and Malos with a catatonic Pyra and challenge them, all the while Pyra and Mythra plead with Rex to abandon them and go to Elysium by himself, revealing that the reason she wanted to go there in the first place was to beg the Architect to let her die. Rex manages to convince them to stand by him, Pyra and Mythra then awaken their full power, granting Rex a new suit of armor and the third Aegis Sword, allowing him to match Jin's power blow for blow. Malos, growing impatient, unleashes Ophion, causing everyone to fall into the void between the cloud sea and the World Tree.

Rex and Mythra awaken in a heavily dilapidated city under the cloud sea, they soon encounter Jin who, weakened from their earlier fight, decided to temporarily ally himself with them to make it out of the city. He reveals the city to be Morytha, rumored to be the birthplace of the Architect. Making their way through Morytha they reunite with Poppi and Brighid. While resting Mythra makes Poppi promise to kill her if she ever loses control of her powers again. Rex, Mythra, Poppi, and Brighid eventually reunite with the rest of their group. Jin regroups with the members of Torna aboard an old Tornan warship and decides to spare Rex's group for helping him. Rex's group make their way to the roots of the World Tree, finding it to be a massive tower covered in thick vines. Meanwhile, Amathus becomes disillusioned with Rex and decides to handle the conflict with Torna himself, unleashing the full fury of the Indoline Titan against them. As Rex and his group make their way up the tree Amalthus begs them to assist him in destroying Torna. However, Rex, believing that they can be reasoned with, refuses. Amalthus is then revealed to possess the rest of Fan's core crystal and takes control of the other titans in order to destroy the World Tree. Rex, Pyra/Mythra, and Poppi destroy the towers amplifying Amathus' power and Mikhail, who was unaffected by Amalthus' spell due to being a Blade-Eater and thus not an actual blade, sacrifices himself to destroy Indol and Amalthus. Rex's group eventually catch up to Jin and face him for the final time. Rex finally convinces Jin that humanity is worth saving and spares him as Akhos and Patroka appear. Mythra then realizes that Malos' desire to destroy the world wasn't by the Architect's design, but rather Amalthus' own hatred for humanity. Rex's group manage to defeat Amalthus and Jin sacrifces himself to kill him and as he fades away implores Rex to stop Malos, the latter having gone on ahead to Elysium.

Rex and his group arrive at the top of the World Tree, revealed to be a massive space station orbiting Alrest's atmosphere. They soon finally arrive at Elysium, only find completely desolate. Making their way to a chapel in the middle of Elysium they find a passage leading deeper into the space station. Everyone in Rex's group then mysteriously vanish and Rex makes his way deeper into the station on his own, being forced to fight his friends, who seemingly blame him for leading them on a fools errand. After a non-confrontational encounter with Pyra and Mythra, the group reunite in the Architect's Chamber, the whole ordeal having been a test designed to expose their deeper feelings. The Architect reveals himself to be a decrepit scientist named Klaus. Thousands of years prior, the world was engaged in a new world war, having lost his faith in the state of humanity, Klaus attempted to use a trans-dimensional metafold called "The Conduit" to create a new universe, this instead destroyed most of the earth and most of humanity, the only survivors being the zombie-like beings roaming Morytha, while the left half of Klaus' body become lost in another dimension. Klaus, regretful of his actions, decided to restore the world. Starting off by creating the cloud sea, in actuality a vast web of nanites that break down old matter and reshape it, as well as spreading the core cystals across the cloud sea, which eventually lead to the birth of a new generation of humanity. Klaus, wanting to ensure that someone wouldn't repeat his mistakes, created the blades and creating the three artificial intelligences Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma. Ontos became lost in a trans-dimensional accident and Logos and Pneuma were stolen by Amalthus, allowing them to eventually become Malos and Mythra, respectively. With his other half's demise drawing near, Klaus transfers all of Elysium's data to Pyra/Mythra and implores Rex's group to stop Malos, who has taken control of Aion, the artifice designed with sole purpose of destroying the world. They confront Malos destroy Aion. A mortally wounded Malos laments not meeting Rex sooner and dies having finally found a purpose for himself. Meanwhile, the death of Klaus' other half causes the Conduit to vanish, causing the World Tree to begin to shake itself apart, threatening to destroy Alrest. As Klaus dies, he leaves humanity one final gift. Pyra/Mythra directs Rex and the others to a control room that can stabilize the World Tree. Arriving at the control room, Rex instead finds it filled with escape pods, Pyra/Mythra reveals that the only way to save Alrest is to use the last of Aion's power to destroy the World Tree, which also means her own death. Rex breaks down and refuse to leave her behind, but she and the others convince him to live. Before departing Pyra/Mythra gives Rex the rest of her core crystal. Aion's detonation destroy the group's escape pod, but Azurda reassume his old form and saves them from falling. back on Alrest they find all of the titans converging on a new landmass created by Klaus, Rex then realizes that that was the Elysium they had been seeking the whole time. Shortly thereafter, Pyra and Mythra's core crystal reactivates and the game ends with the two of them reuniting with Rex and the others as Azurda flies them towards the new continent.

