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As someone who started with the second game, I’m probably not the best person to answer this question or give a reliable recommendation. There are also many older games out there, like Xenogears and Xenosaga, which appear to be folding into lore with the recently revealed Xenoblade Genesis, so newcomers will have a lot of homework to catch up on. But I don’t think any of it is necessary to enjoy everything that Xenoblade does so well. Like I said, I started with the second entry and still massively enjoyed the individual narrative it possessed and all the unique flourishes it brought to combat

I might be missing a couple, while select NPCs and narratively important characters boast unique accents all their own, but I think this is how things are broken down in Xenoblade 2: Gormott — Welsh Uraya — Australian Mor Ardain — Scottish Lefteria — Northern English Tantal — Received Pronunciation (fancy English) Blades and Torna — America This pattern extends to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as well, albeit with species we haven’t seen before boasting new types of British accents to broaden the scope of localisation. It is so ridiculous but so charming at the same time, goi

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 now runs at a locked 60 frames per second on the Nintendo Switch 2, which alone is a transformative upgrade for the JRPG. Previously locked to half of that, in my brief testing it holds to this limit in both cutscenes, exploration, and combat with a couple of rare drops when panning the camera around larger, more densely packed locations. Such drops have to be sought out rather than regularly impacting moment-to-moment gameplay in my experience though, so chances are they could be addressed with a patch. As for the resolution, marketing claims it now runs at 4K, although

You might think I’m just looking for something to complain about here, but I’ve never been a fan of the user interface in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It tries to adopt the same cute aesthetic used by the rest of the game, but in a practical sense, this unfortunately translates to buttons and icons that feel needlessly oversized in the game world and don’t offer much functionality beyond looking pretty. Some work could have been done to at least adjust the size of select icons in the field rather than simply increase the resolution to a native 4K — it feels so unusual for elements like speech bubbl