Chris Buffa (Modojo): Earlier this week, Nintendo crushed the hopes and dreams of an untold number of fans when it shut the door on bringing Japanese Wii games The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles and Pandora's Tower to the U.S. This, despite an impressive grassroots effort to convince the publisher otherwise.
Xenoblade Chronicles composer Kenji Hiramatsu reflects on his work and feels that it's "time for a fresh start."
There is no together at the top. There is only one top jrpg series. Xenoblade Chronicles series is alone at the top
I like the Xenoblades series but my ‘top’ series would be either the Trails series or Persona series. Just too many good games for me to just pick one series though, so I say play them all lol.
I'm not huge into JRPGs, but my favorite is easily the Persona series. It's all opinion though. Xenoblade is a great series.
Tetsuya Takahashi has revealed his plan to make the next Xenoblade vastly different from previous games.
I liked the Xenoblade X formula. It takes awhile, but opening up Mechs was amazing. Especially once you can fly them, and use them in battle. You have to put some time into the game to do it, but it's worth it!
Also, the graphics were more realistic than the other games. Still looks good today, just a lot more pop-in than is acceptable today, hell even too much for back then. It wasn't game breaking though.
Xenoblade 1-3 and X are so great. That said, I'm ready for them to do a big change up.
Some of the best Switch JRPG games out there include the epic Xenoblade Chronicles to the hard-as-nails Dark Souls Remastered.
Me being a Playstation guy and a huge JRPG fan, I can say that the only franchises I actually miss that are on Switch are The Fire Emblem series and The Xenoblade Chronicles series. I've played neither but I've heard good things. I've seen people play Xenoblade Chronicles games on youtube, and it seems like they think it's a big deal so I'm curious.
As someone who doesnt like jrpg’s that much these days I went into Xenoblade Chronicles blind and had a blast. Reminded me of that golden age of 16-bit and 32-bit jrpgs. If thats the era you liked then it should hit the spot.
I only have a Switch for the games that don’t come on PlayStation . There aren’t a ton but there are some good ones.
I agree with top 1, for me xenoblade chronicles 3(and 2) is one of the greatest jrpg to date. It's like the feeling of playing ff7 on ps1 for the first time again. Imagine if XC3 was done with ps5 graphics, that will be magical. I might get the xc remaster before the year ends or after I got the platinum trophy of GoW ragnarok.
I didn’t care for 2 as much . It’s good but 3 is sooo much better than so is the first one imo .
It won't be smart when fans like myself who have supported Nintendo for 20 years decide not to buy a Wii U. No use getting another Nintendo console when I know they aren't even going to bother releasing half the games that I want to buy.
Smart businesses understand that sometimes you take a short-term loss for a long-term gain. Even if Nintendo only broke even localizing those titles - even if they *lost* money - they would make it up in the long-term from all the other purchases people like myself make. By abandoning us, they may save a few bucks now, but they lose thousands down the road.
I've helped a friend (loyal nintendo fan, owned almost all of Nintendo hardware, mostly her older brother's influence. Refuse to own anything but Nintendo stuff) softmod her Wii because Nintendo wasn't localizing some game. I think it was a Doroumon game or something like that. I forgot what but anyway, she didn't want to get it mod but didn't have much a choice. First the Wii is region lock and second it wasn't coming to the US. Now that is modded, she has been less incline to buy more games or rather fewer than before.
Point is, keep it up Nintendo, eventually down the line you will continue to lose support whether it's to exposure of piracy/modding because you refuse to localize or lack of support towards hardcore audience.
I currently see no reason to own Wii U as they have failed to prove that they will cater the hardcore audience and support it. First, the games planned to be released from third party are old titles. Second, they show little initiative to support anything else but first party titles.
Continue down this road, and the already small loyal fanbase will continue to shrink.
There are very few games that gather my interest in the nintendo lineup, but since the put a picture of mother 3 i peaked an interest. Earthbound was & still is one of my all time favorite games. I have played & beaten it litterally 30+ times. I finally sold my cartrige copy on ebay a couple months ago for $100 i downloaded the ROM version & play it. Had nintendo finally ported mother 3 to even the wii i might entertain the idea of buying one simply to play that & zelda. If nintendo talks of earthbound 2 or mother 4 for the wii u i might actually consider it, but other than that i have zero interest in anything to do with nintendo.
Yeah, real smart forcing others to softmod their Wiis just to play the games we want in America that are ALREADY in English...
I am not amused with the Wii U at all. I was a victim of the Wii craze and feel like an idiot for buying it. So few games for adults and even the ones for kids are only mildly interesting.
The Wii U as a console seems like a slap in the face to those of us with a Wii sized paperweight on our entertainment units. In the coverage for the system you see people using the Wii-mote yet somehow, I have a sneaky feeling we'll be buying a whole new Wii-mote one b/c the ones we have won't be compatible with the Wii U system. I feel used and abused.
Nintendo, you disappoint me.