Gameplay

Like the previous games in the series, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 plays as an action role-playing game (ARPG) where the player controls a main character out of an overall party of three.[4][5][6] The game employs an open world design, with players able to freely navigate seamlessly interconnected environments. A day-and-night time cycle exists in the game, with the time of day often affecting in-game events, quests, enemy strengths, and item availability.

Development

The game is the third title in Monolith Soft's Xenoblade metaseries, following the original Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles X.[7] Plans for the game began as early as July 2014, during the latter half of development of Xenoblade Chronicles X, out of the negative fan reaction from changes implemented in the title.[8] While the original Xenoblade Chronicles followed the typical structure of a general story-driven JRPG, Chronicles X received far less emphasis on story, and was organized in more of a mission-based structure, focused primarily on exploring the game's open world.[7] The development grew impatient upon hearing the fanbase complain about the changes, and started work on another story-driven title.[8] Because the gameplay was more of a continuation of the first title, they decided to title it Xenoblade Chronicles 2.[8] Initial work on the game was difficult because the technical specifications of the Nintendo Switch were not yet finalized or known yet,[8] but once it was finalized, the game featured a shorter development period compared to the prior titles, with executive director Tetsuya Takahashi citing being able to use the technological foundation established in Chronicles X as a means of speeding up development time.[9][10] Another motivating factor was the agreement made by the team with Nintendo specifically to deliver the game early on in the Nintendo Switch's lifecycle.[9]

One of Monolith Soft's objectives for the game was to give the characters a wider range of facial expressions compared to past Xenoblade titles. The lead character designer was Masatsugu Saito, who for the first time was designing characters for a video game.[10][11] The developers chose him to give the protagonists a more expressive anime-like art style than prior Xenoblade entries, which featured a more realistic type of modeling that they found a bit too stiff.[7][12] Square Enix artist Tetsuya Nomura was responsible for the characters within the Torna organization.[9][13] Takahashi had always wanted to work with Nomura, but as he was busy with other games at Square Enix, he hesitantly approached the company with the hopes of letting him work as a guest artist. To Takahashi's surprise, they accepted the negotiation. Other guest artists also contributed, such as Xeno series veterans Kunihiko Tanaka and Soraya Saga, who designed some of the game's "Blades", weapon-like life forms.[14][15][16] Notably, Tanaka designed a blade of KOS-MOS, one of the protagonists of the Xenosaga trilogy.[17] The game's story was conceived by Takahashi, with assistance from screenwriters Yuichiro Takeda and Kazuho Hyodo, who respectively worked on the even and odd chapters.[18] Takeda, who also worked as a writer on the last two Xenoblade games, stated that the writing techniques and workflow for Chronicles 2 was similar to that of a movie.[18] Takeda also stated that the story had the most "Tetsuya Takahashi flair to date".[18]

The game was announced in January 2017 as part of Nintendo's detailed reveal of the Nintendo Switch, with a gameplay trailer being released on the same day.[4][19][20] Similar to the original Xenoblade, the title was announced as Xenoblade 2 in Japan, but had Chronicles added to its name in English speaking regions.[21] The game was also a part of Nintendo's presentation at E3 2017, where it was reconfirmed for release by the end of 2017.[22] Like the original Xenoblade Chronicles, Nintendo's European division took up the reins for the English localization, who regularly communicated with Nintendo's Japanese and American divisions about decisions that could prove controversial, something that was previously an issue with Xenoblade Chronicles X.[23] Due to the game's simultaneous worldwide launch, the localization process took place during development rather than after it, unlike the first two games. The game released worldwide on December 1, 2017.[24]

