Xenoblade Chronicles X Review Reason to Buy Nintendos Wii U
The good Huge and beautifully realized world to explore, excellent gameplay systems work well together The bad Insufficient documentationand this is a game that could use a better manual Bottom line Hands-down the best roleplaying game of 2015, Forty-six hours of your life feels like plenty to surrender to any video game. And yet if I'm reading Xenoblade Chronicles Xs numbers right, I've chewed through less than half its alien other-lands, its sweeping herds of indigenous fauna dubbed "indigens," some so enormous they blot out the sky at a hundred paces, its labyrinthine gameplay systems and its dazzling panoramas with arcing geological formations that soar above you. That you can wander anywhere your eyeballs register is only the game's surface allure, an assimilation of the Western roleplaying genre's penchant for turning players loose in freaking ginormous spaces where who-knows-what lurks around any corner. In other games, most of those places turn out to be facilebattle zoos under a patina of storytelling. Scrape it off, and you're either fighting or looking for more stuff to fight.