Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles follows Shulk and his band of friends as they search for answers about the mysterious "Monado" sword and defend their homeland from violent robotic creatures known as the Mechon. The game…
Xenoblade Chronicles is an adventure developed by Monolith Soft, released 10 June 2010 on Wii U and Wii. The main story takes about 65 hrs to finish.
What Xenoblade Chronicles is
Xenoblade Chronicles is an adventure game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2010. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Wii.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Life in the world evolved on the bodies of two giant motionless world-gods named Bionis and Mechonis. In this world, Shulk, a young man with mysterious origins, comes across a magical sword named Monado, that allows him to see glimpses of the future. Shulk finds himself caught in the struggle between the humans from Bionis and the machines from Mechonis. Along his quest to defeat the machines he will have to help the inhabitants of Bionis rebuild their world.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Xeno series
Xenoblade Chronicles is the tenth of 35 entries we hold in the Xeno series. It arrived 3 years after Xenosaga II to III: A Missing Year. The next entry was Xenoblade Chronicles 3D in 2015. Its critic score of 91 is 4 points above the series average of 87. The highest-rated entry is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at 100.
How it was received
Xenoblade Chronicles holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 150 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 65 hrs.
What it launched against
Xenoblade Chronicles launched on 10 June 2010, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy 2, Singularity, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy 2, Singularity, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Xenoblade Chronicles yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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