Music

Composition of the game's soundtrack was led by Yasunori Mitsuda

The game's original score was written by Yasunori Mitsuda, ACE (Tomori Kudo and Hiroyo "Chico" Yamanaka), Kenji Hiramatsu, and Manami Kiyota.[25] Mitsuda, who was also in charge of the audio budget, musician booking, schedule management, and music sheet proofreading, was first invited to the project by Takahashi in December 2014.[26][27] Throughout the following year, Mitsuda and Takahashi held numerous meetings discussing the overall direction of the music, eventually inviting musical group ACE and Kenji Hiramatsu, who had also worked on the first Xenoblade Chronicles.[27] At the meetings, each composer's contribution to the soundtrack was decided, with ACE primarily handling the field music, and Hiramatsu handling the battle music.[8][27] According to Mitsuda, it was done in a way that would satisfy the fans, as they did not want to "ruin the image" that was set by the first Xenoblade Chronicles.[27] With contributions from over 300 total musicians and 20,000 sheets worth of music, Mitsuda considered it the largest project he had ever worked on, with files and data from Pro Tools, his music production software, surpassing one terabyte in size.[26][28] Overall, there were approximately 120 tracks recorded for the game, with around 25 of them being from Mitsuda.[8]

The soundtrack features performances from the Slovakian-based Bratislava Symphony Choir and the Irish-based vocal ensemble Anúna.[27][29][30] Mitsuda, who had always wanted to work with Anúna after becoming a fan of theirs in the 1990s, claimed that their performances for the game made him cry.[27][31] Two tracks, including the ending theme written by Mitsuda, were sung by Jennifer Bird of the English acoustic duo Tomorrow Bird.[32] Before recording, Mitsuda and Bird corresponded so that she could properly convey the characters' emotions through her singing. While recording, Bird was able to improvise melodic elements of her singing, something that did not usually happen with Mitsuda's arrangements.[33][34] Days before the game's launch, a promotional music video featuring a vocal track from the game by Mitsuda, "Shadow of the Lowlands", was uploaded onto Nintendo's official YouTube accounts.[35] The video features a performance by Anúna, and was filmed and directed by Michael McGlynn, leader of the group.[35]

Reception

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was positively received upon announcement, with some critics calling its reveal "unexpected".[12][20] Jeremy Parish of USgamer favorably compared it to Chrono Cross.[46] At the Gamescom event in August 2017, the game received positive early hands-on impressions from gaming sites, being praised for its streamlined combat system and environments.[47][48]

Upon release, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 received "generally positive" reception according to review aggregator Metacritic.[36] IGN praised the game, calling it a "standout RPG that manages to keep its story, combat, and exploration interesting over the course of at least 70 hours of adventure through an impressively varied and rich world", though conceded a few frustrations with the game, including a confusing minimap that sometimes led to the reviewer getting lost.[43] GamingBolt called it "one of the best JRPGs of this generation", awarding it a score of 9/10, and calling its world "vast and beautiful", its story "complex and layered", and its combat "intricate and addictive", while also noting that the game was occasionally held back by "obtuse design choices" and "a simple lack of polish".[49]

A more negative review came from Jason Schreier of Kotaku, who panned the game for being "dull, dreary, overly complicated, and unconcerned with wasting the player's time", as well as calling the writing "subpar". Despite his criticisms, Schreier praised the game's music and environments, calling the former "spectacular".[50] The game received a 35/40 review score from Famitsu.[39]

Sales

The game sold nearly 98,000 copies in its first week in Japan, and 168,000 after a month.[51][52] In the United Kingdom, the game positioned itself at number 19 overall in its first week, which made it debut 9 places higher over Xenoblade Chronicles X.[53]

Notes

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Xenoblade 2 (ゼノブレイド2, Zenobureido Tsū)

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