So while you’re free to explore to your heart’s content, you will often find yourself running from potential attacks. Xenoblade X’s system marks these beasts with icon warnings, letting you know which ones will attack on sight. Like most MMOs, these situations do not scale with character level, meaning that the roaming high-level monsters pose a constant threat. For every lovely plant or interesting rock formation, this world serves up alien wildlife that could kill your party instantly. Xenoblade Chronicles X follows a crew that crash-lands the remnants of their city (which is based on Los Angeles, of all places - why not save San Francisco instead?) on an alien planet. That landscape is just as hostile as it is beautiful.

It’s like being on vacation on an alien planet. The world is so inviting that it’s surprisingly easy to lose focus and find yourself on a sightseeing detour. Anything you see, you can approach and interact with. It’s instantly engaging with its attractions and land features. Xenoblade Chronicle X’s world isn’t just some pretty backdrop. And then there’s you and your party - three tiny humanoids lost in this lush, beautiful alien world.Ībove: This image is just one small section of one of five continents in Xenoblade Chronicles X Crash e xpedition Lakes sparkle in the distance at the foot of strange, mountain-sized rock formations while towering dinosaur-like beasts lumber toward the horizon. A freely adjustable camera system pans in as closely or out as far as you would like, but no setting can get around how huge the world is. Xenoblade Chronicles X does a great job of making you and your accompanying party seem small and helpless. When I asked if that number represented the amount of the game’s world I’ve seen, a Nintendo representative grinned and said that I had only walked about 7 percent of one of the world’s five continents.

While playing, I noticed that Wii U controller’s screen showed a 7 percent value listed just below a world map. Just what I saw during that time alone seemed gigantic compared to other recent role-playing releases. But Xenoblade Chronicles X does borrow from such games with its incredibly massive world - Nintendo called it an “open-planet RPG.” To give some idea of how big it is, I spent a couple of hours wandering around just the corner of a map, exploring, fighting monsters, and sightseeing. It does have some online elements, such as cooperative play, though Nintendo didn’t show or discuss them in this session.

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