The Wii U game has a lot to discover, if you have the patience
Have you ever looked at a Roger Dean painting and just dreamed? Imagine what the view would be like from atop one of those impossible floating islands, or how it would feel to walk across a stone bridge that leads you toward a rock formation twisted into the shape of a cathedral.
Xenoblade Chronicles X, which is available now on the Wii U, is probably your best chance to find out. It throws you into an alien world — one of awe-inspiring scale, filled with beautiful alien creatures and wondrous landscapes — and asks you to explore. It’s often frustrating, and it takes a lot of patience to make your way through, but there’s really nothing that can compare to its sense of scale and wonder. Xenoblade Chronicles X is an open-world role-playing game, and the spiritual successor to the Wii’s Xenoblade Chronicles . The two games take place in a similar world and play a lot alike, but X tells a completely new story. You take on the role of one of the remaining few humans alive — after a battle with a murderous alien species, the last of humanity is living on a strange new planet, and has turned a massive crashed spaceship into a settlement known as New Los Angeles. It’s a cool set-up, but you can ignore the entire story, really; it amounts to some cliché sci-fi tropes bundled together with a cast of largely forgettable characters. What that narrative set-up does accomplish is giving you a reason to venture outside the settlement and explore the planet. One of the most important activities in the game is finding new areas and placing probes, which provide information about the land while also letting you mine for important resources. Your new home planet Mira is as vast as it is dangerous, and you’ll need to learn everything you can about it. The best way to do that is to explore.
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