Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player) (32 Player Online)
- Genre
- Release Date
Nintendo Switch
20th Mar 2025, $59.99
20th Mar 2025, £49.99
- Series
- Tags
- Official Site
- nintendo.com
Reviews
Robot Jox
We were somewhere around 20 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, on the edge of thinking, 'This is all very familiar,' when the really feeling it began to take hold. As fun as Xenoblade Chronicles X is in its opening six chapters — and it's up there with the rest of the series in this regard — things only really...
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Guides
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Walkthrough
Flippin' Skell
Hello, and welcome to Nintendo Life's Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition: Walkthrough Guides hub! While this game is 10 years old, it should go without saying, but please be aware that the following guides contain huge spoilers for every aspect of the game! In this walkthrough, we've got Beginner's Tips and Tricks and a full
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Open World Games
Everything the light touches
Updated with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Enjoy! You see that mountain on the horizon? You can go there! That old gaming chestnut has been around for a very long time now, but for old-school gamers who remember the compartmentalised kingdoms of yore, there's a special magic still to be derived from being...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: All 22 Playable Characters & How To Unlock Them
We're putting a team together...
One of the very best parts of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition — or any other Xenoblade game tbh — is the cast of characters who join you on your adventures. In order to help you to collect 'em all (wrong franchise?), we've put together this quick-look character guide to where each of your newest and...
Guide Best Xenoblade Chronicles Games Of All Time
All the games and DLC, ranked
Now with 50% more Xenoblade Chronicles X (we've added the Definitive Edition now that everyone's had a chance to explore Mira on Switch). Enjoy! Tetsuya Takahashi's Xenoblade Chronicles series began its journey on the Wii in 2010, but it's on the Switch where the RPG series has really taken off. With two sequels,...
Guide Where To Buy Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition On Switch
Best deals and cheapest prices
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is out on Switch and its release marks the arrival of one of the most anticipated Wii U ports on Nintendo's hybrid console. The series has gone from strength to strength on Switch, with XC2 and XC3 bringing new fans into the Xenoblade fold as well as wowing critics, including...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: How To Level Up Quickly & Best Farming Locations
"Rise! Ok, now do it faster"
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition has bumped the original game's level cap up from 60 to 99, and so we thought a quick guide to levelling up spots by level might be in order. For this guide, we'll focus on a handful of our favourite spots to fight enemies who are easy to deal with in a Skell, as well as...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: What's The Best Division?
Which faction of BLADE should you join?
When you join BLADE in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, you'll be given a choice --which Division to join. Divisions are essentially subgroups within BLADE that are responsible for various tasks — one focuses keeping New Los Angeles safe from indigens, while another focuses on collecting and...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: FrontierNav - Best Setups & Optimisation Guide
Are you FN kiddin' me?
If, like us, you're almost immediately turned off by stuff like the FrontierNav mechanic in Xenoblade Chronicles X, listen, we get it. However, once you know what you're doing and how to optimise it, FrontierNav is a cinch to have set up and running in the background, ensuring you're making enough moolah and Miranium to keep...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: All Skells List
Every Skell in Definitive Edition, including new ones
If there's one thing that excites us most about Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition the most, it's all the great big ruddy robots. There are lots of very cool Skells to get your hands on during your time on Mira, and we've put together a quick list of those we've managed to acquire thus...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: Best Combat Builds For All Characters
Picking a fight, is it?
Combat and combat builds can be a lot to get your head around when you're starting out in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. So much so that we reckon your best bet is to relax and learn as you go. Enjoy it, first and foremost. However, when you're ready to get deeper, and once you've become au fait with combat in...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: How To Get A Skell
Get to your mechs!
Yes, yes. We know. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is an amazing game right from its opening moments, but getting a Skell, and fast, is understandably the most exciting aspect of the early parts of this adventure for many. "Just give us the big flipping robots," is the general vibe, and we understand. So, how exactly...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles X: Everything New In Definitive Edition On Switch
Definitively Definitive
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition brings a Wii U favourite up-to-date on Switch in many different ways, not just the graphical. This beloved entry in the Xenoblade series makes tons of useful quality-of-life updates and expands on the story of the original 2015 game. We'll be covering all of those changes here in...
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition News
Opinion It's Time To Get Rid Of Fall Damage
Free faller
Falling. It hurts, right? We’ve all tripped up over nothing while walking and scraped our knees, or tripped up the stairs and landed face-first. It’s not fun. It’s embarrassing, it's painful, and it stands as a persistent reminder that I am the most clumsy of human beings. There’s a reason we can't jump off of buildings and...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th April)
Whatever will we Pik?
