Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Sales Outside Japan Far Exceeded Monolith Soft's Expectations

It's good to be a JRPG on the Nintendo Switch. According to Monolith Soft Executive Director Tetsuya Takahashi, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and its recent DLC, Torna: The Golden Country, surpassed Monolith Soft's commercial expectations, especially in the West.

[Nyxus]

Good news! This is my favorite Switch game, it deserves the sales. I'm also picking up the Torna expansion later.

[Asuka]

This is my favorite game of recent years. I have somewhere around 700hrs invested in it haha. I just finished Torna The Golden Country last night, and it was everything an expansion should be imo.

I am happy to hear of the great sales. Hopefully something can be worked out with the older IPs (gears, saga) so they can see a rerelease, but I know that's a long shot. Either way I'm looking forward to whatever Monolith Soft does next.

[Segata]

My fave in the series and fave game on Switch so far as well.

[FallenAngel1984]

It’s the best selling game in the developer’s history

[Gemmol]

It's finally earning the respect it should get bro

[no_more_heroes]

Please bring the first one to the switch!

[Zeldafan64]

This had better be up for rpg of the year at the game awards.

[Segata]

I wonder if Xenoblade will ever win. I hope they do someday. Hey at least Ocotpath will be in the running and I hope it at least wins for best music. If Nier can then it's possible.

[Zeldafan64]

Haven't played Octopath yet but I have a hard time believing that it has a better soundtrack than Xenoblade.

[ibrake4naps]

Couldn't get into the combat. Put in about 10 hours before drifting to other games...

[Gemmol]

I found the combat very well thought out, I'm curious where did it lose you, i have not tried the expansion pass yet but i read from the developer they add some chs ges to it i cant wait to try it out.......you know torna run on a different engine from the base game so all the updated graphics and change to battle will not come to the base game since it run on a older engine, the new engine that torna use will be use on future games

[Gemmol]

When it came to the combat

You can attack front, back and sides

You keep auto attack until you build up power to to use your special attacks

While using special attacks those are use to build up your special move

Each character special move use a power either fire, ice, wind, light, dark etc

Let's say you use fire special theres a chart on The top right showing you the different routes you can take to unlock the strongest attack combo, as long as your other characters have the require attack to use you can do the final attack

[Nyxus]

The combat system takes a while to get used to. But if you keep playing it might grow on you (it did for me).

[Ragthorn]

I do understand your point. I actually also just came from the Reddit side of this news and saw someone else make the same comment. I think that the combat DOES get better, but I think it takes way too long for it to get interesting. It starts off quite slow and clunky-feeling with cooldowns to start off (eating those "Arts regenerate by x amount" is a pro tip here). Coupled with not having the full arsenal for all characters until about 30-40 hours in (depending on how long you take), the pacing of the game's combat could have been better. It's unfortunate because the best parts and depth come from that point onwards with actually being able to use Blade and Driver Combos to their fullest while working towards Chain Attacks that deal most of the damage towards endgame. I haven't played Torna yet, but I hope they remedied that with the new systems! Of course, I am excited for any upcoming titles they make - hopefully some more Xeno-based!

EDIT: Clarification.

[Gemmol]

They gotta thank me i got it digital with expansion pass

#teamAllDigital

[Nyxus]

#TeamPhysical

[slasaru01]

You imagine how they would exceed if were on PS4 as well

[EddieNX]

Yh imagine Zelda on the PS4, whilst were at it imagine Halo and Gran Turismo on the Switch!!!

[Segata]

Let's just imagine every 1st party studio from every console maker making games on Dreamcast 2 instead. Just as realistic bud.

[Nodoze]

Thats great now release Xenoblade X on the Switch (with text sizing options).

[michellelynn0976]

What a game! I am playing it right now. It is one of my favorite games of all time. Easily the best rpg I've ever played.