You wait six months for a Nintendo Direct and then three come along in a matter of weeks! There's no rest in the world of Nintendo at the moment, and we're excited about it. This week's showcase put Mario Kart World in the spotlight. The presentation didn't have all that much newness to show, but we got a better idea of
Opinion In A Post BOTW And Elden Ring World, Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Still Daunting
The Planet between
Whether it’s your first or your fortieth time, booting up Xenoblade Chronicles X and exploring your immediate surroundings is nothing short of incredible. Mira’s huge, biodiverse landscape, populated by monsters both as small as a ball or as large as a four-storey building, with scraps of ruined ships and alien devices dotted...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (12th April)
Still reeling?
Well folks, another week has come and gone, and it was another doozy. We're still kind of reeling from the onslaught of Switch 2 news that followed Nintendo's recent Direct, and to kick the week off, we showcased our big interview with Nintendo's own Nate Bihldorff, in which he confirmed that the new Joy-Con 2 controllers don't...
Japanese Charts Not Even The Impending Switch 2 Can Stop This Mario Party
Party on!
Hello, yes, we're back with the boxed charts over in Japan. Apologies for missing last week, it was quite a busy one for Team NL, as I'm sure you can imagine. This week, Super Mario Party Jamboree is once again at the top, selling another 11,487 copies. It's not the biggest increase we've ever seen, but we suspect that sales in general...
UK Charts Old Favourites Keep Nintendo In The Race As Xenoblade Plummets From Top 10
Thank you, Mechs
Well, that was somewhat short-lived. After briefly witnessing a new Nintendo release on the podium, the Big N's latest has seen quite the fall in its second week. Yes, last week's silver medal wasn't enough to keep Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition in the race this time, with the latest RPG dropping all the way down to...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition?
X/10
Recently, we crossed one of the last remaining Wii U winners off our Switch port list thanks to the arrival of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. We'd waited a long time to extol the virtues of this excellent entry to people who never picked up a Wii U, and the wait, thankfully, was worth it. PJ awarded the Switch edition an...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th March)
A storm is coming...
We're here, everyone. The last weekend before Nintendo's big Switch 2 Direct. Give yourselves a pat on the back - we made it. As for this week..? Well, it was super quiet, nothing happened, man. Heh, only kidding, we had another Nintendo Direct. It was quite the surprise, but it was certainly packed with interesting...
Japanese Charts Xenoblade Chronicles X Arrives In Style And Sends Monster Hunter Packing
Elma's world
We got a little distracted with the Nintendo Direct yesterday and ran out of time to take a look at the latest Japanese charts — sorry! Fortunately, Famitsu's latest numbers paint a chart picture that's worth the wait. There has been quite the shake-up this week, with a bunch of newbies arriving in the top 10. Expectedly, Xenoblade...
News Digital Foundry Analyses The Tech In Xenoblade Chronicles X For Switch
"End of an era"
Following the recent release of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on the Switch, tech experts Digital Foundry have now provided an analysis of how the new version improves upon the original. In a video that narrator John Linneman calls the "end of an era" for Wii U > Switch conversions, he describes Xenoblade Chronicles...
Previews
Hands On Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - A Decade On, Mira's Still Got It
A Skell of a good time
It's been absolutely ages since we last set foot on Mira, the planet on which humanity seeks refuge from an alien threat in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It was perhaps only a year or two after the game first released on Wii U, in fact, that we last played it, and our overriding memory (besides the fact that it's incredible) is of...
About The Game
Rebuild humanity on the mysterious planet Mira in this action RPG
The year is 2054. Earth has been destroyed by an intergalactic war between two alien races, and humanity is on the brink of annihilation. A small number of survivors, aboard the USS White Whale, crash land on the vast and untamed planet Mira—and now it falls to you, as a member of BLADE, to help bring humanity back from the edge of extinction…with the aid of powerful giant robots called Skells!
The visually enhanced edition of this open-world RPG contains newly added story elements and more.
The Xenoblade Chronicles™ X: Definitive Edition game is coming to the Nintendo Switch™ system on March 20, 2025!
Take on tough foes in a robust combat system, and pilot powerful giant robots called Skells
Choose from a huge variety of special attacks, skills, and classes in a combat system that’s as deep as you want it to be. Once you’ve proven yourself to BLADE, you’ll earn the right to pilot and personalize your very own Skell—a powerful machine that can fly, transform into a vehicle for fast overland travel, and wield immense strength in combat with customizable weapons and armor.
Gather resources and take on missions to build the community of New Los Angeles
As you go about the reconstruction effort, getting to know the people of New Los Angeles (NLA), you’ll build affinity with your party members and unlock quests for gear and other rewards. Join your choice of military organization within BLADE to take on even more missions—or even team up with up to 32 players from near and far online* in Squad Tasks, Online Missions, and extra-challenging Global Nemesis Battles!
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I can't believe this is real. The switch era truly has been the best time to become a Xenoblade fan 💯
The best Xenoblade.
Hopefully they improve the quest tracking!
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